New Study Details Effects of Workplace Conflict on Businesses
According to a new report, workplace conflict is rampant throughout the business world, with U.S. companies spending more than 2.8 hours per employee per week dealing with conflict, which equates to approximately $359 billion in paid hours in 2008. ...
NIOSH Works to Advance the “Business Case” for Job Safety, Health
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and the Williams College of Business of Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio, are partnering under a new Memorandum of Understanding to advance the “business case” for the pivotal role that occupational safety and health consideration plays in corporate strategy and planning. ...
Seven Decades of Safety
The magazine's first publisher, Irving Hexter, noted in the first issue of Occupational Hazards and Safety, Each stride of modern industry towards faster,...
Seven Decades of Safety: Asbestos Becomes a Menace
Dr. Irving J. Selikoff told more than 400 scientists at the Conference on the Biological Effects of Asbestos in October 1964 that asbestos was killing workers...
Seven Decades of Safety: Good Times Take Their Toll
Americans entered the late 1940s and early 1950s as the heroes of World War II. Patriotism and democractic fervor were at an all-time high. The economy...
Seven Decades of Safety: Bhopal's Legacy: New Vigilance in the Chemical Industry
Chemical industry experts consider the tragic events of 14-years ago in Bhopal to be the biggest wake-up call of all time. Chemical companies undertook a massive reexamination of their safety practices when a Union Carbide pesticide producing plant emitted a highly toxic cloud of methyl isocyanate (MIC) onto the densely populated region of Bhopal in central India...
Seven Decades of Safety: Reform and Reinvention
The November 1994 congressional election marked a dramatic turning point in the political fortunes of OSHA. For years, powerful Democratic committee chairmen...
Seven Decades of Safety: Anatomy of a Tragedy
Time after time, those of us in the safety community read about workplace injuries and fatalities that were completely preventable. Had Company X just...
Speaking Out: Doing the Right Thing (And Doing It Successfully)
Some EHS professionals strongly object to the amount of regulation in their industry, or to specific requirements. Others are frustrated by the hoops...
Seven Decades of Safety: Fighting Two Wars
It was the known as the king of occupational diseases, said Gerald Markowitz, a professor of history at John Jay College in New York. In the mid-1930s,...
Safety Tips for Hurricane Cleanup and Recovery
Insurance provider Zurich suggests organizations begin salvage operations after conducting an initial damage assessment and securing the facilities. Salvage operations may range from securing undamaged equipment and goods to salvaging electronic equipment, documents, furniture and other items. ...
Report Evaluates NIOSH Injury Prevention Program
This report is the latest in a series resulting from independent scientific evaluations undertaken through the Institute of Medicine and the National...
Drop in California Cash Benefits Lowers U.S. Workers Comp Spending
The new report, Workers' Compensation: Benefits, Coverage and Costs, 2006, is the eleventh in a NASI series that provides comprehensive national data...
Off-the-Job Safety: Keep Eyes Safely On The Ball
Noah was 7 years old when an errant paintball smashed into his left eye and sent him from the sidelines of his brothers game to the emergency room. I...
What Does Safety Success Look Like?
The surface definition of safety success on most safety professionals’ minds is simply a reduction in the failure rate. We have been so busy avoiding failure that we need to remind ourselves what success looks like. The word “success” tends to surface every time the accident rates go down, but does the lack of accidents really equate to safety success? ...
Avoiding an Accident Excuse Pile-Up
Last week, his leg fell asleep. Just the other day, a bug flew in his eye and caused temporary disorientation. And today, his newest excuse was that he had a sneezing spell and couldn’t keep his eyes open long enough to see the wall. ...
Hazardous Energy
These are not the words of J. Wellington Wimpy from Popeye. This is the sentiment, and career strategy, of a safety coordinator in California. This approach to the “profession” has become commonplace. ...
The Contribution of Supervisors and Middle Managers to Safety Performance
Safety ultimately is about what happens in the workplace. When leaders set the directive to change the culture and lead improvement throughout the organization, it becomes imperative to transfer safety leadership principles and practices down to the site level. ...
Report: Trucking Industry Has High Rate of Workplace Injuries, Costs
Truck drivers experience some of the highest rates of workplace injuries in Washington state, according to a new report from the Department of Labor & Industries (L&I)...
Injuries Hurt: Are You Talking Too Much About Safety?
Safety managers need to understand that workers may be a little overwhelmed with all kinds of communications and distractions. But the fact is, its important to talk about safety. Injuries are a concern for everyone: They are emotional triggers, and they hurt everyone in the organization and at home. Nobody wants to see another person hurt, and nobody wants to get hurt...
Friend or Foe? Do Your Colleagues Try to Make You Look Bad on the Job?
Professionals who are sabotaged by a coworker shouldnt let the situation slide, according to respondents: Seven out of 10 said its best to confront the...
Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries Shows a Decline in Worker Deaths
This is continued evidence that the initiatives and programs to protect workers safety and health, designed by and implemented in this administration,...
OSHA Cites Deshler Foundry, Fabrication Plant for Workplace Violations
OSHA selected Cast Metals Inc. for inspection as part of a local emphasis program concentrating on the primary metal industry. As a result of its inspection,...
International Safety: Summit Encourages Safety Culture
The summit was held by New Zealands Department of Labour on Aug. 18. We want more workplaces to commit to building safer work cultures, said David Tregoweth,...
The Dos and Donts of Laying Off Employees
Paul Harvey, assistant professor of management at UNH, said that although there really is no good way to tell workers they are being laid off, employers...
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