Managing Safety: S.T.E.P.S. (Strategic Targets for Excellent Performance in Safety)
A new safety management process is designed to fit into existing structure and facilitate the selection and accomplishment of basic units of safety improvement...
Transformational Leadership: The Key to World-Class Safety
There is no finite description of what entails world-class safety, but there is one characteristic that absolutely is essential, and that is the engagement of the work force in the safety process. Transformational leadership is the key to engagement...
The 50 People Who Most Influenced EHS in 2010-11
Here’s a quick look at those individuals whom the editors of EHS Today feel had the most impact on occupational safety, health, the environment and risk management in 2010-11...
Safety – A View from the Top
An employee’s amputation alerted this CEO to the fact that his company had some serious safety challenges...
The Key to Managing Human Error at Work: Engagement
A worker makes a mistake on the job and causes an accident. He’s at fault, right? Not necessarily. One expert suggests that instead of playing the blame game, employers can more successfully manage human error by engaging workers in safety practices...
Screening Employees To Avoid Workplace Violence
A Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) workplace violence survey found that more than 50 percent of the respondents were concerned that workplace violence might occur at their organization...
Report Slams Massey Energy for Its Role in Upper Big Branch Mine Explosion
An independent investigative panel has released a report calling the fatal Upper Big Branch Mine explosion a “predictable result for a company that ignored basic safety standards and put too much faith in its own mythology.”...
OSHA Seeks Input from Employers through Anonymous, Voluntary Survey
OSHA announced it will survey thousands of employers this summer in efforts to improve its future rules, compliance assistance and outreach efforts...
AIHce 2011: The Ins and Outs of I2P2 and Worker Involvement
The Injury and Illness Prevention Program (I2P2) is still considered OSHA’s top rulemaking priority and safety stakeholders and businesses alike are curious what, exactly, would make up the rule’s content and scope. Several leaders discussed I2P2 in a roundtable discussion May 16 at AIHce in Portland, Oregon...
Salute Your EHS Professional on May 4
On May 4, EHS professionals’ hard work and dedication to workplace safety will be honored as part of Occupational Safety and Health Professionals (OSHP) Day...
Will Your Boss Soar or Sink?
Dr. Linda Henman has helped executives in military organizations, small businesses and Fortune 500 companies define their direction and select the best people to put their strategies in motion. According to Henman, there are five ways to tell if your company’s CEO earns his or her pay...
MassCOSH: 47 Massachusetts Workers Died on the Job in 2010; Improved Safety Oversight Needed
The 2011 “Dying for Work in Massachusetts: Loss of Life and Limb in Massachusetts Workplaces” report documents the 47 worker fatalities that occurred in the commonwealth in 2010 and calls for improved oversight and safety precautions to prevent on-the-job deaths...
Workers’ Memorial Day: Death on the Job: AFL-CIO Releases Annual Report
Think about it: An average of 12 workers are killed per day. If those 12 people all died in the same workplace incident – or in some type of tragedy in our hometown – it would make a significant impact on us. But unless you’re a co-worker, friend or family member of one of those 12 workers killed across the country today, those deaths will slip past with relatively little notice...
Safety Center Stresses Need for International Construction Safety Training
The director of University of California San Diego Extension’s International Safety Education Institute (ISEI) Construction Workplace Safety Training Program stressed a growing international need for safety training based on OSHA standards to better protect construction workers around the world...
Are You Managing Workplace Conflicts Properly?
It’s the classic joke: Boss yells at worker, worker goes home and yells at wife, wife yells at kids, kids yell at dog. For many of us, conflict – and a bad day – starts in the morning with the kids before we go to work, then kicks into second gear with your co-workers or your boss and finally culminates at home with your spouse and children...
Legislators: Codifying VPP Will Lead to Better Relationship Between Business and OSHA
Legislators on both side of the aisle have introduced legislation that would codify OSHA’s Voluntary Protection Programs. The legislation, S. 807, sponsored in the Senate by Sen. Michael B. Enzi, R –Wyo., and Sen. Mary Landrieu, D – La., was introduced April 13. Similar legislation, H.R. 1511, was introduced in the House by Rep. Tom Petri, R-Wisc., senior Republican on the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training, and Rep. Gene Green, D-Texas...
Respond to Workers’ Angry Outbursts with Compassion for Best Results
If an employee has an emotional, angry outburst at work, simply firing him may not solve the greater underlying problem in the workplace. One expert challenges traditional views of workplace anger by suggesting that these intense displays of emotion actually can be beneficial when they are met with compassion...
We Remember: One Year After Upper Big Branch Explosion
Within days of each other, two landmark workplace safety tragedies were commemorated: March 25 marked the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York, in which 146 garment workers died, and April 5 marks the one-year anniversary of the explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia, in which 29 miners died...
Safety Beyond Compliance
A “lean” approach to safety builds a culture that engages the entire workforce in seeking out and removing injury risks...
CSB Chairperson Calls on Industry to Invest in Preventive Maintenance
Marking the 1year anniversary of the tragic accident at the Tesoro Refinery in Anacortes, Washington, the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) released a video safety message in which Chairperson Rafael Moure-Eraso urges refinery companies to “make the investments necessary to ensure safe operations,” concluding, “Companies that continue to invest in safety and recognize its importance will reap benefits far into the future.”...
Drive with Caution in Highway Work Zones; National Work Zone Safety Week Begins April 4
As we celebrate National Work Zone Safety Week, we must remember that 115 construction workers lost their lives in 2009 (the last year for which figures are available) in road construction zones. Some 667 motorists also lost their lives in highway work zones that same year...
Too Many New Regulations? It's Time to Engage C-Level Consultants
In a climate of close scrutiny and hefty fines across all aspects of environmental, health and safety operations, securing experts along the way has become a reality for nearly all of us...
Sandy Says: 10 Years of America’s Safest Companies
Since 2002, EHS Today has chosen companies we feel represents the safest operations the United States has to offer. But what do you think...
Managing Safety: Safety Culture: A Matter of Characteristics or Capabilities?
The goal of forming a safety culture is to get better safety results. It could be argued that certain characteristics make a culture more likely to get better results, but the results will come from the culture’s capabilities, not its characteristics...
Experimental Analysis of Tools used for Estimating Risk Associated with Industrial Machine
The IRSST (Institut de recherché Robert-Sauvé en santé et en sécurité du travail) has published a new study that analyzes a selected sample of 31 risk estimation tools associated with industrial machines...
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