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. ...
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...
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...
Report: Trucking Industry Has High Rate of Workplace Injuries, Costs
The report, Preventing Injuries in the Trucking Industry Focus Report (http://www.lni.wa.gov/Safety/Research/Files/Trucking/PreventingTruckingInjuries.pdf),...
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,...
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,...
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...
Trust in Communication Key to Workplace Safety
I think this study shows the importance of paying attention to the safety efficacy beliefs of individual workers, said Kevin Real, Ph.D., from the University...
The U.S. Fire Administration Releases Latest Firefighter Fatality Report
The report, which can be found at http://www.usfa.dhs.gov/fireservice/fatalities/statistics/report.shtm, continues a series of annual studies by the USFA...
Expert's Seven Ways to Succeed at Office Politics
While playing office politics frequently is perceived as a negative action, it also has a very strong upside. The key to successfully navigating your way through the propaganda lies with making the system “for” you rather than against you...
The National Safety Survey: You Talk and We Listen
The greatest EHS challenge for Gregory Havel, safety director at Scherrer Construction Co. Inc. in Burlington, Wisc., is what he perceives as the adversarial...
Awareness Is Key to Avoid Lift Truck Accidents
What Hyster Co. learned about lift truck and pedestrian accidents can assist safety managers in deciding how to equip lift trucks for their particular...
International Safety: New Report Highlights Dangerous Coping Responses for Work Stress
The report highlights the high levels of stress felt in many industries and the often unhealthy ways in which workers respond. The Stroke in Business...
Smurfit-Stone Facilities Win Honors From the Pulp & Paper Safety Association
Smurfit-Stone is extremely proud of its safety record and of the employees at these facilities, said President and COO Steven J. Klinger. We take great...
Highway Safety Group Rejects Calls for National 55 mph Speed Limit
The solution is to properly engineer roadways to facilitate the optimum flow of traffic, a prescription that would reduce the total vehicular carbon footprint...
Industrial Laundry Trade Association Launches Nationwide Safety Initiative
UTSA President and CEO David Hobson reported that nearly 1,000 industrial laundry and linen supply plants have joined Laundry Safety ESP. These plants...
Howards Term as NIOSH Director Ends July 14
Current NIOSH Associate Director Christine Branche, Ph.D., will serve as acting director until a new director is named. According to CDC, Howard has agreed...
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