OSHA Introduces Severe Violator Program, Increases Civil Penalties
Every day, about 14 Americans fail to come home from work to their families. Tens of thousands die from workplace disease and more than 4.6 million workers are seriously injured on the job annually. In an effort to address these workplace safety and health concerns, OSHA is implementing a new Severe Violator Enforcement Program and increasing civil penalty amounts...
Space Research Sheds Light on Shift Work Scheduling
Researchers have developed software that uses mathematical models to help astronauts and ground support personnel better adjust to shifting work and sleep schedules. Outside the space program, the software could help people who do shift or night work or who experience jet lag due to travel across time zones...
Make Safety Training More Effective
Training is a critical part of workplace safety. It can help ensure employees are up to date on the latest safety practices, motivate employees to always work safely and bring new workers on board with the company’s safety practices and procedures...
OSHA Introduces New Strategic Plan
As part of the Department of Labor’s (DOL) new 6-year strategic plan, OSHA unveiled its goals, strategies and approaches for improving workplace safety and health, with a focus on enforcement, reducing fatalities, maintaining a strong outreach and education program, improving “voice in the workplace” and more...
EHS Today Editor Participates in a New Worker Health and Safety Campaign
Each day, 16 Americans are killed on the job. Brave New Foundation has launched a new worker health and safety campaign, highlighting the weak enforcement mechanisms and poor deterrents currently in place in worker safety laws. EHS Today Editor Sandy Smith was interviewed for the video...
Lead and Motivate – Not Just Your Team, But Yourself Too
As a business leader, you know one of your key tasks is to keep your team motivated. To do so, you constantly need to remind your people of the company’s vision, hold them accountable to targets and goals, mentor them and support them in their work. But how does the one who motivates others every day stay motivated as well...
The Weakness Trap
What is the best thing to do with a weakness? According to the Gallup Poll data, the most successful managers don't normally try to fix an employee's weakness. Instead, they work around it, even ignore it, if possible...
Cost of Conflict: Why Silence Is Killing your Bottom Line
New research reveals employees waste an average of $1,500 and an 8-hour workday for every crucial conversation they avoid. These costs skyrocket when multiplied by the prevalence of conflict avoidance...
Managing Safety: What ORC Said 'When OSHA Listens'
The OSHA Listens forum, along with other steps being undertaken and considered by OSHA, are encouraging signs that the agency is willing to engage more meaningfully with its stakeholders in the policy and program development process. Deepening stakeholder engagement with OSHA, in the view of ORC, is essential if new ways are to be found to improve worker safety and health...
Assessing Your Safety Culture in Seven Simple Steps
The American inventor W. Daniel Hillis said, “There are two ways to build complex things: engineering and evolution.”...
Searching for America’s Safest Companies
Over 100 companies have been recognized by EHS Today as America’s Safest. Large, small or somewhere in between and spread out all over the country, these companies represent what is best in safety in the United States, and provide more than 1 million workers with a safe work environment...
Flip-Flops vs. Gray Hair: Managing Generation Clashes in the Workplace
In one corner of the office we have an experienced, competitive baby boomer. In the other, a confident, multi-tasking Generation Y employee who expects to shoot to the top and then move on – all while wearing flip-flops. When they meet, expect fireworks...
OSHA Listens: Stakeholders Weigh in on VPP, Alliance Programs
During the March 4 OSHA Listens public meeting, safety stakeholders defended the Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP) and implored the agency not to drop the program’s funding or compromise its future...
OSHA Listens: Panel Discusses OSHA Enforcement, Outreach
As part of its March 4 “OSHA Listens” public meeting, OSHA Administrator David Michaels and other agency personnel met with stakeholders from a wide range of groups to discuss key issues facing the agency...
NATE Launches First-of-its-Kind Hazard Recognition Guide
The National Association of Tower Erectors (NATE) has launched the first-of-its-kind, tower-site Hazard Recognition Guide to continue to improve safety on broadcast and communications tower sites...
How Supervisors Can Promote and Manage Safety in Operations
By understanding two fundamental questions and leading by example, supervisors can encourage their employees to work safely, according to Paul D. Balmert, a consultant with years of experience as a line manager in the chemical industry. In an interview with EHS Today, Balmert discussed managing safety in operations and offered some practical tips for supervisors...
PureSafety and EHS Today Launch Future Leaders in EHS
PureSafety, a leading provider of results-driven software and information solutions for work force safety and health, and EHS Today announced the launch of Future Leaders in EHS. This program offers a $5,000 scholarship, resources and expertise to universities and students...
Abusive Bosses, If Productive, Don’t Suffer Consequences
According to a new study by University of Iowa researchers, supervisors who are productive have a long leash when it comes to bad behavior...
ASSE Member, Safety Professional Dies in Connecticut Plant Explosion
The American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) was saddened by the sudden loss of Chris Walters, an ASSE member since 1981 who worked as a safety professional for more than 20 years. Walters died Feb. 7 in a power plant explosion in Middletown, Conn., where he was working as a contract safety manager...
VPPPA: Despite Budget Concerns, VPP Will Continue to Thrive
Following the release of the OSHA FY 2011 budget request, which proposes reduced funding for compliance assistance programs, the Voluntary Protection Programs Participants’ Association Inc. (VPPPA) produced a video message stressing that the Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP) will continue to thrive even as the agency’s focus turns to enforcement...
Top Three Myths about Workplace Injuries
How many times have you heard people saying something completely ridiculous or that you know just isn’t right? You don’t have to go very far these days to encounter such statements...
ASSE Announces its Top Legislative and Regulatory Issues for 2010
The American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) says that 12 key issues will dominate announced its legislative and regulatory agenda for 2010, which is aimed at ensuring that advances in occupational safety and health legislation and regulation reflect the experience, expertise and best practices of ASSE’s member environment, health and safety (EHS) professionals...
Cultivating an Actively Caring Culture: The Courage and Compassion of an Injury-Free Workplace
Martin Luther King Jr. said, “It may be that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition is not the blaring noisiness of the so-called bad people, but the appalling silence of the so-called good people.”...
Managing Safety: Eight Ways to Create a Broken Safety Culture
Sometimes, the best way to know what action will lead to the desired state is to first understand what not to do...
Understanding Influences on Risks: A Four-Part Model
There remains in safety a rather naïve assumption that if we could simply get workers to do their jobs safely, the accidents would go away. If workers were the only variable in the safety formula, this would be true...
Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | Next
