Accidents Waiting to Happen: The Five Crucial Conversations that Drive Workplace Safety
Discussions about the true threats to safety at your workplace might be uncomfortable, but they are crucial if you truly want to reduce workplace injuries and illnesses...
ASSE Offers Workplace Violence Prevention Tips
American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) members urged employers to take action now to reduce the incidence of homicides in their workplace...
NIOSH and Toyota Collaborate on Safety and Health Research
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc.’s (TEMA) Department of Environmental and Safety Engineering have pledged to collaborate on research “to improve the assessment, management, analysis and control of workplace conditions related to the safety and health of employees.”...
The FILM for A Cultural Snapshot
A famous philanthropist once told Gandhi that his goal was to help mankind. Realizing the impossible enormity of this goal, Gandhi asked, “Which one?”...
ASSE Safety Tips Show Motorists How to Drive Safely During Bad Weather
As transportation incidents continue to be the number one cause of on-the-job deaths in the United States, the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) is offering driving tips to help motorists navigate safely on our roads, especially during severe weather conditions...
Safety Stakeholders Welcome Michaels to OSHA
Following the Dec. 3 Senate confirmation of David Michaels, Ph.D., MPH, to become the next assistant secretary of labor for OSHA, EHS Today spoke to several safety and health association and union leaders to learn how they would receive the new OSHA administrator...
EHS TODAY ROUNDTABLE: Economics, Regulations, Connections and Mentoring
We questioned EHS leaders about current and future regulations, the issues impacting the practice of occupational health and safety and the importance of mentoring future leaders. Here is what they had to say...
Steps in Safety Strategy: Making Change Work
Improving safety continuously, rather than in fits and starts, requires ongoing mechanisms that become normal and reliable practice...
Managing the Web 2.0: Social Networking Policies
As more people turn to social networking sites and blogs to obtain information, stay connected and voice their opinions, businesses face a new set of questions and dilemmas raised by their employees’ use of such media...
Workplace Violence Takes a Deadly Toll
The violence that recently has hit our nation’s workplaces has brought an important issue to the forefront: workplace safety. In hindsight on both the Fort Hood and Orlando shootings, it’s easy to say that preventative measures could have been set into motion to avoid these tragedies...
America's Safest Companies Go Beyond Zero
AMEC Earth & Environmental Inc., the Concrete Pipe Division of CEMEX, Medtronic Inc., Morin Actuator, RQ Construction Inc., Trendmaker Homes, Trihydro Corp. and Wood Group Power Plant Services have earned the right to call themselves America’s Safest Companies...
Culture of Safety Takes Flight at McChord Air Force Base
Employers and employees all around the country can learn some safety lessons from the airmen at McChord Air Force Base in Washington state...
NSC: Selling Safety in Tough Times
Phil La Duke, director of performance improvement at O/E Learning, explained how EHS professionals can sell safety to company leadership – even in challenging economic times...
NSC: Occupational Safety and Health Under the Obama Administration
In a panel discussion at the National Safety Council (NSC) 2009 Congress and Expo in Orlando, Fla., Jordan Barab, acting assistant secretary of labor for OSHA, former OSHA Administrator John Henshaw, MPH, CIH, and NIOSH Director John Howard, M.D., JD, MPH, came together to discuss what the agency has accomplished so far and what critical areas it must focus on under the Obama administration...
NSC: A Million Acts of Safety
During the opening session of the 97th annual National Safety Council (NSC) 2009 Congress and Expo in Orlando, Fla., on Oct. 26, NSC Board Chairman Joseph Uccifero and President and CEO Janet Froetscher discussed A Million Acts of Safety, an initiative designed to save 10,000 lives and prevent 1 million injuries in the next 5 years...
NSC: Schneider Electric Receives Robert W. Campbell Award
Electric North America, a specialist in energy management, was honored with the 2009 Robert W. Campbell Award for exemplary safety and health efforts at the Oct. 26 opening session of the 97th annual NSC Congress and Expo...
America's Safest Companies Go Beyond Zero
EHS Today celebrates eight companies that have earned the right to be on the America's Safest Companies list for 2009...
Don’t Be So Touchy! The Secrets for Giving Feedback to Millennials
Brian Castro’s help desk department serves more than 1,000 computer users at his company’s corporate center. Among the 23 employees in his multi-generational staff are several Millennials (born 1980-1999) who he hired last year, fresh out of college...
New Employee Self-Help Handbook on Workplace Rights Is a Resource in Tough Economic Times
Xlibris Publishing has released a new self-help, consumer handbook on workplace rights by authors Andrew Liput and Nancy Ruddy. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Your Rights in the Workplace . . . but your Boss was afraid to tell you! offers readers easy-to-understand explanations of their rights on the job, from interview to termination, covering hostile environments, sexual harassment, age discrimination and workplace safety, among many other topics...
EPA’s Jackson Unveils Framework for Chemical Management Reform
In a recent speech at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson announced core principles that outline the Obama administration’s goals for legislative reform of this country’s chemical management law, the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)...
Keeping Employees Drug-Free
In today’s sluggish economy, most companies are exploring ways they can reduce inventory, personnel and expenses in general. But according to an executive with a Chicago construction association, many businesses may be overlooking a prime cost-saving measure: keeping employees drug-free...
Managers and Employees Differ on Frequency and Quality of Workplace Communication
Managers say they are communicating better and more often with their employees now versus 1 year ago, a new survey shows. Unfortunately, their teams may not be getting the memo...
Deer-Vehicle Collision Frequency Jumps 18 Percent in 5 Years
It’s the call of the wild, and apparently nothing, not even cars speeding along a street, can stop a buck from finding his mate. Which is why motorists need to be on alert for the next several months...
What’s the Opposite of a Pink Slip?
Kathleen P. King, Ed. D., M.Ed., professor of Education at Fordham University’s Graduate School of Education in New York City, says the opposite of a pink slip is a paycheck...
Road Safe America Launches Drive to Require Speed Governors on Big Trucks
With 400,000 truck wrecks a year, fewer crashes make everyone safer, and Road Safe America has launched a Web-based national petition drive designed to create a national groundswell of citizen demand for President Barack Obama, the Congress and the U.S. Department of Transportation to take action to require electronic speed governors on heavy commercial vehicles to be set at 65 mph or slower...
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