NSCs McMillan to Retire
Every day I am humbled by the commitment of Council staff, our board leadership, and the volunteer spirit of the more than 50,000 companies, unions and...
Start 2008 With a Safety Audit
The American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) points out that an audit program is an important tool that can protect workers and identify safety hazards...
Active Agenda: Incident Reporting and Response
This was Merv Griffins contact policy. He retired as a talk show host in 1986. I suspect his name still may be listed in the studios incident response...
New Direction Drives Safety Success at APAC-Missouri
By Debora Babin Katz and Jon Kaufman By the winter of 2006, the safety culture at Oldcastle Materials APAC-Missouri division was in a precarious state....
Facing the Unthinkable: Fatality Prevention in the Workplace
No employer, family member or coworker ever wants a fatality to occur in the workplace. But it happens. In 2006 alone, 5,703 people died on the job, representing...
International OHS Through the Looking Glass of the Global Economy
The occupational health and safety conditions at the giant open-pit copper mine in Cananea, Mexico displayed how workplace safety in the global economy...
Nanotechnology Companies Need Safety Guidance
The web-based questionnaire was administered to 180 nanotechnology firm managers in the Northeast to determine the extent of their efforts to manage nanotechnology...
ANSI Appoints Board Members, Officers
Robert W. Noth will serve his third one-year term as chairman of the board and will be joined by two re-appointed vice chairmen, Arthur Cote of the National...
FLA Annual Report Reveals Health and Safety Violations
As part of FLAs Independent External Monitoring (IEM) process, independent, FLA-accredited auditors conducted the surprise inspections in 2006. The inspections...
NIOSH Science Blog Stimulates Communication
The web log is intended as a new way to help NIOSH fulfill its mission of translating research into practice for preventing work-related injuries, illnesses...
Plant Safety Tuneup
Once upon a time, checking off a box on an inspection checklist may have been enough for companies to determine that their safety equipment and machinery...
Safety Roundtable: Looking Inside the EHS Crystal Ball
Predicting the future may be an uncertain art, but Occupational Hazards cleared some of the haze by asking leading professionals what they think will...
Will You Still Need Me When I'm 64? Designing the Age-Friendly Workplace
Whether we call it the baby boom, the Age Wave1 or the Generational Storm2, there are growing numbers of seniors at work. The trend toward earlier and...
Safety: Between a 'Roc' and a Hard Place
It happens every year: Its Oct. 2 (Happy Birthday, Larry!), and the CEO having just returned from the annual board of directors Performance Improvement...
Become A Safety Leader
Developing safety leaders in your business can mean the difference between marginal and world-class results. It long has been accepted that successful...
NIOSH Survey to Fill in Gaps on Truck Driver Health and Safety
The survey aims to collect information on truck driver health, sleep disorders, fatigue, working conditions and non-fatal injuries and gain a better understanding...
UK: 36 Million Work Days Lost to Workplace Injury and Illness
Health and Safety Statistics 2006/07 reveals that the average absence per employee was 1.5 days a year, which was a significant increase from the approximately...
America's Safest Companies: Passionate about Safety
Some companies still believe that on-the-job injuries and illnesses are a cost of doing business. Our honorees see things quite differently, said Stephen...
Active Agenda: Trust Accounts
While working as an environmental health and safety manager for a large manufacturing company, I was approached by an employee who asked, Are you the...
Building Safety
You already know that safety is not only for the workplace. An injury suffered off the job keeps an employee away from work as surely as one suffered...
NSC: Stress and Sleep Deprivation in the Workplace
Rogerson presented his research at the National Safety Councils 2007 Congress and Expo in Chicago. In his study, titled Employee Perceptions of Health...
NSC: Pessimistic View of Accident Prevention Poses Hurdle to Reducing Injuries
This finding comes on the heels of an NSC injury report in June showing that accidental deaths and injuries are climbing and at current rates could hit...
Gap Analysis
Anyone working in industry is familiar with the many, and varied, opinions of auditors. Those being audited are much less familiar with receiving solutions...
America's Safest Companies: Passionate about Safety
America's Safest Companies, founded in 2002 by Occupational Hazards, a Penton Media Inc. publication, is a corporate award honoring the safest companies...
Oklahoma Court Throws Out Law Allowing Guns in the Workplace
U.S. District Judge Terence Kern issued a 93-page injunction against a law that was passed in 1994, ruling that Oklahoma's forced entry law was in conflict...
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