MSHA Announces New 100 Percent Plan for Mine Inspections
The announcement of the plan was made after MSHA admitted it has fallen short on its inspection completion rate for the federal 2007 financial year, which...
Five Trapped Contractors Found Dead at Colorado Plant
According to the company, the five workers were part of a team of nine contractors from RPI Coating of Santa Fe Springs, Calif. working in a penstock...
Eight Major Mistakes (Or, What Not to Do When Workers' Compensation Rates Drop)
Throughout much of the country, declining workers compensation rates are music to employers ears. After all, that seems like long-awaited good news, particularly...
2007 National Safety Survey: Small Steps for a People Business
Is safety getting better in Americas industrial facilities, service companies and construction sites? The data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics certainly...
Behavior-Based Safety: Myth or Magic?
When it was introduced, behavior-based safety (BBS) was seen as a magic panacea for everything that ailed safety programs. It was the Swiss Army Knife...
Lean Six Sigma Innovative Safety Management
Six Sigma is a widely used, data-driven, quality improvement process. Manufacturing uses a discipline called (lean manufacturing) that focuses on process...
ASSE Encourages Miller to Take Overall Mine Safety Risks Into Account
Thompson noted in the letter that members of the ASSE's Mine Practice Specialty one of 13 practice specialties organized to help advance common principles...
ASSE Offers Tips For National Farm Safety and Health Week
Many agricultural injuries and illnesses can be prevented by taking proper measures to eliminate or protect workers from farm hazards, said Dr. Terry...
A+A: Positive Signs for European Safety Market
Zeisler said the German market for personal protective equipment grew 10.9 percent over the past 2 years, to 1.42 billion euros in 2006. He said improved...
A+A: Germany Focuses on Safety
Bruno Zwingmann, managing director of the Federal Association for Occupational Safety and Health, said the event came as government officials were working...
Survey: Half of Americans Have Experienced Workplace Bullying
The WBI survey found that an estimated 54 million employees 37 percent of U.S. workers have been bullied at some point in their work lives, while millions...
McAteer on Crandall Canyon: MSHA Responded The Best Way It Could
I think they [MSHA] weighed it the best they can, McAteer said. Given what they had to deal with, it couldn't have been any safer. However, McAteer recommended...
Union Testifies Crandall Canyon Mine Was Unsafe
According to United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) President Cecil Roberts, who testified at a hearing of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor,...
Congressman Launches Workplace Fatality Map
Miller, chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, said that the map represented approximately 10 percent of deaths that have occurred in U.S....
Leadership: The Effective Safety Leader: Personality, Values & Emotional Commitment
When an organization focuses on safety improvement, the role of the individual leader becomes increasingly prominent, along with the need for an actionable...
Editor's Notebook: Thanks, but No Thanks
My grandfather was a coal miner. The one thing I learned from having a grandfather who was a coal miner is that I never wanted to go into an underground...
Weaver Popcorn First to Eliminate Diacetyl From Products
Although diacetyl has long been considered safe for use in consumer food products, the flavoring has been cited as a possible source of injury to certain...
More Penalties for American Airlines
On July 25, when OSHA announced $231,000 in proposed penalties for workplace safety violations, the agency selected American Airlines for a health inspection...
Legislators Seek Investigation into Utah Mine Disaster
In a letter sent to Labor Secretary Elaine Chao, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions,...
California Comp Rate Drop Alters National Figures
According to NASI, the drop in compensation payments by California employers probably were the result of recent reform bills passed in the state in 2003...
Cancerous Agents, Air Pollutants in Nanotube Byproducts
Study co-author Desire Plata and colleagues revealed the results of their research at the national meeting of the American Chemical Society, describing...
ASSE Prez Applauds Lower Fatality Rate
Our members everyday contribute to creating, through prevention efforts, a workplace that is injury- and illness-free. Business and labor must continue...
Driving Continuous Improvement in Plant Safety
The performance-punishing nature of poor workplace design is a persistent issue filled with musculoskeletal injuries and rising medical care costs. Many...
Active Agenda: Partnerships
Written by Ira and George Gershwin, and made famous by Fred Astaire, this verse finds its way into our email inbox on a regular basis. Not too surprising,...
After Disaster Strikes: Lessons Learned From the Gulf Coast
When referring to the lessons learned after Hurricane Katrina, many have compared the response efforts and the disaster itself to the events of Sept....
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