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...
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...
Nurturing and Celebrating Our Future Leaders
It’s not enough to ensure that our workplaces are safe today. We have to ensure they will be safe in 10, 20 or 30 years, when we’re not around anymore...
ASSE Works to Align Safety with Green Initiatives
As businesses, schools and communities go green, American Society of Safety Engineers’ (ASSE) occupational safety and health professional members are working with their organizations to incorporate safety practices in line with green initiatives...
OSHA Releases Workplace Injury and Illness Information
For the first time, OSHA has made the work-related injury and illness data collected from more than 80,000 employers from 1996 to 2007 available in a searchable online database, allowing the public to look at establishment or industry-specific injury and illness data...
Updated OSHA Guidance Aims to Protect Late-Night Retail Workers from Workplace Violence
OSHA recently updated its guidance document “Recommendations for Workplace Violence Prevention Programs in Late-Night Retail Establishments” that addresses issues causing late-night retail workers to be killed on the job...
At-Home Safety: Protecting Eyes from the Sun with Contact Lenses
A new study reported in Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science found that UV-blocking contact lenses may reduce or eliminate the effects of the sun’s harmful UV radiation...
New Report Address Work-Life Conflict Across Income Levels
On Jan. 25, the Center for American Progress and the Center for WorkLife Law at the UC Hastings College of the Law released a new report that analyzes the struggle millions of American families face in attempting to balance work and life responsibilities...
CSB Investigates Lab Explosion at Texas Tech University
The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) recently announced it will investigate the causes of a Jan. 7 explosion that severely injured a graduate student at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas...
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...
OSHA Solicits Comments from Stakeholders, Plans Public Meeting
OSHA recently announced a Feb. 10 “OSHA Listens” public meeting in Washington, D.C., designed to solicit comments and suggestions from OSHA stakeholders on key issues facing the agency...
ISEA Announces Updated Standard for High-Vis Safety Apparel
An updated national consensus standard for high-visibility safety apparel from the International Safety Equipment Association (ISEA) now includes service-life guidelines and provides criteria and test requirements for garments marked as flame- or water-resistant...
Texas Sees Rise in Motorcycle Deaths Following Repeal of Helmet Law
The 1997 repeal of a Texas motorcycle helmet law has been followed by a sharp increase in the state’s fatal motorcycle crashes, according to a study in the January issue of Southern Medical Journal...
2010 Highway Safety Report: Which States Make the Grade?
On Jan. 11, highway safety advocates released the seventh annual report grading states on their performance on adopting and maintaining model traffic safety laws. This year, the report focused on text messaging, graduated driving licensing (GDL) programs and ignition interlock laws for drunk driving offenders...
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.”...
Illinois Bans Texting While Driving
Beginning Jan. 1, texting while driving officially is banned in Illinois. The state joins 18 other states and the District of Columbia in banning drivers from text messaging while driving...
ASSE Recalls Dedication, Accomplishments of Former Executive Director Judy Neel Murphy
The American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) announced the death of former ASSE Executive Director Judy Neel Murphy, who passed away Dec. 23, 2009 in Chicago...
OSHA fines Huntington, W.Va., Printing Company nearly $160,000 for Workplace Hazards
OSHA has cited Chapman Printing Co. for workplace safety and health violations. Proposed penalties total $158,400. OSHA initiated its inspection on June 18 in response to a formal complaint...
The Basics of Lockout/Tagout Compliance: Creating an Effective Program
In part 1 of a three-part series about lockout/ tagout compliance, the author examines the importance of lockout/tagout and the components of an effective program...
Choosing and Maintaining Emergency Eyewashes/Showers
In many industrial workplaces, the threat of eye, face and skin contamination is an ongoing concern, despite the many innovations designed to keep workers safe...
Sandy Says: Winners and Losers
Whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game. Or is it...
Five Ways to Weather Winter Workouts
Winter weather doesn’t have to derail your exercise routine. As you adjust to darker days, colder temperatures and slippery surfaces, however, it’s important to be mindful of safety issues that come with the territory of winter workouts...
Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions for Job Seekers
Millions of Americans will be job hunting in 2010, and for many of those who currently are unemployed, the search will mark the continuation of a long and unsuccessful journey...
New Year’s: A Deadly Time for Pedestrians
Every year, New Year’s partiers are inundated with warnings about the risks of drinking and driving. Little is discussed, however, about the risks of drinking and walking, which can be just as dangerous, said trauma surgeon Dr. Thomas Esposito at Loyola University Health System...
2009 Holiday Safety: The Pet Lover’s Safety Guide
When considering safety precautions during the holidays, don’t forget about some of the most cherished members of the family – your pets. Just as you must take steps to protect young children, extra measures must be taken to ensure your pets remain healthy and safe during the holidays...
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