April is National Safe Digging Month
With the arrival of spring, many homeowners are gearing up for outdoor home improvement projects. To help protect these homeowners from possible hazards they may face while installing new decks or gardens, the Common Ground Alliance (CGA) is coordinating National Safety Digging Month, an awareness event designed to increase the practice of safe digging across the nation...
Four Missing Coal Miners Found Dead, MSHA to Investigate
Rescuers, family members and the Montcoal, W.Va., community had their worst fears confirmed when the remaining four missing coal miners in the Massey Energy mine explosion were found dead April 10, raising the total fatality count to 29. MSHA has launched a comprehensive investigation of the explosion...
Expert: Deadly W.Va. Mining Accident Reminiscent of Past Disaster
An expert from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), who draws comparisons between the April 5 Massey Energy mining disaster in West Virginia and one of the nation’s deadliest mining accidents in history, calls for today’s mine safety regulations to be re-evaluated...
OSHA Issues Shipbreaking Safety Document
OSHA has published an online Safe Work Practices in Shipbreaking document to help protect shipbreaking workers from injury and death and to outline employers’ obligations for providing safe work environments for their employees...
W.Va. Mine Rescuers Driven Back By Fire as Hope Fades
Rescuers searching for four missing miners trapped in the Upper Big Branch South coal mine in Whitesville, W.Va., were forced to retreat early April 9 because of smoke from what appears to be an active fire deep in the mine. Before turning back, rescuers were able to get close enough to one of two emergency chambers to determine that it had not been used...
Deteriorating Air Quality in W. Va. Mine Forces Rescuers to Turn Back
Rescuers continue to be thwarted in their attempts to locate four miners still missing in the blast at the Upper Big Branch South Mine in Whitesville, W. Va. Twenty-five miners are confirmed dead following an April 5 explosion, and until April 8, rescuers were unable to continue their search because of the buildup of hazardous gases in the mine...
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...
25 Die in W.Va. Coal Mine Explosion, 4 Still Missing
Twenty-five miners are confirmed dead and four are still missing at the Massey Energy Co.’s Upper Big Branch Mine-South in Whitesville, W.Va., where an April 5 explosion led to the worst coal mining disaster in the United States in the last 25 years...
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...
Lockout/Tagout Compliance: Getting the Most from Your Lockout/Tagout Program
There’s no way to write a policy that covers every possible lockout/tagout scenario. In the third and final installment in our lockout/tagout series, discover how to create a balance between a program that is too restrictive and one that doesn’t go far enough to protect employees...
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...
Sandy Says: Searching for America's Safest Companies
Let me say right off the bat that I don’t believe in “accidents” when it comes to workplace safety. Nothing that causes harm or injury in the workplace is an “accident;” it’s a breakdown in communication, caring, attention and training...
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.”...
NSC Releases White Paper on Brain Distraction During Cell Phone Use While Driving
The National Safety Council (NSC) recently released a white paper describing the risks of using a cell phone while driving. The paper addresses the lack of understanding about the dangers of using cell phones and hands-free devices while behind the wheel...
Obama Announces New CSB Nominees
On March 22, President Barack Obama announced his intent to nominate Dr. Rafael Moure-Eraso and Mark Griffon to the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB). Moure-Eraso was nominated to be chair of the board...
N.Y. Labor Department Commemorates Anniversary of Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Tragedy
March 25 marks the 99th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire, which led to the tragic death of 146 garment workers and prompted the development of worker protections...
Fifth Anniversary of Fatal BP Explosion Remembered
On March 23, 2005, tragedy struck BP’s Texas City, Texas, refinery when a cloud of hydrocarbon vapor exploded, killing 15 workers and injuring more than 180 others. Perhaps the real tragedy is that federal investigators believe that the accident – like so many other workplace accidents – was entirely avoidable...
Car Talk, University of Utah Launch Driver Distraction Web Site
NPR’s Car Talk guys, Tom and Ray Magliozzi, may be a couple of motor mouths, but they always put a lid on using cell phones behind the wheel. The perennial jokesters recently teamed with the University of Utah to launch the Driver Distraction Center at their Web site...
OSHA Launches Electric Power Safety eTool
Approximately 80 workers die from electric shock each year while working on electrical equipment or related utility operations. To help prevent such deaths, OSHA recently published the Electric Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution Standard eTool...
House Hearing Focuses on Protecting America’s Workers Act, OSHA Penalties
In a March 16 hearing, witnesses told the U.S. House of Representatives Education and Labor Committee’s Subcommittee on Workforce Protections that legislation to strengthen and modernize workplace health and safety laws will save lives and hold employers accountable if they knowingly put their workers in danger...
Protecting Nurses from Workplace Violence
Health care organizations must establish a zero tolerance policy for violence against nurses to protect employees and the quality of patient care, according to Jean Henry, an assistant professor of health science at the University of Arkansas...
At-Home Safety: Preventing Head Injuries
In honor of March’s designation as National Brain Injury Awareness Month, Dr. Todd Trask, a neurosurgeon at the Methodist Neurological Institute, offers tips on how to protect the head and prevent injuries...
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