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...
At-Home Safety: Halloween Safety Tips for Families
With monsters, goblins and superheroes descending on homes everywhere, parents must be on the lookout for possible safety hazards to ensure their children can have a fun, healthy and safe Halloween...
OSHA Proposes Rulemaking for Combustible Dust Standard
OSHA published an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) in the Oct. 21 edition of the Federal Register as an initial step in development of a standard to address the hazards of combustible dust...
CSB Releases Imperial Sugar Dust Explosion Safety Video
On Oct. 7, the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) released a new, 9-minute safety video on the combustible dust explosion at the Imperial Sugar refinery in Port Wentworth, Ga., which claimed the lives of 14 workers, injured 36 and caused extensive property damage on Feb. 7, 2008...
Oct. 18-24 is National Teen Driver Safety Week
National Teen Driver Safety Week (NTDSW) will be held Oct. 18-24 as a time for communities, schools and families to raise awareness and provide solutions to teen driver crashes, the leading cause of death for teens in the United States...
OSHA Emphasizes Safety Resources for Grain Handling Operators
After a recent increase in the number of workers killed while performing grain handling operations such as loading, emptying and cleaning storage bins, OSHA is reminding employers and workers of available resources and standards that identify hazards and offer solutions to prevent fatalities...
Coal Mining Hazard Resembles Explosive Volcanic Eruption
Worldwide, thousands of workers die every year from mining accidents, and instantaneous coal outbursts in underground mines are among the major killers...
ASSE Urges Members, Employers To Address Distracted Driving
As transportation crashes continue to be the number one cause of on-the-job deaths in the United States, causing 2,053 workplace fatalities in 2007, the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) offered a series of recommendations to address the issue...
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...
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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...
OSHA Launches National Emphasis Program on Recordkeeping
On Oct. 1, OSHA announced it is initiating a national emphasis program (NEP) on recordkeeping to assess the accuracy of injury and illness data recorded by employers...
Are Your Employees Safe When Working on Energized Electrical Systems?
Electrical work can be intimidating to safety managers. As a result, you may not always know whether maintenance workers or contract electricians are working as safely as possible...
Managing Safety: Unions and Behavior-Based Safety: The 7 Deadly Sins
Perceived by some as union unfriendly, behavior-based safety methods have been successfully applied at a number of union sites. Learn the keys to making it work...
Networking Safety - Having Your Cake and Eating It Too
Unfortunately, properly designed safety implementations using light curtains, e-stops and door interlock switches based on traditional techniques using...
Businesses Confirm Value of Corporate Citizenship, Sustainability
The results of a 2009 corporate citizenship survey reveal that despite the recession, corporate citizenship practices, including sustainability, are ingrained in increasing numbers of American businesses...
NIST Develops New Beryllium Reference Material for Occupational Safety Monitoring
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in collaboration with private industry and other government agencies, have produced a new reference material for beryllium that more closely mimics the form of beryllium workers are exposed to in the field...
OSHA Awards $6.8 Million in Training Grants
On Sept. 18, OSHA awarded more than $6.8 million in Susan Harwood Training Grants to 30 recipients, including labor unions, employer associations, colleges, universities and other nonprofit organizations, in support of workplace safety and health programs...
Safety and the Science of Human Behavior
In an interview with EHS Today, leadership expert Dr. Aubrey C. Daniels discussed positive reinforcement, realistic safety goals, incentives and how the science of behavior can impact workplace safety. ...
MSHA Awards $500,000 in Mine Safety Grants
The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) recently announced awarded $500,000 in grant funds to six organizations that provide education and training within the mining industry...
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