OSHA Seeking Proposals for $6.9 Million in New Safety and Health Training Grants
Nonprofit organizations, including community-based and faith-based organizations, are eligible to apply for the new grants. The grants are targeted to...
Preparing for Anything in a Challenging New World!
By Casey Hayes The events of Sept. 11, 2001 changed many things. The notion of honor in conflict was lost forever, as was the separation of targeting...
Preaching or Teaching: The Use of Narrative in Safety Training
When I turned 16, I signed up for a driver's education class at my high school. We had hours of classroom education, hours of simulator training and a...
ASSE: Eliminating Occupational Safety and Health Training Program Would Hurt New York Workers
Pataki's recent budget proposal would effectively eliminate this program by providing less than half the funding currently available to continue safety...
Environmental Education Foundation Offering Webcast Training on Mold Awareness
EEF's Webcast events offer participants a means of receiving training without leaving the comfort of their home or office. Participants pre-register with...
Evacuation: What We Can - and Cannot - Learn from Hurricanes
Somewhere downtown, people are falling to the ground. Within minutes, the first patrol car pulls up. It's obvious there's been some kind of release, but...
What the Pros Say About Training the Trainer
Realistic training conditions bring together learning and doing. Here, FEMA and Los Angeles teams practice rescue techniques. The National Emergency Training...
Listening to Experience: 10 Steps to Successful Online Training
The environmental, health and safety industry continues to undergo a technological transition in the delivery of employee training. As technology advances,...
Do responders know enough chemistry to do their jobs?
Do first responders and even Hazmat team members know enough chemistry to do their jobs effectively? "Not at all," says DuPont Co. senior emergency response...
Finally, A Stress Program Designed for First Responders
by Alan S. Brown It's inevitable. Any serious police movie or television program shows cops drinking. Knotted together around the bar in a close-knit...
The First 48 Hours: Things to do When Disaster Strikes
by Alan S. Brown First responders usually measure events by hours. But sometimes incidents spiral out of control. A hurricane batters a coastal community....
Homeland Security Programs Teach Fundamental Lessons
by Alan S. Brown Even before 9/11, the Office of Domestic Preparedness (ODP) funded a broad range of training and exercises to help states respond to...
Model with Care
Exposure modeling is no substitute for air monitoring. I didn't think I needed to say this in my May and June columns on modeling software. Unfortunately,...
Computers: Model Magic
by Michael J. Blotzer, MS, CIH, CSP Models have been used for centuries to evaluate and refine designs before construction and production. Models help...
Outbreak: What a Real Bioterrorism Incident Would Look Like
by Alan S. Brown It might take a week or longer for the first symptoms to show. And because the early stages of many bioterror agents look like the flu,...
Safety Training for Diverse Worker Populations
From construction sites to manufacturing plants, America's blue-collar work force stands as a testament to diversity. Yet behind the scenes, the idea...
You Can Take it With You
Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) are more than schedule and contact management tools. Safety, health and environmental professionals increasingly use...
Massive Response Speeds Amtrak Rescue
By Alan S. Brown At 1:55 p.m. on Monday, July 29, Amtrak's east-bound Capitol Limited rocketed off its tracks in Kensington, Md., 12 miles outside of...
On the Road Training Takes Some Unusual Twists and Turns for Smith System
Texas-based Smith System Driver Improvement Inc. recently encountered some very unusual conditions while delivering its driver training programs around...
EHS Online Services: The Free Stuff
"The most dramatic way the Internet has changed the safety, health and environmental professionals do their jobs is it provides fast access to key information,...
Safety Managers Turning to Web-based MSDSs
'Safety professionals increasingly are turning to Web-based material safety data sheets (MSDSs) to provide them with easy access to hazmat safety information,...
Desktop Video, Anyone?
by Michael Blotzer The history of computing is continual technological advances driving the evolution of more powerful, smaller, better-connected, easier...
Training for the Safety Committee
A well-trained safety committee is a very valuable tool to help management provide a safe workplace for employees and improve the bottom line of any company,...
Safety Training Gets Wired
The Internet revolution not only has changed the way the world views electronic commerce, or e-commerce, but also e-learning at all levels. While some...
