Training's Golden Opportunity: Using Compliance Classes to Reach Your Strategic Safety Goals
Lurking inside that required annual safety training is a golden opportunity. World-class safety organizations are increasingly utilizing safety training...
Report Released on Mitigation of the Rural Fire Problem in the U.S.
The report, Mitigation of the Rural Fire Problem Strategies Based on Original Research and Adaptation of Existing Best Practices, provides implementation...
AIHA Launches Digital Library
The library provides immediate, full-text access to all available AIHA publications, including the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene,The...
New Online Training for First Responders
While online classes will not replace traditional, classroom-based instruction taught at the National Emergency Training Center in Emmitsburg, Md., the...
Putting First Responders First
The National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) presents this Putting First Responders First conference with support from the Science and Technology...
New Direction Drives Safety Success at APAC-Missouri
By Debora Babin Katz and Jon Kaufman By the winter of 2006, the safety culture at Oldcastle Materials APAC-Missouri division was in a precarious state....
Expert Advice For Employers: Prepare for Pandemic Flu Now
Scott Mugno, FedEx Expresss managing director, corporate safety, health and fire protection, stated that as the threat of pandemic influenza was imminent,...
Fires and Floods Lead the List of Largest Red Cross Responses
While the California wildfires and major flooding captured public attention, the majority of disaster relief operations were coordinated by Red Cross...
Turning Clocks Back Increases Risk of Drowsy Driving
Once we move the clocks back, the drive home from work or school for many [is likely] in the dark, says Fraydun Manocherian, founder and chairman of NRSF,...
Active Agenda: Trust Accounts
While working as an environmental health and safety manager for a large manufacturing company, I was approached by an employee who asked, Are you the...
Building Safety
You already know that safety is not only for the workplace. An injury suffered off the job keeps an employee away from work as surely as one suffered...
House Letter Asks for OSHAs Cintas Investigation Status
Signed by subcommittee chair Lynn Woolsey D-Calif., Phil Hare D-Ill., Donald Payne D-N.J., Timothy Bishop D-N.Y. and Carol Shea Porter D-N.H., the letter...
OSHA Participating in 2007 TOPOFF 4 Exercise
The goal of the exercise is to demonstrate and evaluate short-, medium- and long-term response, recovery and remediation procedures for simulated multi-point...
OSHA Awards Susan Harwood Grants to 55 Nonprofits
Outreach and education are at the heart of our compliance assistance efforts for employers and employees, said OSHA Administrator Edwin Foulke Jr. The...
Cultural Diversity: Working with the Hispanic Population and Making It Work for You/ La Diversidad Cultural: Cmo Maximizar su Programa de Seguridad Industrial Trabajando con Empleados Hispanos
Take a good look around your plant or facility. If yours is like most American workplaces these days, youre looking at a mini United Nations people from...
Liberty Mutual Driver Survey: Costs of Crashes on the Rise
Looking at loss sources, the study assigned an injury type based on the activity being performed when the injury occurred. The study found that the frequency...
Study: Employer Advice and Devices Don't Prevent Worker Back Pain
Lead author Kari-Pekka Martimo, of the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health in Helsinki, said attempts made by employers to teach workers specific...
Pre-Incident Planning Must Go to the Head of the Class for Nation's Schools
When we learned early on the morning of April 16 that a lone gunman had shot and killed 33 people on the Virginia Tech University campus, we felt shock,...
New Guide Focuses on Retention and Recruitment of Firefighters
Retention and Recruitment for the Volunteer Emergency Services: Challenges and Solutions (Second Edition) addresses the primary challenges departments...
OSHA Accepting Harwood Grant Applications
Nonprofit organizations, including community-based and faith-based organizations that are not an agency of a state or local government, are eligible to...
Is Your Community Prepared for a Bioterrorism Attack?
Nearly five and a half years later, former U.S. Senate Majority Leader William Frist told the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland that an inevitable...
SONS: Spill of National Significance Exercise 2007
SONS Spill of National Significance Exercise 2007 is sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG). The...
OSHA Forms Training Directorate
According to the agency, the new directorate was formed to provide effective leadership, direction and management of the OSHA Training Institute (OTI),...
Rand: Terrorists Teach Each Other Deadly Skills
Terrorist groups that have little in common and with very different goals are sharing knowledge for their mutual benefit, and thats bad news, said Brian...
Only Break in Case of Emergency
We know adult influencers such as personality characteristics, learning styles, knowledge, experiences and training attitudes play an important role in...
