Research confirms that new guidelines to prevent worker hand, wrist, and elbow musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) better protect workers. MSDs can be debilitating and costly workplace safety and health issues. In Washington state alone, direct costs for hand, wrist, and elbow MSD workers’ compensation claims accounted for over $2 billion and 11.8 million lost work days from 1999-2013.
With so many educational sessions, exhibitors and special events, the scope of the NSC 2019 Congress & Expo might seem overwhelming – particularly for first-time attendees.
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When you’re not meeting and greeting at NSC Congress & Expo, you may want to take some time to explore the attractions of the host city. There are many. In addition to lots of sunshine, San Diego also boasts a vibrant downtown, a sparkling coastline and lots of shopping and dining options. For starters, you can take surfing lessons in La Jolla, visit the museums of Balboa Park or stroll through the Gaslamp Quarter.
Two speakers at the 2019 NSC Congress & Expo address serious safety and security issues that safety professional must increasingly grapple with. Delivering the Occupational Keynote speech on Tuesday, September 10 from 8 to 9 a.m. will be Jack Jackson, Senior Safety Consultant for SafeStart®. Jackson’s speech is entitled, “It Can Happen Here: Workplace Security.”
In March, 2019, United Piping, Inc, a pipeline construction company based in Duluth, MN and founded in 1997, surpassed a milestone – two million man hours worked without a lost-time injury. Key to this achievement in a hazardous industry is UPI Piping’s strong culture of safety values and practices.
BP has announced it is selling all of its Alaska operations to Hilcorp, a privately-owned company with a troubled safety and environmental track-record.
The $5.6 billion sale includes BP's stakes in the Trans Alaska Pipeline and the Prudhoe Bay oil field, one of the nation's largest and once its most productive oil field, which BP currently operates.
Occupational safety and health professionals can transform their company’s safety program from a compliance-driven cost center into a corporate sustainability initiative with help from the American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP). ASSP’s comprehensive Safety Standards Toolbox on Sept. 24-25 will give registrants access to four webinars and nearly 50 voluntary national consensus standards that promote industry best practices and address leading causes of citations.
Casella, a global provider of air sampling, noise and vibration monitoring solutions, will be demonstrating its latest monitoring technology at the 2019 National Safety Council (NSC) Congress & Expo, Booth #5810, Sept. 9-12 in San Diego, California.
The NSC Congress & Expo is the world's largest annual "must attend" event for safety, health and environmental professionals.
Some 59 percent of fire stations in the U.S. are not equipped with exhaust emission control systems, which are critical for mitigating firefighter exposure/keywords/13730-occupational-exposure to diesel fumes. Exposure to these fumes can increase the likelihood of cardiovascular disease, cardiopulmonary disease, respiratory disease, and lung cancer. Many firefighters sleep in fire stations because they work extended shifts – an arrangement which increases their chance of exposure.
High-reliability organizations create the safest and most effective operations and then constantly re-assess for any possibility of failure before an incident occurs, including near-miss events.