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Environmental Health and Safety

Human error & operational risk

Peter Bridle
How confident are you that a costly, serious safety event isn’t just around the next corner? If your organization has ever been surprised or caught off-guard by a sudden deterioration …
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Transportation Safety

Vegas air traffic controller is incapacitated on duty

Was it drugs or alcohol? A medical emergency? Federal officials aren’t saying, but an air traffic controller at the Las Vegas tower had to be removed from her position last …
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BLS: Fewer nonfatal workplace incidents in 2017

Private industry employers reported nearly 45,800 fewer nonfatal injury and illness cases in 2017 compared to a year earlier, according to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data released last week. …
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Environmental Health and Safety

Employee safety discipline ain’t what it used to be

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Dave Johnson
A tricky thing, disciplining employees. Every safety pro has a story about discipline:“I had to terminate a woman in 1987 because her body odor was so repulsive, affecting other workers …
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PPE

Top products of the week

Safety eyewear to use with prescription glasses and a rescue system for handling medical emergencies were this week’s top occupational safety and health products featured on ISHN.com. …
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Government Regulations

Weekly news round-up

An Amazon warehouse wall collapses, killing two workers; OSHA issues a final rule on crane operators and managers at one company are indicted for obstructing an OSHA fatal accident investigation. …
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Occupational Safety

AIHA and OSHA renew worker safety & health alliance

The American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA®) and OSHAhave renewed a partnership aimed at fostering safer and more healthful American workplaces. Through the alliance, the two organizations will pursue the following national …

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