We recently asked about two dozen readers to give us questions for this year’s White Paper survey on the state of the EHS nation. It’s a pivotal time to ask what’s going on. Many readers work in plants with below-average injury rates. Exposures are largely under control. Nationally, work injury rates rest at an all-time low. OSHA is quiet, with little standards-setting action.
Many EHS pros aren’t sure where they stand in their organizations. Not that EHS has ever been on the strongest footing, but things used to be more black and white — for better or worse. Back in the 1970s and ’80s, executives saw EHS pros as compliance cops. OSHA was the name of the safety game. Confining expectations for pros, but clear.