In addition to providing opportunities to network with EHS colleagues, the midday meals at Safety 2015 in Dallas June 7-10 will offer some additional benefits. Additional fee and/or pre-registration is required for some sessions.
The American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) is currently accepting submissions for workshop proposals for its Fall Conference 2015. The AIHA says the conference is “the best opportunity of the year for IH and OEHS professionals of all levels to learn and network in a collaborative, intimate, and engaging environment.”
Let me begin by thanking all of you who voiced your support for me during the past week. As you may have surmised, I get frustrated from time to time, mostly because so many safety practitioners still don’t get it.
The American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) has added a second chapter in Maharashtra, India further establishing a strong occupational safety and health foothold in a country poised for explosive economic growth.
In Hollywood they’re calling it the new “Golden Age of TV.” In 2015, 113 cable networks are programming 32,828 hours of content, up from 44 networks and 12,537 hours of content in the 1999-2000 season, according to NBCUniversal research.
This month, ProAct Safety, a recognized pioneer of safety excellence strategies, marks seven full years of distributing the weekly safety industry audio and video podcast series, “Safety Culture Excellence.”
According to ISHN’s 2015 EHS State of the Nation subscriber survey, overall, income figures, budget resources and staffing levels, job satisfaction and job security show much more stability, and in a number of cases growth, than reported in ISHN State of the Nation surveys 5-10-15 years ago.
According to ISHN’s 2015 EHS State of the Nation subscriber survey, much EHS programmatic work in 2015 centers on: 1) building and/or maintaining a safety culture for organizations (54%); 2) finding and fixing workplace hazards (48%); 3) conducting risk assessments and risk prioritization (43%); and 4) tracking safety and health performance measures other than counting injuries and illnesses (38%).
One of the more difficult situations in which to make an ethical decision is when more than one person is potentially impacted by your action and their expectations of how you should proceed are in conflict.
The most pressing issue facing EHS professionals in the new year, according to ISHN’s 2015 EHS State of the Nation subscriber survey, is an age-old challenge that has been reported in ISHN State of the Nation surveys since the 1980s – dealing with the safety and health attitudes and behaviors of line employees. Consider: