A strong culture of safety and preparedness in the workplace prevents panic-stricken, impulsive behaviors from employees.

Have a strong food safety culture… be FSMA/inspection/audit ready at all times… provide better allergen control… focus on recall prevention… these have all become common mantras in the food and beverage industry.

Matching safety and compliance training to industry, employees to training and figuring out the right training frequency, is a challenge for many organizations, and tracking all that is perhaps more difficult still.

Beyond virtual meetings, companies are employing virtual reality (VR) as a training tool. The devices help create, say, a virtual factory where people do their job virtually before they do it in real life.

A 31-year-old assembly technician had only been working for a battery charger manufacturer for about a month when he was killed on the job.

A “champion” is commonly defined as the victor of a competition or challenge. A less common usage of the word “champion,” one that has particular resonance for us at NIOSH, is the meaning that denotes an early advocate for an innovative cause or idea.