Risk management

How to Reduce Your Organization’s Risks Using Job Safety Analysis

March 28, 2016

In the world of manufacturing, there are inherent risks, whether related to product manufacturing or common risks that exist throughout the organization. To improve overall safety within the workplace, these risks must be identified and prevented.

How Automated EHS Software Paves the Road to Success

February 22, 2016

Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) professionals are responsible for maintaining a high level of both safety and compliance within the organization.

Stock market performance linked to employee health & safety programs

January 13, 2016

A study utilizing investment simulations for 17 publicly held companies with strong health or safety programs for employees suggests that employers that invest significantly in health and safety programming can outperform other companies in the marketplace.

From Center for Safety and Health Sustainability:

Report foresees new focus on OSH in corporate reporting

December 16, 2015

Sustainability and financial accounting will soon include critical occupational safety and health data in the continued evolution of integrated reporting.

A case study in risk perception

December 3, 2015

A product might be on the market for years when, suddenly, public outcry causes it to be taken off the shelves. When consumer reaction causes a crisis, companies don’t have time to focus on the underlying factors that created it. Once the storm blows over, there’s rarely an opportunity for product stewards to step back and reflect.

A NIOSH Science Blog post

James Bond exposed…to 50 years of occupational hazards

November 12, 2015

Your heart may race while your eyes follow the iconic figure that is James Bond as he holds it together to do his job: driving at high speed down alleyways, under railway crossings, and often through explosive fire and other obstructions. You may wonder how he will survive driving a car that has just been catapulted up a runway and over a body of water. This British secret agent stops at nothing.

Safety ain’t what it used to be

Phil La Duke

September 15, 2015

Safety is a relatively new function. When it was created in the mid 70s, it was typically an assignment tacked on to someone’s existing job. There were no instructions, or templates for doing a good job.

ASSE to host Construction Safety Symposium in New Orleans this fall

August 3, 2015

The American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) is hosting a two-day Construction Safety Symposium featuring industry experts discussing the latest safety practices, innovation and risk management thinking from November 12-13, 2015 in New Orleans.

BLR® – Business & Legal Resources partners with Aarcher, Inc. to help U.S. companies reduce environmental compliance risk

Creating a new opportunity for ehs managers to keep current on changing state and federal requirements

July 17, 2015

Business & Legal Resources, the leading provider of compliance and training services for safety and environmental markets, today announced a partnership with Aarcher, Inc., a leading provider of environmental management consulting and compliance training.

Study: Risk assessments best way to tackle psychosocial and musculoskeletal risk factors

July 15, 2015

The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA ) recently launched the main findings of the Second European Survey of Enterprises on New and Emerging Risks (ESENER-2) at the European Parliament in Brussels. The results of the survey — which collected responses from almost 50,000 workplaces in 36 countries, including all 28 Member States — give a detailed insight into how occupational safety and health (OSH) risks are managed in Europe’s workplaces.