A new study has found that 37.9 percent of U.S. workers experience fatigue, and that the problem that carries billions of dollars in costs from lost productivity.
Times being what they are, with environmental health and safety professional fields fragmented, work more fast-paced, with less time for reading and strategizing, I don’t know if one individual such as Dan Petersen will ever command the collective attention he did for more than half a century.
Does it make you nervous when a stranger knows more about you or your business than you think they should? In today’s information age there are very few secrets. It’s best to anticipate what questions you might have to respond to, coming from sources that might surprise you, and have a plan for communication.
I have a small, framed photo in my office of an old boy with a gray beard slouched in a folding chair in his yard. He wears jeans, boots, red suspenders, a denim shirt, all topped by a wide-rim white cowboy hat. A black dog lies at his feet and a long stogie is stuck in his mouth.
It was Friday at 3:30 p.m. when I got the call. “We are wrapping up the job! Wanna meet me at the confined space entrance so we can do the wrap-up walk-around?”
“Sure thing,” I replied. “See ya in ten minutes.”
I grabbed my hat and glasses and walked out the door. Part of my safety and environmental specialist responsibilities is to perform a closing meeting with contractors and ensure that the worksite is free of hazards, locks have been removed, and spills were reported and cleaned before the contractor signs off on the completed job.
OSHA is inviting the public to participate in informal stakeholder meetings on Occupational Exposure to Ionizing Radiation, party of the agency’s information collection efforts to add to the information obtained in the Request for Information published on May 5, 2005.
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