Safety committees exist in many workplaces, and the quality of their contributions can vary greatly. In some companies, they fulfill a role of communication, quasi-participation, or perhaps real employee participation — for the few workers on the committee.
Sometime last year I received this email: “I am an EH&S consultant and have been asked to address a group of human resource professionals on safety management. I am interested in learning more about the changing face of safety management…
The first article I wrote for ISHN, back in 1991, was about biomonitoring — detecting chemicals within the body. It was predicted that a tipping point would someday occur when biomonitoring became more important than traditional sampling for chemicals in environmental media such as air, water or soil.
Safety for office workers who
occupy the commercial high-rises of New York City is a key issue that
led the NYC Council to amend existing building code laws.
Do you think safety meetings are
painful, time wasting, poorly run and unproductive torture sessions? If
you hate meetings — any type of meetings — you’re not alone.
Manufacturing employees work
hard, and so must the uniforms they wear. For a uniform to be of value
it must be both comfortable and durable. In many cases that uniform
must also offer a significantly higher level of protection from
workplace hazards than ordinary street clothes.
Every day an estimated 1,000 eye
injuries occur in American workplaces. Workers not wearing eye
protection and wearing the wrong kind of eye protection are the primary
causes of such injuries.
Training is to learning as
Boardwalk is to Monopoly. It isn’t the game, but it is an important
piece; everybody wants to own it, and it is hard to win without it.
Safety equipment selection is
often a matter of choosing from a variety of options that result in a
balanced, effective solution. When it comes to selecting breathing
support systems, there can be no compromise.
While researchers estimate that
the average person spends 90 percent of his or her life indoors,
government has been slow to establish specific standards governing
levels of indoor air pollutants.
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