The recent acquisition of Hughes Supply by Home Depot set a high bar for valuations of distribution companies. Now may be the best window ever for selling a distribution company.
New York City firemen and emergency personnel exposed to dust from the collapse of the World Trade Center buildings experienced a decrease in lung function capability equal to 12 years of age-related decline, reports a new study published by the American Thoracic Society.
A Brooklyn, N.Y., book wholesaler must offer reinstatement and pay more
than $18,000 to an employee who was fired for filing a safety complaint
with OSHA.
OSHA has fined a Brooklyn, N.Y., foundry $144,750 for a litany of safety
and health violations, including unguarded machinery, inadequate hearing protection, lead overexposures and a steam explosion hazard.
The Senate Appropriations Committee in late July approved most of the
Bush administration's budget proposals that would freeze or eliminate
funding for several health, education and worker safety programs.
Going back at least as far as the early 1980s, to the study done by Tom Peters and Bob Waterman in the now classic In Search of Excellence, and continuing today in the work of many management gurus, a small subset of companies have been identified as “best practice†organizations.
For all the talk about safety cultures these days, a reality check might be in order. And we received one last week via email from the Society for Human Resource Management, in the form of the group’s annual employee job satisfaction survey.
My 12-mile bike ride one recent morning was interrupted by an event that adversely affected my attitude and self-talk. Here’s what happened: At the beginning of my route near my home in Newport, Va., I encountered about 20 bikers traveling in the opposite direction. All were decked out in radiant racing attire, consistent with their sleek road bikes.
In last month's column we learned that it's difficult to protect a pregnant employee in the U.S. A pregnant employee and her physician, with the employer as an interface, will determine if workplace risks are acceptable or not. The feds don't want to intervene with rules.
Installing anti-fatigue matting in your workplace to improve work conditions seems, on the surface, like a pretty simple endeavor. Surprisingly, however, many companies use the wrong products for their applications.
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