President Bush’s budget request of $483.7 million for OSHA in fiscal year 2007 represents an increase of $11.2 million over FY 2006 and includes boosts for federal enforcement, compliance assistance and safety and health statistics, Jonathan L. Snare, acting OSHA chief, announced last month.
Experts say "employees with chronic work stress have more than double the odds" of suffering from metabolic syndrome than do "those without work stress, after other risk factors are taken into account," according to a report on www.mydna.com.
As BP continues its efforts to bring its 1,200-acre Texas City refinery back online, the work is being watched closely by OSHA, the Galveston County Daily News reports. Agency inspectors have been conducting unit-by-unit oversight of the work.
President Bush’s nominee to head OSHA, Edwin G. Foulke Jr., told the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee Jan. 31 that if confirmed he would work to make the agency more proactive in preventing workplace deaths and fatalities.
Regardless of your incentives philosophy, innovation triggers success
Over the past two decades, a great deal of research and discussion has centered on safety incentives and both the positive and negative impacts of various approaches. While many organizations use prizes and awards for no lost-time injuries, a definitive correlation between successful safety performance and incentive awards has still not been proven, although organizations that use them infer a connection.
It’s easy to be “led down the garden path†as a safety practitioner. Let me explain. Or rather, I’ll let Thomas Sowell do the explaining. In 1995, Sowell wrote the best-seller, Vision of the Anointed (published by BasicBooks, a member of the Perseus Books Group).
Psychology is going positive — something to consider in your efforts to motivate workers to think and act safely. You see, for much of its history, psychology has focused much attention on the negative. Hmmm… might we say the same about safety programs? But I digress.
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