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New economical process, which is being patented, can test a sample about every seven minutes

Rate of 4.8 cases per 100 full-time workers is slightly less than the 5.0 rate reported in 2003

In July of 1996, TWA Flight 800 exploded in midair soon after leaving New York’s JFK International Airport.

When I was a boy there was no such thing as ergonomics, or if there was we sure hadn’t heard of it in Lowell, Indiana, in the 1950s.

Google the term “safety culture” and you’ll quickly turn up about 61,500,000 references.

Three days after Christmas in 1972, Eastern Airlines flight 401 nose-dived into the Florida everglades, killing 99 passengers and crewmembers.

It’s January 1, 2010. President Mark Warner (the former Democratic governor of Virginia) is set to sign “The Workplace Full Disclosure for Safety’s Sake Act.”

It seems fitting to end the year with some reflections on this past hurricane season.

Everything you do to reduce human error — and thus losses — depends on perceptions of your organization’s culture. It’s that simple.

OK, you’re ready to implement an occupational safety and health management system, say OSHA’s Voluntary Protection Program or the new ANSI/AIHA Z10 standard.