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Throughout the 1990s, there has been concern that businesses have backed away from safety and health commitments and investments due to less OSHA pressure, few new OSHA standards, and the drive to cut costs everywhere in organizations.

OSHA and every other federal agency will give the Office of Management and Budget a strategic plan detailing goals for at least the next five years.

We are also obligated by OSHA regulations to train employees to detect the release of hazardous chemicals by detecting odors.

skin disease remains one of the top ten work-related diseases in American workplaces, accounting for nearly 40 percent of all occupational illnesses and costing American industry $1 billion a year, according to one estimate.

"It's time to ring the bell and say 'wake up'," says Director of OSHA's Health Response Team in Salt Lake City, Bob Curtis.

Errors, or cognitive failures and mistakes (that result from our mental processes involving awareness and judgment), are unintentional and often caused by environmental factors.

About one or two out of every ten readers (16 percent, to be exact) plan to start their own consulting business in 1998, according to this year's White Paper research survey.

The California Legislature adopted an enforceable ergonomics standard that became effective July 3, 1997.

Do you think Charles Jeffress is learning the ways of Washington, or what?

industrial hygienists intent on advancing their careers are adding safety, environmental protection, workers' compensation, and other activities to their job duties.