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An employee of a residential treatment facility for the mentally challenged in New Paltz, New York, has been vindicated by the U.S. Labor Department.

Last year I got a call from a friend of mine, Don. He was the facilitator of a behavioral process at a chemical plant, and the plant was doing some major cost-cutting.

Don's experience sheds light on management's mindset when cost-cutting begins. Here's where your safety and health program might be vulnerable.

If you are exposed to potentially hazardous chemicals in your workplace, chemical protective clothing (CPC) can serve as your Rlast line of defense.' But simply identifying a chemical hazard and selecting proper chemical protective clothing isn't enough to ensure your safety.

Millions of workers risk hand injuries every day on the job. And many of the risks are not obvious.

Have you been struggling to get the kind of safety support that you need? Do you have a good feel for what needs to be done, but can't get management to respond? Perhaps you need a different perspective to give managers new insight into what needs to be done. Perhaps it's time for an audit of your organization's entire safety management system - not just the technical stuff.

It's not possible to be world class in safety performance unless your organization manages safety as a whole system - not in pieces. A piecemeal approach has different strategies competing with each other for mindshare and resources. Some people push behavioral safety, some push ergonomic design, and so on.

Are you looking to establish an effective first aid program in your workplace? Or, are you wondering whether the one you already have in place is a quality one? Either way, it's a good idea to review the basics.

I recently visited an industrial plant where workers were using sign language. No, the workers were not deaf; they simply could not hear each other over the din of workplace noise. Turbulent flames from furnace burners, the clatter of metal, and the whine of combustion blowers, all contributed to high noise levels. Workers had little choice but to communicate via hand signals.

U.S. industry's record-breaking safety and health performance - in terms of reported injuries and illnesses - continued for a second-straight year in 1997, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The BLS released its annual survey report last December.

This month is known to sports fans as 'March Madness' - when 64 major college basketball teams compete in the annual National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament. For three weeks, fans will watch games where momentum dramatically swings back and forth. In this article, I want to discuss momentum - and how we can harness it to improve our safety processes.