One of the key roles of safety and health pros is to be influence-peddlers. They need to influence line employees, work teams, work cells, supervisors, plant managers, on up to chief executives.
The American Psychological Association (APA) recently asked anger expert Dr. Howard Kassinove the following questions about the common but difficult emotion of anger.
The importance of wearing proper eye protection appropriate for the risk cannot be underestimated as about 70 percent of eye injuries result from flying or falling objects or from sparks striking the eye.
Italian researchers have shown that mice with retinitis pigmentosa raised in an enriched environment for one year had slower retinal degeneration than mice reared in a typical laboratory setting.
Work hazards usually not to blame for employees missing work, research shows
March 24, 2012
A supportive supervisor can keep employees in certain hazardous jobs from being absent even when co-workers think it’s all right to miss work, according to new research published by the American Psychological Association.