Environmental Health and Safety

How to understand the complex intricacies of HazCom training

August 27, 2021

On OSHA’s Top 10 list of the most frequently cited standards in fiscal year 2020, Hazard Communication (HazCom) took the no. 2 spot, as it has for the last eight years. Although the HazCom standard has numerous requirements, training violations are among the most common for employers.

Maintaining a Civil Workplace

Safety pros can learn about how to maintain a civil workplace from anti-bullying policies at big universities

Edward Stern

August 27, 2021

If your business requires more skill than laborers off the street, it costs money to find and train the right employees. To keep the talent you have found and developed, you must maintain a civil workplace. Bullies chase away talent.

As 3D printing use increases, so does risk of VOCs, combustible dust

Joshua Lew, MPH, CIH

August 27, 2021

In an age where there are new breakthroughs every day, mitigating hazards can prove difficult when there is little to no research on potential hazards to health, let alone rules and regulations to ensure that organizations are protecting the health and safety of their employees.

FR or AR: What’s the difference?

Rick Pedley

August 27, 2021

The difference between flame resistant (FR) and arc flash or arc rated (AR) clothing is clear, but many professionals make the mistake of choosing FR clothing with the assumption that they will be safe should a fire occur.

How to prevent workplace injuries with artificial intelligence

Ryan Quiring

August 27, 2021

Let’s look at how safety and HR professionals can apply AI to a company’s safety initiatives, provide the data necessary for obtaining meaningful results, avoid common pitfalls, and get the answers needed from an AI assistant.

It can be easy to overlook the need for eye and face protection

Mark H. Stromme

August 27, 2021

Of all areas of the body, the eyes are among the most exposed to hazards on a daily basis. It takes only a single speck of flying debris to cause serious damage to an eye.

A moral imperative: Preventing arc flash, and fatality and serious injury incidents

Colin Duncan

August 27, 2021

Electrical-related fatalities and serious injuries (FSI)* are among the noted FSIs. FSIs represent a safety and health challenge that has gained increasing visibility in the past decade as even organizations with elite environment, health and safety programs struggle to reduce FSI numbers.

The pragmatic development of ongoing hazard analysis to reach high-reliability goals

Cory Worden M.S., CSHM

August 27, 2021

High-reliability organizations are those whose leaders strive to create the safest and most effective hazard controls and then constantly re-assess these operations for any possibility of failure so that it can be resolved before an incident occurs.

National Heat Safety Coalition releases the country’s first recommendations to combat industrial heat stress

August 26, 2021

Heat illness is 100% preventable, yet 11 workers suffer serious heat-related injury or death every day in the United States. Without federal standards for preventing heat illness on the job, the problem persists and stands to increase dramatically as the climate warms.

Fueling safety culture improvement and SIF prevention with BBS 2.0

Josh Williams, Ph.D

August 25, 2021

Although workplace incident rates have steadily declined by 28% over the last decade, rates for serious injuries and fatalities (SIFs) have remained virtually unchanged.