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While many compliance-focused training programs don’t cover mental health and wellness topics, safety professionals have been increasingly trying to emphasize resources in the workplace.

As May is Mental Health Awareness Month, Clare Epstein of Vector Solutions spoke to ISHN about why mental health is so important as part of workplace safety initiatives.

Prescription opioids and other controlled substances remain widely used to treat workplace and non-workplace injuries.

Advanced design strategies for hospital systems prioritize preventive solutions. That means not just creating a strategy to react to situations. 

New technology exposes difficult to measure ergonomics-related risks before they lead to costly upper-extremity disorders.

There is no official data but about 15% of workers are impaired on the job at any given time, says safety advocate.

Musculoskeletal injuries are still one of the biggest challenges in the manufacturing industry. As safety professionals look for better ways to reduce risk, motion capture combined with AI is increasingly being utilized.

Views of a “renegade” industrial hygiene faction believe that the AIHA is more than just an obstacle to the success of the PWFA.

Industrial environments frequently involve lifting, pushing, pulling, overhead reaching and prolonged standing. Ergonomic strategies focus on fitting the job to the worker rather than expecting the worker to adapt endlessly to the job.

EU’s EMF Directive requires employers to conduct and communicate risk assessments, especially for EMF sources measured above action levels.