In September and October 2016, BNP Media Research conducted an online survey of ISHN readers, asking many of you and your peers about program goals and priorities for the coming year.
If history is any lesson, here’s what we’ve seen: When a Republican is in the White House, the president doesn’t spend much time thinking about labor, the Department of Labor, or little ole OSHA.
Back in the Stone Age, when I first began writing about workplace safety and health for ISHN, I almost immediately came across the admonishment that safety and health professionals must “talk management’s language” if they want to get anywhere.
Fast food ain’t what it used to be. At least that’s what McDonald’s® wants you to believe after taking out a full-page, four-color advertisement in The New York Times in August.
Fast food ain’t what it used to be. At least that’s what McDonald’s® wants you to believe after taking out a full-page, four-color advertisement in The New York Times in August.
On May 7, 2016, a 40-year-old Canton, Ohio, man had just left a family vacation in Walt Disney World in Orlando and was behind the wheel of his Tesla Model S, which he nicknamed “Tessy,” an all-electric compact vehicle that he had put 40,000 miles on in the first nine months he owned it.
Google the phrase “stupid unsafe acts” and you get about 174,000 results. That’s a bit scary. Included are links to “People Doing Stupid Things,” “Stupid Human Beings Doing Unsafe Things” and “Hilarious pictures from around the world show workmen who somehow cheated death.”
About seven in ten U.S. employers offer a general wellness program, up from 58 percent in 2008, according to the Society for Human Resource Management.