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All of us, including myself, have been involved in safety change efforts during our careers and have experienced varying degrees of success and failures.

After a 30-year sleep, workplace safety is undergoing a great transformation. All workplaces and nearly all workplace hazards will be impacted.

Safety “programs” that emphasize the role of human error/unsafe acts have an interesting history.

Falls are among the most common causes of injuries and deaths in the workplace, totaling an estimated 100,000 each year.

OSHA’s powered industrial truck standard moved up from seventh place to sixth on the agency’s top ten most frequently cited standards for Fiscal 2013

We’ve all heard about the “feedback sandwich” where it’s recommended that critical feedback should be sandwiched by positive feedback on both sides.

Personal protective equipment (PPE) for the eyes and face is designed to prevent or lessen the severity of injuries to workers.

We are going through a news cycle now when it can be too easy to argue that too often safety is the last thing people are thinking about.

In Megan McArdle’s new book, “The UP Side of DOWN — Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success,” she focuses on failures and how individuals react to failures that occur to them and to others.

Safety pros can effect change by (1) rethink how change happens, (2) prep for change, and (3) seize the opportunity to effect lasting change.