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We pilot ton-and-a-half hunks of metal down a crowded highway while talking on the phone, listening to angry talk-show hosts, drinking our coffee and thinking about what will greet us at work.

Test your compliant nature by answering these questions.

Warning: This article includes ethics training that may force you to come off the sideline and participate in ethics.

If it takes OSHA 94 years to inspect every U.S. worksite once, as the AFL-CIO claims, it will take the agency 100 years to get around to all these “inputs.”

In the tragic Toyota situation, there are lessons for us all.

When hope is all we count on and we subsequently fail, we give up.

You may be surprised to learn that there are no specifications for a pregnant employee in OSHA’s lead standards.

One of the most dangerous confined space entries is when a depleted oxygen, or inert, atmosphere is present.

I’ve been reporting on the work of safety and health professionals since 1980 and these questions have consistently defied consensus.

Risk assessment techniques are necessary to help decision makers make informed choices, prioritize actions and distinguish among alternative courses of action.