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In my small sampling of safety-related surveys, let’s see what’s happening on the frontlines of the wellbeing movement. I'm struck by the gap between employees and employers. 

Safety is an outcome of an activity engaged in by a person performing their daily work or task. Let’s dispute some myths.

Sustainability is becoming an important point of discussion in the environmental health and safety space.

With record setting high temperatures globally, and heat hazards continually flamed by the media, all work locations must be prepared for heat concerns among their workforce. 

The traditional approaches to managing human performance may not be effective. Here’s a new approach to performance evaluation.

Historically high temperatures are breaking records and exposing millions of people to the serious dangers of heat in the workplace

To avoid the contentious debate of what an individual human life is truly worth, government agencies use the “Value of a Statistical Life.”

It doesn’t have to be this tragic — both indoors and outdoors when temperatures reach dangerous, extreme levels. Preventive measures are found all over the internet. But heat prevention practices, in reality, are not always easily practiced, if attempted at all. 

This column, depicting the case of a fictitious construction worker, is based on information presented at a session titled “Mental Health and Suicide Prevention” at ASSP's annual event in early June.