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Workplace Safety News: OSHA Inspections Drop; Fatal and Nonfatal Injuries at Longtime Low

Benita Mehta
Benita Mehta
March 13, 2026

Recent BLS data reveals fatal and nonfatal injuries have declined. Separately, OSHA inspections have dropped in 2025.


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Improving Performance, Quality and Safety by Identifying Unconscious Biases in Operations

Peter G. Furst
March 12, 2026

Everyone has biases which unconsciously influence our actions and/or perceptions and can be both positive and negative in nature. This invariably can manifest itself in any work performed by employees.



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10 challenges confronting EHS pros in 2026

Dave Johnson
Dave Johnson
March 11, 2026

Will AI take my job? Does management really care about me? These questions can create difficult workplace cultures for safety and health programs to succeed.


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The Industrial Hygiene Law Project Redux

IH Renegades are Needed Now
Dan Markiewicz
Dan Markiewicz MS, CIH, CSP, RMP
March 10, 2026

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


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Chemical risk hazard communication

To Futureproof Your Workforce, Start Taking Safety Seriously

Frontline professionals need to know their leaders have got their back
Nick Haase
February 4, 2026

When small hazards fade into the environment, they stop being treated as signals that something needs to change.


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The US Government, Federal Budgets and Enforcement Concerns
Benita Mehta
Benita Mehta
January 9, 2026

OSHA, the Chemical Safety Board, NIOSH, and other federal agencies that deal with worker safety were under fire in 2025.


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What Should You Do About Electromagnetic Fields in the Workplace?

Dan Markiewicz
Dan Markiewicz MS, CIH, CSP, RMP
January 8, 2026

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


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rationality

Hidden Drivers of Safety Error Include Rationality, Which Affects Human Behavior

Peter G. Furst
January 7, 2026

To truly understand why and how things happen in the way that they do, we need to have an inside perspective into a worker’s rationality principle. 


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Attacking the Mental Health Stigma as Never Before

Dave Johnson
Dave Johnson
December 16, 2025

The most positive development I’ve noticed in workplace safety and health: Mental health awareness and outreach have never been greater.


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employee morale

Implications of Employee Morale Significant for Safety Management

Peter G. Furst
December 15, 2025

When the workforce feels that they can trust the people they work with and for and that they are treated fairly by management, they tend to think of the organization as a good place to work.


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