As manufacturers learned about the seven wastes that lean organizations seek to eliminate — overproduction, waiting, conveyance/movement, processing, inventory, motion, and correction — many added an eighth: underutilized talent.
GHD, one of the world’s leading engineering firms, is launching a new service to allow public health entities, utilities and facility operators, including manufacturing, education, military and others to test and monitor their wastewater to detect the presence of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
The no-cost “paperless” subscription from SafetyTek’s widely adopted, cloud-based EHS software gives businesses the automation and data they need to proactively protect employees’ health and safety.
With less than 150 days left in 2020, have you started to plan for 2021? Are you discussing budget plans? Strategy for 2021 and beyond? What about your safety program? Has the big question come up?
For all the COVID-19 safety guidelines circulating, some hundreds of pages long, basic best practices are straightforward and known by most Americans. Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984, recently recounted them in an interview with the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Safety incentives as traditionally deployed (prizes rewarded for no reports of injuries) often do more harm than good. To win rewards, employees might hide injuries and not report them. You’re left with an inaccurate picture of your true safety performance.
Occupational safety and health professionals can get a road map to continuous safety improvement by attending SafetyFOCUS: Safety Management Systems, a two-day virtual event offered by the American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP).
Werner will train thousands of workers across the country in support of the Occupational Safety & Health Administration’s (OSHA) National Safety Stand-Down initiative.
Occupational and environmental health experts release recommendations on reducing risk of COVID-19 with enhanced engineering and work practice controls
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