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James Bond exposed…to 50 years of occupational hazards

November 12, 2015

Your heart may race while your eyes follow the iconic figure that is James Bond as he holds it together to do his job: driving at high speed down alleyways, under railway crossings, and often through explosive fire and other obstructions. You may wonder how he will survive driving a car that has just been catapulted up a runway and over a body of water. This British secret agent stops at nothing.

Blast in Omaha railcar kills two, injures one

Nebraska Railcar Cleaning Services cited for more than 30 violations after tragedy

November 5, 2015

Moments before a blast ripped through a railcar on April 14, 2015, a check of the air quality inside indicated a serious risk of an explosion. Despite the warning, Nebraska Railcar Cleaning Services sent two employees, aged 41 and 45, into the railcar to work without monitoring the air continuously for explosive hazards as required, nor providing the employees with emergency retrieval equipment or properly fitted respirators.

Western Illinois University students get first-hand look at confined spaces

A "mini field trip" in hazards, regulations

November 3, 2015

There are more than 50 confined spaces on Western Illinois University's Macomb campus. On any given work day at Western, technicians in WIU Facilities Management may find themselves working in one of these potentially dangerous work sites.

Seven miners die in third quarter of 2015; fewest coal deaths in a fiscal year

October 27, 2015

The Mine Safety and Health Administration’s (MSHA) summary of U.S. mining deaths from July 1 through Sept. 30, 2015 shows seven fatalities occurred in industry accidents. In the first nine months of 2015, 25 fatalities occurred, eight fewer than in the same period in 2014.

New Zealand report: Men more prone than women to workplace accidents

October 27, 2015

Men were more prone than women to workplace accidents in 2014, generating 71 percent of all injury claims and 96 percent of fatal injury claims, Statistics New Zealand said.

The keys to successful Injury and fatality prevention programs

Sam Prusek

October 26, 2015

Injury and fatality prevention programs provide the foundation for changes in how hazards are identified and controlled.

Communication tower safety gets its own week

October 23, 2015

Safety in the communications tower industry will be the focus of "Tower Week," an international event running from Nov. 2 to Nov. 6, 2015. Organized by the Prefabricated Access Suppliers' and Manufacturers' Association (PASMA), Tower Week was established to promote the safe use of towers and bring focus to ideas, the exchange of information and the development of height safety in general.

What’s new with mobile apps for safety?

Abby Ferri CSP

October 22, 2015

Almost every worker is now issued a smart phone. Some may even be provided with tablet devices. We’ve come a long way from two-way radios and flip phones. Smart phones and tablets can be a distraction or a production tool. One way that these mobile devices can encourage safe production at the work site is through the use of mobile applications.

ASSE applauds two universities who received ABET accreditation

October 20, 2015

Two more occupational safety and health academic programs have recently been awarded ABET accreditation. Receiving the accreditation for the first time are East Carolina University’s MS in Occupational Safety and Illinois State University’s BS in Safety.

Michaels to Congress: OSHA targets most dangerous workplaces

Dr. David Michaels

October 16, 2015

...Earlier this year in Houston, Texas, a worker was hospitalized with broken arms and severe contusions after falling 12 feet off of a roof. The saddest part of this case wasn't that the employer did not provide fall protection for this worker; it was that the worker had actually requested fall protection and the employer had denied it.