Industrial Safety & Health Top Stories - Articles - Page 235

Evaporative cooling draws heat from your body

June 1, 2016

You don’t have to be sweatin’ to the oldies or your favorite Richard Simmons DVD to generate heat. Actions as unconscious as breathing generate heat as part of the metabolism, the process of breaking down food for energy and rebuilding our bodies.

Gas detection Gets smart

Four innovations make compliance almost automatic

Praveen Sharma

June 1, 2016

Chicago Fire Chief Bob Anthony oversees Chicago’s fleet of 240 gas monitors and breathing apparatus.

Here are three image-based safety training activities

Linda Tapp, CSP, ALCM

June 1, 2016

If someone has the choice to look at an image in an effort to gain understanding of something, or read a paragraph or more of text, the visual option will be much more inviting.

Will terror strike your workplace?

Fear of terrorism far exceeds the actual risk – but if you see something, say something

Chip Dawson

June 1, 2016

It’s New Year’s morning and I’ve just finished my local newspaper. The front page is about a 25-year-old Rochester man arrested in a reported ISIS-inspired plot to abduct or kill patrons in a neighborhood bar on New Years Eve.1

Safety culture – it doesn’t exist

It’s more correct to talk about a risk culture

Corrie Pitzer

June 1, 2016

"The concept of organizational culture is hard to define, hard to analyze and measure, and hard to manage," Schein states in the preface of his 1992 book (p. xi).

7 sins of welding

Avoid the most commonly overlooked dangers

Lori Carpenter Robert Tessier Tom Hanus CSP

June 1, 2016

Welding professionals are critical to a wide variety of industries, from the automotive and transportation industries to aerospace, manufacturing, construction and more.

Cookie-cutter training doesn’t cut it

You should accommodate the diversity of your workforce

P.J. Schoeny

June 1, 2016

Last September, OSHA published its list of the Top 10 Most Frequently Cited Standards for FY2015

Avoid low attention/low retention training

8 attributes for engaging your employees

Bob Rock

June 1, 2016

We’ve all been there: a safety training course where the instructor reads from the PowerPoint® slides word for word – attempting to jazz things up with a laser pointer – while the audience struggles to keep their eyes open by sneaking looks at their phones or doodling.