Articles by Dave Johnson

The Trump administration had proposed an 8% overall cut from FY 2025 and a 12.3% reduction in OSHA staff.

The Department of Health and Human Services has announced a .reversal of its deep staffing cuts to NIOSH.

According to a Bureau of Labor Statistics study, white-collar jobs are associated with a considerably higher level of psychological stress. Among those white-collar jobs is daily EHS work.

Less than 2% of worksites have a full-time EHS manager on site. 

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

If large companies say the way they measure safety performance does not fully capture the most serious workplace risks, where does that leave the small and mid-size companies?

“One of the most shocking revelations from the recent California State Audit of Cal/OSHA was how few worker complaints actually got investigated."

SIF exposure tracking, simplifying and streamlining EHS systems and artificial intelligence/predictive analytics are the top priorities for the next 12-24 months reported by EHS executives.

More than half of the 1,000 employees surveyed (57%) believe their employers place more importance on profits than safety. 

These are the first true AI agents specifically designed for EHS that go beyond copilots, chatbots or predictive analytics, according to Benchmark Gensuite.