Articles by Dave Johnson

If a new generation comes about every 20 years or so, we’ve now seen two generations at the controls of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, or Versions 1.0 and 2.0. Version 3.0 has been on the market since 2008, when the third generation of OSHA hands took command of the agency.

Here in the muddle of confounding and generally depressing economic news, many safety products manufacturers, distributors and manufacturers’ sales reps tell us they are having a good year. 

ISHN Editor Dave Johnson interviews John Montigny, Chief Marketing Officer for Honeywell Safety Products, a $2-billion business unit of the Honeywell Life Safety Division of Honeywell, Inc. 

Distressing. Unacceptable. Mired in mediocrity. I’m paraphrasing, but that’s the essence of the American Society of Safety Engineers’ (ASSE) reaction last month to news from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics that a total of 4,547 workers died on the job in 2010 compared with 4,551 from 2009. 

Just where will this new Super Committee of Congressional Budget-Cutters come up with more than a trillion bucks in federal spending savings, as mandated by that Grand Bargain reached by Congress this summer to raise the federal government debt ceiling?

The August issue of Mother Jones magazine asks a relevant question: Corporate profits are better than ever. So why are you, and pretty much everyone else, having to work harder and harder, for less and less?

The deadly train wreck in eastern China in late July has provoked public outrage in the country.

 The largest human mass movement occurs each spring in China when 135 million migrant workers leave their factory jobs in China’s smog-choked industrial cities to journey to their home villages in farmlands hundreds and thousands of miles away to celebrate the Chinese New Year.

 Last evening I was entertained by flipping TV channels between Fox News and MSNBC for right and left, conservative and liberal, reactions to The Great Debt Ceiling Debate of 2011.