EHS profession

7 hard-earned safety & health career lessons

Is it your job or your passion?

June 1, 2018

With about a decade to go until I slow down in my career, I’m now at the stage where I want to share what I’ve learned through experience and education. It’s called expatiate. Here are my hard-learned top seven career tips.

Worker protection or deregulation? The moment of truth for EHS

Garrett Brown MPH, CIH

September 1, 2017

The Trump administration’s drive to deregulate the American economy and workplaces means the occupational health and safety profession faces an inescapable moment of truth.

EHS pros in 2015: mature, experienced & graying, according to ISHN poll

January 16, 2015

According to ISHN’s 2015 EHS State of the Nation subscriber survey, overall, income figures, budget resources and staffing levels, job satisfaction and job security show much more stability, and in a number of cases growth, than reported in ISHN State of the Nation surveys 5-10-15 years ago.

In the era of Big Data and a shrinking OSHA, what does an EHS professional do, why are any needed?

Gary Rosenblum, CIH, ARM

May 14, 2014

I would look outside the EHS arena, which gets too lost in being OSHA-centric, for answers to some of the questions that confront the future of the EHS profession. I think the world of Risk Management and Insurance and the Liability Environment play a much bigger role in corporate decision-making when it comes to occupational safety.

Ethics education a must for safety professionals, study says

October 16, 2013

A recent study examining ethical reasoning among safety, health and environmental (SH&E) professionals is expected to help educators determine how to integrate a moral and ethical base within safety curricula to prepare future safety professionals to have an ethics based thought process when they enter the work force.

Is it safe for pregnant workers?

You can help to reasonably reduce hazards

Dan Markiewicz, MS, CIH, CSP, CHMM

June 6, 2012

The EEOC received 53,865 charges alleging pregnancy discrimination over the past ten fiscal years — more than a 35% increase in charges from the previous ten years.

Where’s the outrage?

4,690 deaths on the job in 2010: What “acceptable losses” mean to the EHS profession

Dave Johnson

June 6, 2012

An acceptable loss is a sacrifice that is deemed an acceptable cost of doing business.

11/16/2011 - EHS Profession

November 16, 2011

Does the EHS profession have a public relations problem? Does the public understand what safety professionals do? Would a better understanding make safety professionals more effective at their jobs? Would a higher profile motivate more young people to choose EHS as a career?