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Study Links Safety Investments with Improved Performance and Productivity
Everybody knows investments in workplace safety and health prevent accidents and injuries. But a new study indicates that are other bottom-line benefits as well. If you need some more ammunition to convince your top management and managers throughout your organization of the value of investing dollars and time in workplace safety and health, you’ll be […]
Getting the Most Out of Your Corporate Social Responsibility Program
RCRA Contingency Plans
Fighting Impulsive Behavior: What Are the Risks, What Are the Solutions?
Despite your best efforts to make the workplace safe, human nature in the form of impulsive risk-taking behavior can undo a lot of your hard work. The question is, what can you do about it? Some years back, researchers working for NIOSH published an article in The Behavior Analyst entitled "Impulsive Choice and Workplace Safety." […]
More On PCB Recordkeeping: You Asked, We Answered
8 Steps to Facilitate Compliance with GHS
With the hazard communication standard already a regular fixture on OSHA’s most frequently cited standards list, it’s more important now than ever before to understand how GHS affects your hazard communication obligations. It’s important to remember that your hazard communication requirements will not be reduced by the Globally Harmonized System (GHS); they will simply be […]
US Navy Fined $161k for 37 Enviro Violations – May Enforcement Wrap Up
OSHA GHS Final Rule Effective Next Week
The Globally Harmonized System (GHS) finally makes its debut. But don’t worry, there’s plenty of time yet to comply. OSHA has announced that the final rule for GHS, or Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals, will become law effective May 25, 2012. The effective date of the final rule is 60 days […]
