Category: Special Topics in Safety Management

Just what do industrial hygienists actually do, and why is it important to your safety program? This week, our Safety Training Tips editor focuses on this important and highly specialized profession. What is industrial hygiene? Industrial hygiene has been defined (by NASA) as “the science of anticipating, recognizing, evaluating, and controlling workplace conditions that may […]

Small things or actions can mean a lot when analyzing a job for safety hazards. Here’s how to use Job Hazard Analysis to find how each contributes to a safer workplace. Yesterday’s Advisor reported the views of Australian OHS consultant Lewis Stratton, who feels that all too often, workers are blamed for safety lapses when […]

How often do managers hang the responsibility for safety problems on workers when the cause may be a lot closer to home? Here’s an answer … all the way from Australia. See if you agree with it. Never let it be said that Safety Daily Advisor won’t go to the ends of the earth to […]

In addition to targeting chemical plants in 2008, OSHA has announced a National Emphasis Program (NEP) on workplace silica exposure, which threatens some 2 million workers with a lung-crippling disease. Here, from BLR’s OSHA Compliance Encyclopedia, are some strategies to reduce the risk. Yesterday’s Advisor described a new OSHA National Emphasis Program (NEP) on chemical […]

OSHA has instituted an intense inspection effort called a National Emphasis Program (NEP) on 28,000 U.S. chemical plants. And it’s mobilized more than a third of its inspection force to carry out that effort. Memo to some 28,000 American chemical plants: You’re about to get “NEP’d” by OSHA. NEP stands for National Emphasis Program, which […]

The heart of any workplace drug and alcohol abuse program is the policy that establishes and controls it. From BLR’s new guide, Essential Safety Policies, here are some key points to include. Yesterday’s Advisor began a discussion of workplace drug and alcohol abuse, which, despite the government’s decades-long war on drugs, drains business of more […]

Workplace drug and alcohol abuse costs businesses a hundred billion dollars a year, and that’s before the enormous human costs. But a solid antiabuse program can help curb it at your organization. Here are key steps in setting one up. One hundred billion dollars a year. That’s what the U.S. government estimates is the annual […]

You may be the safety professional at your organization. But by law, every supervisor has the same responsibility. That means they, too, have a need to know what you already do. And now there’s a special audio conference to help teach them. Yesterday’s Advisor broached the subject of what line supervisors and managers should do […]