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The EHS Daily Advisor editorial staff pick their favorite safety-centric songs to serve as the soundtrack to your workday.
As we wrap up the first week of 2024, it’s time to put the holiday celebrations and time off behind us and look ahead to the new year. To help you kick start your safety endeavors, EHS Daily Advisor’s Song of the Week is a short blast of indie rock awesomeness from the Breeders, appropriately […]
With the holidays upon us, many folks are focusing on family gatherings and gift exchanges. But it’s also a time for tension, which leads us to the EHSDA Song of the Week: “Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want to Fight Tonight)” by the Ramones. Originally released in November 1987 as the B-side of the single “I […]
Distracted driving is a huge safety issue. This week on EHS Daily Advisor, we wrote about how employers and employees can prevent distracted driving. There are many great songs about driving, but the Song of the Week honors go to “Roadrunner” by the Modern Lovers. Led by singer-songwriter Jonathan Richman, the Modern Lovers were formed […]
The holiday season is here and while people are gearing up for family gatherings, they’re also readying themselves for the onslaught of winter illnesses. EHS Daily Advisor this week wrote about preparing for a potential “tripledemic” of respiratory illnesses, including influenza, COVID-19, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), which could lead to a lot of pain. […]
This week, EHS Daily Advisor featured content on dealing with impaired employees in the workplace. Coincidentally, later in the week came the sad news of the death of Irish singer and songwriter Shane MacGowan, who fronted the Pogues and became a cautionary tale of sorts about the dangers of alcohol and drug abuse. Appropriately, the […]
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) recently launched a campaign to help reduce healthcare worker burnout and improve their mental health. In that spirit, the EHSDA Song of the Week is Metric’s “Help I’m Alive,” a 2008 indie rocker about overcoming stress. “Help I’m Alive” was the lead single on the Toronto-based […]
This week, EHS Daily Advisor hosted Technology NOW, a two-day online summit examining the impact of technology on EHS. The Song of the Week jumps back to the 1970s for a futuristic exploration of technology by German electronic music pioneers Kraftwerk. “The Robots” (or “Die Roboter”) was released in 1978 on the group’s seventh album, […]
Last week at the 2023 National Safety Council’s Safety Congress and Expo in New Orleans, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration unveiled its top 10 most-cited standards for the year, and for the 13th straight time, fall protection was in the top spot. To that end, the EHSDA Song of the Week is Julee Cruise’s […]
EHS Daily Advisor spent the beginning of this week in New Orleans attending the National Safety Council (NSC) Safety Congress and Expo, so it feels appropriate to feature New Orleans’ own The Meters in the Song of the Week. “Talkin’ Bout New Orleans” is a typically funky Meters jam, featured on the band’s sixth album […]
This week, a special issue of the journal Seminars in Hearing detailed 50 years of the National Insitute of Occupational Safety and Health’s (NIOSH) hearing loss prevention efforts. NIOSH has conducted extensive research into workplace noise exposure and hearing loss risks. Thus, the Song of the Week is a classic from the Rolling Stones, “Can’t […]