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Want to estimate the costs of workplace accidents? OSHA has a tool for doing just that. In addition to the costs in pain and suffering to workers and their families, workplace accidents have a major impact on your bottom line. The Liberty Mutual Workplace Safety Index for 2010 estimates that employers nationwide pay over $1 […]
Try these recommendations for promoting the business value of investments in EHS to your management. To promote the business value of investments in environmental, health, and safety programs, says BLR legal editor David Galt, you have to speak the language of your CFO. That’s just one of the tips Galt offered at a meeting of […]
How much time do your employees spend on the road? Statistically speaking, it’s likely that they spend more time on the road than ever before. America’s consumption of gasoline for transportation has increased steadily since 2012—it dipped downward from 2008–2012 because of the recession, but then it began climbing again—despite steady increases in federal fuel […]
As required by the 2016 amendments to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), the EPA has issued its second annual plan identifying existing chemical substances for which risk evaluations are expected to be initiated or completed in 2018, the resources necessary for their completion, the status of each risk evaluation initiated but not yet completed, […]
Our Safety Training Tips editor gives some advice for training your employees on the essentials of machine guarding. Amputations are all too common injuries for employees who work on or around machines. Because of these and other sometimes gruesome machine dangers, OSHA has extensive regulations for machine guarding in 29 CFR 1910 Subpart O Machinery […]
Before his resignation, Volkswagen AG CEO Martin Winterkorn, publically apologized for emission defeat or cheat devices found in Volkswagen diesel passenger cars sold in the U.S. Volkswagen now faces serious and costly violations under the Clean Air Act (CAA).
To receive management support, safety programs must be objectively evaluated in quantifiable terms. Here are effective ways to do it. It’s often been said that business runs on numbers. Profit. Loss. Return on investment. It’s the language senior management speaks and understands. And it’s the reason many safety managers who talk exclusively in terms of […]