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In the past few months, disasters have been prominent, from the Texas fertilizer plan explosion to the Boston bombings and the Oklahoma tornado. In light of those events, we present a 4-step disaster preparedness plan for the workplace. Step 1: Establish a Planning Team The size of the planning team depends on your facility’s operations, […]
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 […]
Defensive driving awareness training can prevent highway tragedies involving your employees, whether they’re driving on the job or simply commuting to and from work. Roadway accidents not only kill employees such as truck drivers, who spend most of their time on the road, but also employees who simply are using their own or a company […]
The Trump administration has twice proposed to slash the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) budget by record amounts, and Congress keeps refusing to do it.
Today our Safety Training Tips Editor explains why it is important to take your safety training sessions beyond lectures and written materials. Learning research shows that after a few days most people only remember about 10 percent of what they read, maybe 20 percent of what they hear, and perhaps 30 percent of what they […]
Sometimes safety ideas are so powerful they bear repeating. That goes double when they’re simple to understand and implement … like these. If you think effective safety has to be complex and expensive, think again. We’ve found a safety thinker, consultant Mike Strawbridge of Cleveland, Tennessee, who uses mostly common sense to reach a safety […]
For more and more workplaces the cure for the upward spiral of employee ill health and healthcare costs is workplace wellness. The benefits can be significant. For years, worksite health promotion was one of those ideas that employers talked about in a "How could it hurt?" kind of way. But these days, the business case […]
National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week was established by Congress in 1999 to occur each year during the last week in October. “Lead can cause irreversible and life-long health effects, including decreasing IQ, focus, and academic achievement in children,” reports the EPA. “While lead is dangerous to all children, not all children are equally exposed to […]
Your confined space rescue plans should include a decision about rescue services. Here are some things you should know if you decide on using an off-site rescue service. Depending on the hazards of a confined space, you might need a rescue team to be on standby during a confined space entry so that it can […]
2014 Year in Review! Click through for the top five articles from this past year on the Environmental Daily Advisor!