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Workplace safety doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Your organizational culture, processes, and challenges all impact your safety program and performance. Whether your company is growing, downsizing, transforming itself for a new generation, or simply trying to stay afloat in an increasingly competitive business climate, the question isn’t whether safety will be affected—it’s how.
Workers who have been through the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) 10-hour and 30-hour Outreach Training courses get course completion cards—but the courses don’t fulfill the training requirements of any specific OSHA standard. Does that mean you shouldn’t bother with it?
Now’s the time to entrench participation in your programs and extend your EHS platform across devices with minimal headache and heartache. Ensuring the health and safety of your workforce carries a huge amount of responsibility. You are your team’s most trusted advisor when it comes to improving well-being in your workplace.
In aspiring to achieve International Organisation for Standardization (ISO) 45001, the possibility exists that organisations will replace workers with artificial intelligence (AI) and robots to minimise their hazards and risks.
Kentucky recorded the lowest rate of nonfatal workplace incidents in its history. The latest data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) show Kentucky’s rate of recordable job injuries and illnesses dropped to 3.4 per 100 full-time employees in 2016. That’s down from a rate of 3.7 in 2015. In 1996, when the federal […]
California is in the process of amending its regulations for facilities that treat, store, and dispose of hazardous waste. The added compliance costs will most likely be passed on to hazardous waste generator customers. With the federal government taking a back seat on environmental regulations, your state regulators may look to states like California for […]
On April 13, 2017, the United States Air Force dropped a 21,600-pound (lb) Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) bomb—the most powerful nonnuclear bomb available to the U.S. military—on a system of tunnels and caves used by ISIS fighters in Afghanistan. It was the first time the MOAB bomb, which was originally developed in 2002, had […]
The National Safety Council (NSC) is urging caution as people plan road trips to celebrate holidays with family and friends.
Time. It’s the one commodity we can agree is always in short supply. Or is it? Perhaps it’s just what we do with the time we’re given that creates the perception it is escaping us. After all, we all have the same 24 hours in any given day. Managed well, time can pave the way […]
Businesses have long sought to balance the dual priorities of safety and productivity. Lockton Senior Loss Control Consultant Tim Balmer acknowledges the struggle.