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The mining industry often uses shift work schedules with the intention to have a productive working mine around the clock. However, one potential side effect of operating on a 24/7 [...]

Where there are pallets, you almost certainly need pallet trucks. We look at what's on the market, and the features to look out for. PALLET MOVEMENTS are on the increase, [...]

Scientific research has provided little systematic information to guide efforts to facilitate emotional recovery in workplaces affected by disasters (North, et al., 2010). But without this knowledge, organizational mental health [...]

Occupational health & safety management systems (OHSMS) are becoming the method of choice for "high-performance" organizations looking for excellence in their safety and health process. This article is focused on […]

Tips for tire dealers, on how to reduce occurences of workplace accidents, are presented.

Without the guy in the field, the company goes down the tube,' said Charlie Campbell, the safety director for J.J. Kirlin Co. The Rockville, Md., mechanical contractor has 1,200 to [...]

Byline: David Learmount In the 22 years from 1992 to 2013, helicopter operators plying the UK sector of its offshore continental shelf (UKCS) in support of the oil and gas [...]

Byline: Kevin Rohlwing In July of 1988, President Ronald Reagan was giving a speech to the Future Farmers of America when he jokingly referred to the nine most terrifying words [...]

J.J. Keller has released a new training program to help fleets reduce the financial and environmental costs associated with Hazmat incidents. The program, Hazmat Training: What's Required & How to [...]

JUNE is National Safety month, and the National Safety Council has selected four areas of emphasis for its promotion of safety on and off the job: fall protection, emergency preparedness, [...]

Byline: Zolfkhani, M. The impact of jet fires on process equipment is critical, and it is important to examine possible design considerations that can mitigate many of the jet fire [...]

HSE plans steps to cut waste and recycling trade accidents â âA five-pronged plan to reduce the number of people killed and seriously injured in the waste and recycling industry [...]

by Greg Pitcher Employers with good workplace safety records could pay less tax and win more government contracts under new EU plans. MEPs in Strasbourg voted last week in favour [...]

Equipment safety and the reduction of accidents, injuries and fatalities is one of the top priorities on any jobsite. According to the National Stone, Sand & Gravel Association, the injury [...]

As usual, never consider the following commentary associated with these photos as a formal interpretation of the National Electrical Code (NEC). Without criticizing anyone or any product, the following scenarios [...]

Towerswitch LLC, an engineering firm based in Deerfield Beach, FL, has introduced Talking Alert! a new digital audio device designed to dramatically reduce accidents in the workplace. The system, which [...]

A study on worker deaths caused by their use of heavy equipment during construction works at excavation sites is discussed.

The Choices We Make Are the Chances We Take We spend most of our lives on cruise control, not thinking about the inherent dangers of everyday life. That mentality led [...]

Staff The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Georgia Utility Contractors Association, Inc. (GUCA), the Georgia Hispanic Contractors Association (GHCA), and six Metro Area Fire Departments [...]

Erick Ajax will never forget an explosion that shook his plant about 18 months ago. 'It went off like a bomb, sending pieces of shrapnel and steel flying at chest [...]

Relationships play a huge role in the culture of a workplace, especially when it comes to safety. Jill James, Vivid Learning Systems' resident safety consultant and former OSHA Safety Investigator, [...]

The human body has limitations. One is the body's ability to handle extreme heat even though there may be a wide range of heat tolerance between workers. When a body [...]

No, not me, I'm never a safety bully.' Oh really? Let's start this discussion of safety bullying by talking about discipline. I've met many managers who give a negative lecture [...]

Driven to Distraction at Work: How to Focus and Be More Productive by Edward M. Hallowell, M.D., introduces the term attention deficit trait (ADT), which he feels people in all [...]

I have seen considerable resistance, even from safety professionals, when it comes to trying to instill an 'all accidents are preventable' culture. In spite of the resistance, I believe: 1) [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Safety practices are a matter of life and death for manufacturing employees. New research from Towers Perrin-ISR, an employee research and consulting firm, has found a direct link […]

Robert Thummer, head of technology for paper manufacturer Sappi Group discuss the implementation of 'Project Zero' program aimed for reducing workplace accidents.

With today's advances in engineering and safety, why is it one maintenance person is either killed or injured each day in an electrically-related incident? In my opinion, it is possible [...]

The integration of health, safety and environmental management is discussed. The Act-Plan-Do-Check diagram depicts the simplest integration form of health, safety and environment under the general structure of a management system.

There seems to be some confusion about the calibration of gas monitors. It's very simple, really. Gas monitors are life-saving devices. They are precision instruments that are intended solely to [...]

CDM REGULATIONS The original 1994 Construction (Design and Management) Regulations arose out of the 1992 EU Temporary and Mobile Construction Sites Directive. But the Directive itself was hugely influenced by [...]

FIVE YEARS AGO, WHEN Maggine Fuentes joined Core Systems as HR manager, she knew she would have to make injury reduction her top priority. Accidents at the 500-plus-employee plastic injection […]

Zero tolerance. The National Labor Relations Board has determined that an employee who sent an e-mail to her colleagues regarding a possible anthrax threat could be terminated under her employer's [...]

Once gone, hearing does not come back, but workers are becoming more informed about the importance of protecting their hearing, says audiologist Karen Vye. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Vye is the noise [...]