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The article discusses the results of the inaugural Training Survey conducted by the magazine "Safety+Health." The survey detailed training budgets for safety professionals of companies and their preferred training methods. Safety professionals also identified the challenges they encountered regarding safety training, as well as the lessons they learned from their training programs.

The article focuses on importance and need for training and orientation program of new workers in an organization so as to maintain their safety during work. Topics discussed include suggestions for new workers to report their supervisor if any accident takes place; avoid assigning tasks involving hazardous duties; and views of Scott Schneider, director of occupational safety and health at the Laborers' Health and Safety Fund of North America, on the same.

The article discusses the stop-work authority (SWA) policy that allows all workers to shut down operations in a hazardous condition. Topics include views of Eddie Greer of Board of Certified Safety Professionals on the policy, human behavior to be taken into account while implementing SWA, and need of training to workers on how to intervene and stop a co-worker's job if it is being done unsafely.

The article presents several questions and answers related to industrial safety including training of employees on fire safety, cut-resistance standards and effect of the change in threshold limit value by the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists, on safety audits.

The article offers tips on how to put life back on emergency education programs and keep employees engaged on the activities. It suggests to provide hands-on training to employees to cement skills needed when real fire accident happens. Also recommended is to provide them with fire extinguisher training and to teach with company-sanctioned response to better prepare them on actual cases.

The article offers U.S. states workers news brief as of August 2015. It mentions effort of the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development to highlight the importance of training workers on safe trench work and excavations, in response to death of a construction worker in a trenching incident. It adds Michigan State University's report which reveals decrease in work-related deaths in Michigan in 2013. It discusses the Workplace Safety Committee Certification Programme in Pennsylvania.

The article reports on the incorporation of the United Nations' Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS) into the Hazard Communication Standard of the U.S. Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) in 2012. It mentions that chemicals manufacturers in the U.S. are asked to ship out hazardous chemicals with new labels as required by the OSHA's updated standard from June 1, 2015. Also discussed is about training employees concerning updated standard.

The article presents case study of a 46-year-old equipment operator working who died when a horizontal auger boring machine overturned and crushed him. It mentions that the other workers at the site performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on the victim but he died on his way to the hospital. It adds several suggestions to prevent future accidents which includes training of employees, prevention of auger upset during designing the machine and addition of more safety features.