News from the Safety Industry

EPA has proposed a rule about how the agency plans to conduct risk evaluations when determining whether a chemical substance presents an unreasonable risk of injury to health or the environment “without consideration of costs or other non-risk factors, including an unreasonable risk to a potentially [...]

National Association of Tower Erectors (NATE) has produced a video that highlights ANSI/ASSE A10.48. "This video is an outstanding resource for companies and workers,” says Josh Forrester of Vertical Limit Construction LLC in Wanamingo, MN. “Embracing and implementing the A10.48 standard into daily [...]

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Jan. 30 that will require agencies to cut two existing regulations for every new rule introduced.

Wyoming and Texas are the worst states for smoke-free workplaces, says the American Lung Association’s 15th annual State of Tobacco Control report for 2017. Both states received ALA’s lowest possible score—a zero—for smoke-free public and private work sites. Illinois, Maine, North Dakota, Oregon and [...]

Safety training is a leading tool implemented to promote incident and injury prevention. The objective of any training is to help people make safer decisions about actions they take in the workplace. "The catalyst to successful safety training is employee buy-in," says guest blogger Brei Richardson [...]

More than 80% of workers who have experienced mental issues say their physical health has been adversely affected, according to a survey of more than 4,000 British adults.

About 65% of workers say they have been in a situation where they had the proper safety tools to avoid a situation, but nobody listened to them. A recent ASSE webinar discussed new research surrounding psychological safety’s role in workplace safety.

"Culture can form at a glacier-like pace and feel just as difficult to move as a mountain of ice. It’s impossible to change culture overnight," says Gary Higbee, president/CEO of Higbee & Associates and a senior consultant with ASSE Diamond Sponsor SafeStart. While that fact may be frustrating, OSH [...]

In the January 2017 issue of PS, Jeff Dalto began a series of Training Tips articles that will analyze the recently updated ANSI/ASSE Z490.1, Criteria for Accepted Practices in Safety, Health and Environmental Training.

Nearly 27% of the EU population is expected to be over age 65 by 2040. To help understand OSH issues in the context of the aging workforce, European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) carried out a 3-year project, “Safer and Healthier Work at Any Age,” to examine the safety and health of [...]