News from the Safety Industry

The phenomenal success of Nintendo's Pokemon Go has brought with it an unexpected and likely unintended consequence--people placing themselves in danger.​

During the third quarter of FY2016, OSHA issued a wide range of compliance assistance resources.

On June 22, OSHA sent final text of the walking-working surfaces rule to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for what is anticipated will be the last review before publication. This means the final rule could be published by late September.

Are you considering getting a professional designation such as the CSP? BCSP offers a seven-step guide to help you navigate the necessary steps as well as an online safety calculator.

To celebrate its 70th anniversary, CDC has created a timeline of the many firsts the agency has experienced in helping prevent diseases around the globe.​

In a recent EPA Forward blog post, EPA reminds farmworkers and their families of the protections provided by the agency’s updated Worker Protection Standard, revised last fall.

What does it take to implement a crisis-ready culture? An infographic from crisis management strategist Melissa Agnes offers a clear strategy for changing the organizational mind-set.

A team of researchers from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has developed what the team calls a map of the world’s chemical landscape. Essentially, it is a catalogue of 10,000 chemicals for which safety data is available that can be used to predict the toxicity of some 90,000 other su [...]

According to OSHA, more than 500,000 workers are employed in laboratories in the U.S.Many occupational incidents that occur in laboratories can be avoided or minimized with proper preventive measures. Workrite Uniform Co. offers a top 5 list of laboratory hazards and how to prevent these hazards fro [...]

European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) launched a project designed to identify success factors of policies, strategies and practical solutions to improve OSH in Europe’s micro and small enterprises (MSEs), which tend to be at greater risk of workplace injuries and illnesses than the [...]