News from the Safety Industry

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 [...]

Home healthcare caregivers typically work alone and often do not have the same protections against workplace hazards as their counterparts in traditional healthcare settings. To help these caregivers and the agencies that employ them, NIOSH has developed a web-based training curriculum.

he horrific images and stories published in the aftermath of the 2012 Tazreen Fashion factory fire and the Rana Plaza collapse in 2013 caused public outrage, protests and angry declarations from all corners. But the tragedies did more than just turn the world's spotlight on the plight of workers in [...]

Guest blogger Steve Minshall talks about his change encounter with Bruce Lyon at Safety 2016. Bruce has coauthored several articles in Professional Safety and now has coauthored the book Risk Assessment: A Practical Guide to Assessing Operational Risks. According to Minshall, it's a must-have for to [...]

CDC has developed an application called Solve the Outbreak that lets users take a peek into the world of epidemiology by getting to the bottom of a disease related mystery. CDC scientists try to solve disease outbreaks every day to help save lives and protect the public by figuring out how the outbr [...]

From guest blogger Chet Brandon: "Great opening day at Safety 2016! One of my favorite parts of the annual conference is the opening session. Most of the attendees are present in one big hall with a dramatically arranged stage. The large number of people, and the grand stage with our leadership owni [...]