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Across industries, workers are changing jobs more frequently than their parents and grandparents did. Safety+Health’s 2016 Job Outlook survey asked: How does job turnover among safety pros affect worker safety?
The era of criminal prosecutions for violations of workplace safety laws being rare may be over, as the Departments of Justice and Labor have agreed to work closer together. Is this a new world of safety, or simply a patch for a broken system?
OSHA announced on March 24 the release of a final rule intended to protect workers from respirable crystalline silica. The agency claims the rule will save more than 600 lives and prevent more than 900 cases of the lung disease silicosis per year, but critics argue the rule is unnecessary and compliance will be costly.
Safety+Health Editor Melissa Ruminski writes about the results of the 2016 Job Outlook survey, and says goodbye to two S+H staff members: Copy Editor Bryan O'Donnell and Senior Associate Editor Kyle W. Morrison.
Almost every OSHA rule is reviewed by the White House’s Office of Management and Budget before being promulgated. Why do those reviews often take so much longer than the 90 days they are supposed to take?
Jim Spigener from DEKRA Insight details why the downturn in the oil industry is also producing “some very real, very serious implications to safety both at the worker level and in the process safety arena.”
Veteran safety pro turned professional speaker Richard Hawk explains why a competent safety professional who laughs a lot or is funny “can be a smart combination.”
Al Zucco from USG Corp. discusses three pillars that help engage all stakeholders in sustainability and reminds us that safety is the cornerstone of what all organizations do.
