Covid-19 interrupted and disrupted many concepts in health science plans. Now is the time for NIOSH to get back on track.
Full article: Do your health procedures measure up to NASA’s?
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Salary Survey 2022
The results of Safety+Health’s 2022 Salary Survey are in. We break down safety pro salaries by job title, experience, education level and more.
Full article: Salary Survey 2022
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Safety Leadership: Manage change before it manages you
“Leaders need to be in the habit of performing a checklist process on their own systems to ensure changes are safe and the facility is ready to go when a change is made,” says Sarah Eck of DEKRA.
Full article: Safety Leadership: Manage change before it manages you
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The vital need to conduct a lead risk assessment now
The cascade of generally well-known catastrophic events associated with lead exposure continue to unfold.
Full article: The vital need to conduct a lead risk assessment now
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Safety Leadership: The risk alignment challenge: How high-performing organizations respond
The risk alignment challenge: How high-performing organizations respond
“When there’s misalignment, the tolerance to risk increases at the front line, where the risk of injury is highest,” says Elizabeth Prazeres of DEKRA.
Full article: Safety Leadership: The risk alignment challenge: How high-performing organizations respond
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OSHA’s proposed lead rulemaking
Description: The U.S. Supreme Court’s June 2022 overturn of 1973 Roe v Wade has emboldened states to propose “fetal personhood” laws. What does this mean for proposed rulemaking for blood lead levels?
Full article: OSHA’s proposed lead rulemaking
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Safety Leadership: Setting supervisors up for safety success
“Provide them with strategies that enhance safety activities by incorporating leadership best practices,” says Claudia Lima of DEKRA.
Full article: Safety Leadership: Setting supervisors up for safety success
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Leaders with empathy are valuable
Who is more empathetic e.g., better able to recognize pain in a person’s face, a professional industrial hygienist, or a professional historian? A person’s empathy capacity may be partly determined by Empathy Quotient (EQ) scores.
Full article: Leaders with empathy are valuable
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Scope creep: Expand or establish limits of industrial hygiene capability?
Industrial hygiene began as a medical specialty in the early 1900s. Scope creep among OHS pros is occurring now and will expand in the future, too. The challenge for OHS pros, and others, is to know when to expand or establish limits of OHS capabilities.
Full article: Scope creep: Expand or establish limits of industrial hygiene capability?
Source: Safety Best Practices
The impact of overturn of Roe v Wade on workplaces
The court ruled in Roe that, “A person may choose to have an abortion until a fetus becomes viable, based on the right to privacy contained in the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Full article: The impact of overturn of Roe v Wade on workplaces
Source: Safety Best Practices