Topping the list for the 11th straight year is Fall Protection – General Requirements. Also: The Top 10 “willful” and “serious” violations, a list of the year’s highest penalties, and an exclusive Q&A with OSHA’s Patrick Kapust.
Full article: OSHA’s Top 10 most cited violations for FY 2021
Source: Safety Info-Graphics
Safety Leadership: The worker’s role in managing and controlling safety
“Safe decision-making is an outcome of the interaction between leadership and frontline employees – not just action by one or both,” says Jack Balsamo of DEKRA.
Full article: Safety Leadership: The worker’s role in managing and controlling safety
Source: Safety Leadership
Vapor: An argument for the defense
Among the properties of chemicals such as molecular weight, solubility, reactivity, pH and such, vapor pressure (VP) is the most important property for worker health considerations.
Full article: Vapor: An argument for the defense
Source: Safety Best Practices
Salary Survey 2021
Safety+Health presents the results of its annual salary survey – now with more information than before thanks to a partnership with the Board of Certified Safety Professionals.
Full article: Salary Survey 2021
Source: Safety Info-Graphics
Safety Leadership: Behavior-based safety is needed now more than ever
“For this to happen means proving wrong some prevailing myths about BBS,” says Rebecca Timmins of DEKRA.
Full article: Safety Leadership: Behavior-based safety is needed now more than ever
Source: Safety Leadership
OHS expert witnesses in demand with new forms of litigation due to workplace injury disputes
In the earliest days of OHS, disputes of who was responsible for the payment of a workplace injury or illness was settled by litigation. Every US state eventually passed workers’ compensation insurance law to establish a no-fault system where responsibility for injury/illness payment nearly always falls upon the employer.
Full article: OHS expert witnesses in demand with new forms of litigation due to workplace injury disputes
Source: Safety Best Practices
Safety Leadership: More than a manager: Leaders are needed to avoid organizational complacency
“Organizations must reframe success not just by the services or products they provide, but in the conduct of their leaders,” says Sarah Eck of DEKRA.
Full article: Safety Leadership: More than a manager: Leaders are needed to avoid organizational complacency
Source: Safety Leadership
Do we trust professional industrial hygienists’ judgment?
Anyone may call themselves an industrial hygienist and anyone may practice industrial hygiene. No license, certificate, formal education, or years of experience are required for someone to practice industrial hygiene in the United States. Whether IH is a profession, trade or practice is just semantics.
Full article: Do we trust professional industrial hygienists’ judgment?
Source: Safety Best Practices
Safety Leadership: Using artificial intelligence to identify serious injury and fatality potential: Part II
“By using a different approach, we can achieve our two primary objectives: removing the subjectivity and delay in determining SIF potential,” says Don Groover of DEKRA. “The approach is to use an expert logic system.”
Full article: Safety Leadership: Using artificial intelligence to identify serious injury and fatality potential: Part II
Source: Safety Leadership
Are long work hours unhealthy? The issue is more complex than it initially appears
Long working hours are now considered by the WHO/ILO to be the occupational risk factor with the largest attributable disease burden. WHO/ILO advise, “Protecting and promoting occupational and workers’ safety and health requires interventions to reduce hazardous long working hours.”
Full article: Are long work hours unhealthy? The issue is more complex than it initially appears
Source: Safety Best Practices