Michael D. Mangan from DEKRA Insight discusses why “investigating and analyzing these hazards and weak signals to determine the exposure to operations” is just as important as anticipating and recognizing hazards.
Full article: Safety Leadership: Using inquiry to combat bias and investigate weak signals
Source: Safety Leadership
Are your ready for EPA’s updated Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) law?
Passed Congress this spring and awaiting President Obama’s signature, the Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act1 modernizes the 40-year-old Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) that was the cornerstone of chemical management in the United States
Full article: Are your ready for EPA’s updated Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) law?
Source: Safety Best Practices
Safety Leadership: For high reliability, start with the weak signals
Michael D. Mangan from DEKRA Insight discusses why “the signals of looming disaster aren’t always easy to detect” and details four practices that contribute to high-reliability performance.
Full article: Safety Leadership: For high reliability, start with the weak signals
Source: Safety Leadership
Guide to the New ANSI Cut Levels
In this infographic, Magid Glove explains new changes to the ANSI/ISEA 105-2016 cut protection standard: How to read the new cut level icon and how to choose the right cut level for the job.
Full article: Guide to the New ANSI Cut Levels
Source: Safety Info-Graphics
I wasn’t prepared to prevent my heart attack
Newsflash: None of us are getting out of this world alive. It is just a matter of how and when we die. Can you decipher the medical shorthand below?
Full article: I wasn’t prepared to prevent my heart attack
Source: Safety Best Practices
Infographic: A lifetime of risk
View or share a National Safety Month infographic summarizing the biggest risks at each stage of a person’s life.
Full article: Infographic: A lifetime of risk
Source: Safety Info-Graphics
Safety Leadership: Making SOPs a real safety tool
Susan L. Koen from RoundTheClock Resources, a partner of DEKRA Insight, discusses why the way standard operating procedures are designed, written, accessed and practiced “literally can make the difference between life and death.”
Full article: Safety Leadership: Making SOPs a real safety tool
Source: Safety Leadership
Expect workers in their 60s & 70s ill with chronic diseases
Technology and ingenuity have advanced today where reasonable accommodations may allow almost any worker to be productive and safe while performing almost any job.
Full article: Expect workers in their 60s & 70s ill with chronic diseases
Source: Safety Best Practices
Safety Leadership: $30 oil: More than a bad economic situation for the upstream oil industry
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.”
Full article: Safety Leadership: oil: More than a bad economic situation for the upstream oil industry
Source: Safety Leadership
2016 Job Outlook
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?
Full article: 2016 Job Outlook
Source: Safety Info-Graphics