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A decade-old standard developed to help companies with risk management has been revised and adopted as a U.S. national standard. The new version reflects the evolution of risk management from a separate, departmentalized activity to an integrated management competency.

Full article: Risk management standard gets an update
Source: Safety Best Practices

Do blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs) affixed to forklifts pose an unnecessary risk? Prompted by employee concerns, a client asked me this question. Choose your answer now, and see if it wavers or changes as you progress through this article.

Full article: Concerns grow over high-intensity blue LEDs
Source: Safety Best Practices

Preventive safety evaluations help protect personnel and equipment, cut costly downtime and losses, and minimize liability exposure. This article highlights common areas of hazards in a manufacturing facility, and some potential solutions to explore.

Full article: Guard against these 8 manufacturing hazards
Source: Safety Best Practices

Roughly 38 million people will commence with a digging project this year without first having underground utility lines marked, and a line is damaged once every nine minutes because someone started digging without first calling 811.

Full article: Call 811 before you dig
Source: Safety Best Practices

IQ may be a predictor of who suffers an injury or illness at work. A 68-year population study published in 20171 found that IQ is inversely associated with all major causes of death, including accidents.

Full article: Intelligence as a safety & health metric
Source: Safety Best Practices

We are the indoor generation. The EPA’s National Human Activity Pattern Survey (NHAPS) conducted 1992-1994 found that Americans spend about 87% of their time in enclosed buildings and about 6% of their time in enclosed vehicles.

Full article: Home Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) assessments present challenges
Source: Safety Best Practices

Preventive safety evaluations help protect personnel and equipment, cut costly downtime and losses, and minimize liability exposure. These are often known as Residual Risk Reduction or R3. This article highlights common areas of hazards in a manufacturing facility, and some potential solutions to explore.

Full article: 8 common manufacturing safety hazards & solutions
Source: Safety Best Practices

If there’s no occupational exposure limit (OEL) listed for a chemical ingredient or byproduct in a SDS, you can conduct an online search for the chemical by CAS number and include the qualifier DNEL — derived no effect levels. CAS is required on an SDS, DNEL is not.

Full article: 8 practices for managing chemical exposures
Source: Safety Best Practices

Behavior-based approaches to safety versus the promise of “Safety II” type approaches like Human and Organizational Performance (HOP) will be explored through a series of sessions at Safety 2018. Are the two approaches contradictory or complementary? How do employee perceptions affect safety?

Full article: BBS v. HOP at Safety 2018
Source: Safety Best Practices

Yesterday’s risk management practices are no longer adequate to deal with today’s threats and they need to evolve. This reasoning drove ISO to revise risk management standard 31000:2009 to 31000:2018.2

Full article: Not your father’s risk management
Source: Safety Best Practices