News from the Safety Industry

OSHA's portal for collecting e-recordkeeping data will open Aug. 1. This follows a June 28, 2017, notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to extend the deadline for submitting these data to Dec. 1, 2017, to allow affected entities more time to familiarize themselves with the system.

ASSE International member Raghuvaran Chakkravarthy is a safety professional from India, working for a company based in the U.S., overseeing safety in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. In this guest post he shares some thoughts on construction safety, lessons learned and best practices that form how safet [...]

A fall on the same level is a slip, trip or fall in which a worker impacts either the surface or an object at the same level or above the surface on which s/he is standing. These incidents an occur just about anywhere and they are among the leading causes of work-related injuries in workplaces aroun [...]

The world has gone digital, yet many companies aren't when it comes to safety. While machines, methods and processes have evolved, risk and safety management has more or less stayed the same. It may have made sense a decade ago to seperate risk and safety functions, but in today’s environment, negle [...]

Grainger’s white paper, “How We Should Talk About Safety Culture: Rewriting the Conversation,” introduces a model that redefines safety culture as an outcome of what management says about safety and what workers see, rather than a starting point that regulates safety practices.

Over the years, workplace safety and employee wellness functions have largely operated independently within many organizations. More recently, however, there's been a movement to better integrate health protection (safety) and health promotion (wellness). Resources include NIOSH's Total Worker Healt [...]

European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) published a VeSafe e-guide that covers safe driving, workplace transportation and working on or near a road. The tool enables a person to explore risks and preventive measures based on various factors, including vehicle type, task and location. [...]

Drug use in the American workforce, fueled by illicit drugs, reached the highest positivity rate in 12 years, according to an analysis of more than 10 million workforce drug test results assessed by Quest Diagnostics. Overall, positivity in urine drug testing among the combined U.S. workforce in 201 [...]

Employers fear inconsistent enforcement of an OSHA rule allowing some work to be done without ordinarily required fall protection because key terms are not defined. OSHA’s updated fall protection rule, which went into effect Jan. 17, allows certain activities to be done without fall protection syste [...]

On July 11, the House Appropriations Committee released its FY2018 Interior and Environment Appropriations bill, which is now being considered in subcommittee. The legislation address funding for the Chemical Safety Board (CSB), which the Trump Administration proposed to eliminate. Under this bill, [...]