News from the Safety Industry

Recreational marijuana is expected to become legal in Canada by July 2018. To help workplaces prepare for the potential safety challenges and impacts of the proposed legislation, the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety published a white paper, "Workplace Strategies: Risk of Impairment [...]

National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and National Safety Council recently hosted a roundtable on advanced driver assistance systems for commercial trucks. Despite the growing availability of these technologies, many trucking organizations and independent operators have not fully embraced them [...]

NIOSH’s Office of Construction Safety and Health collaborated with the U.S. Green Building Council to develop a Prevention through Design (PTD) Pilot Credit. The intent of the credit is to support high-performance cost-effective employee safety and health outcomes across the building life-cycle thro [...]

The Center for Safety and Health Sustainability issued a report on its second analysis of how recognized “sustainable” companies report occupational injuries, illnesses and fatalities. It's a step forward in showing how global initiatives that index corporate sustainability can include companies’ co [...]

In public health circles, prolonged sitting has been dubbed the new smoking. Research suggests prolonged sitting can contribute to diabetes, heart disease and other health conditions. In its new eBook, COBA Europe examines the detrimental effects of prolonged static work positions--both standing and [...]

Guest poster Rick Franklin has worked for 42 years as a forensic engineer. During that time, he has seen 14 significant, but mostly unknown, improvements to consumer products and automobiles that prevented fires, incidents, injuries and deaths. In the second of a three-post series, he talks about fi [...]

Bakersfield ChapterWISE members celebrate Platinum-Level Distinction award; recap of the USDOL Women's Bureau Webinar on recruiting and retaining women in the construction industry. AgriSafe Think Tank to Explore Emerging Issues Facing Farm Women

This week's digest features some microlearning snippets taken from a sampling of speakers at Safety 2017. Enjoy!

ASSE's standards committees have made progress in advancing OSH with several recent standards developments. “If we are not sure which path to take, then we must take the bold one,” says former ASSE Standards Development Committee Chair Gary Lopez. “ASSE is trying to move OSH forward with standards a [...]

The highly anticipated ISO 45001 standard on occupational safety and health management systems has moved another big step toward publication. The second version of the draft international standard (DIS #2) has been approved. The U.S. (through ANSI) voted in favor of the standard ("yes with comments" [...]