News from the Safety Industry

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" [...]

The US Department of Labor offered a webinar last week on "Promising Employer Practices for Recruiting and Retaining Women in the Construction Industry."

Workplace safety best practices are often intangible characteristics that employees take on as their own, so it makes sense that there are a few misconceptions floating around. When there's not an exact science as to how to keep employees safe, there's bound to be confusion about what is/is not true [...]

The final numbers are in, and ASSE has officially held its biggest safety conference and exposition in the event’s 56-year history. Safety 2017 in Denver attracted 5,244 attendees and 640 exhibitors, easily surpassing its previous highs. Attendance was up 23 percent from last year’s event. Nearly on [...]

As noted in the EHS Works blog on July 19, 2017, PBS NewsHour broadcast a report showing that some U.S. shipbuilders continue to receive government contracts despite significant safety lapses. Jim Thornton, ASSE's Vice President of Professional Affairs, says the report fails to acknowledge the safet [...]

NIOSH and Workforce Tulsa are collaborating to develop and pilot test a new training program, "Developing Work Safety Skills," to promote workplace safety and health practices among young adults seeking career services and temporary employment opportunities.

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 first of a three-post series, he talks about the [...]

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