News from the Safety Industry

The NIOSH Center for Motor Vehicle Safety recently released a new issue of its quarterly eNewsletter, Behind the Wheel at Work.

EPA and Pesticide Educational Resources Collaborative have released a how-to guide that helps explain compliance to EPA’s revised Worker Protection Standard.

According to Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are more than 2.3 million workers in building custodial services occupations in the U.S.; that total is expected to rise to 2.56 million by 2020. Cleaning workers face all types of dangers and hazards when performing their regular tasks, especially in t [...]

Former ASSE President Trish Ennis, M.S., CSP, ARM, CRIS, is presenting two sessions at SeminarFest 2017 – “Strategic Thinking for Excellence in Safety” and “Effective Communications for the Safety Professional.” Recently, Ennis took some time to discuss why strategic thinking and effective communica [...]

ASSE’s Ergonomics Practice Specialty (ErgoPS) polled more than 300 ergonomics practitioners to learn about the ergonomics training, skill and resource needs in the practitioners’ working area. Further, the group explored whether a good match exists between the practitioner and marketplace needs by c [...]

October is National Protect Your Hearing Month and National Audiology Awareness Month. Occupational hearing loss is one of the most common work-related illnesses in the U.S. Approximately 22 million U.S. workers are exposed to hazardous noise levels at work, and an additional 9 million are exposed [...]

A study done by NIOSH in collaboration with the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute examined sleep patterns of 96 commercial truck drivers during their non-work periods and evaluated the influence of these sleep patterns on subsequent performance during work periods. This was measured by safety-c [...]

Engaging employees in learning is one of the most effective ways to help them transfer skills learned in the classroom to the shop floor. It also helps if you enlist them in training their family members to be safe.

ASSE’s Ergonomics Practice Specialty (ErgoPS) polled more than 300 ergonomics practitioners to learn about the ergonomics training, skill and resource needs in the practitioners’ working area. Further, the group explored whether a good match exists between the practitioner and marketplace needs by c [...]

ASSE President Elect Jim Smith, a WISE guy himself, encourages OSH professionals to consider signing up for the mentoring program offered by ASSE's Women in Safety Engineering (WISE) Common Interest Group.