News from the Safety Industry

To share best practices on how employers and safety professionals can help keep these workers safe, the American Society of Safety Engineers is hosting a live webinar called Work Zone Safety for Highway Construction beginning at 11 a.m. Wednesday, September 7, 2016.

September is National Preparedness Month. What are your plans? Learn about resources available from FEMA to help you plan for and respond to emergencies.​

ASSE Fellows and former Society presidents Kathy A. Seabrook, CSP, CFIOSH, EurOSHM, and Darryl C. Hill, Ph.D., CSP, recently presented a webinar that examined the connection between human capital, OSH and materiality. Environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues and the risks and opportunities [...]

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 [...]

CDC will hold a public web meeting to discuss future directions for NIOSH's Center for Motor Vehicle Safety (CMVS). The meeting will be Sept. 14, 2016, from 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm EDT, and will be available only by remote access.

On August 25, U.S. Department of Labor published final guidance on the Obama administration's Fair Pay & Safe Workplaces Executive Order. This law aims to ensure compliance with labor laws for employers awarded federal contracts by helping the government identity responsible companies with a history [...]

OSHA Administrator David Michaels has raised the issue of how the media and the public pay little attention to the nearly 14 deaths that occur each day in U.S. workplaces, especially when so much attention has been focused on the 14 deaths surrounding the Takata air bag scandal.

Craft brewers have carved out a unique niche in the beer industry, and the segment continues to grow. Recent data from The Brewers Association shows that independent craft brewers now have a 12% market share in the industry. As market share grows so, too, do the number of operating breweries, up 15% [...]

The latest CDC Foundation Business Pulse interactive infographic examines motor vehicle safety at work, paying particular attention to four challenges facing businesses: fatalities, cost burden, complex risk, international business travel.

The revision of ANSI/ASSE Z359.1, Safety Requirements for Personal Fall Arrest Systems, Subsystems and Components, recently received final ANSI administrative approval. Z359.1 underwent fundamental changes from the 2007 version. Essentially, it is a new standard with regard to technical content, not [...]