News from the Safety Industry

In introducing OSHA’s recordkeeping rule that will require employers in high-hazard industries to send their injury and illness data (which they must already collect) for posting on the agency’s website, OSHA Administrator David Michaels called the rule a “simple change” that will improve safety for [...]

ASSE Statement on OSHA’s Electronic Recordkeeping Rule

Walsh Construction’s Milwaukee office invited 3M Fall Protection to the Zoo Interchange construction site for a National Safety Stand-Down event. When building a bridge or highway interchanges, contractors are not only working at height, but they are doing so in low-light conditions where traffic is [...]

Strategies used to manage musculoskeletal injuries range widely from reactive to proactive and are based on various approaches, including changing personal wellness, fitness and employee work behaviors, and changing the workplace to better fit employee capabilities.

With its release of two guidance documents on temporary workers, OSHA reminds both host employers and temporary staffing agencies that they are responsible for temporary worker safety. The new documents address temporary workers in relation to HazCom, and safety and health training.

Each day, 13 U.S. workers die as a result of a traumatic injury. Companies typically investigate these incidents to identify causal factors and hopefully take action to prevent recurrence. Unfortunately, the findings of and lessons learned through those investigations may never be shared outside tho [...]

To help organizations understand how their ergonomics programs measure up to others and how these programs are structured, Aon conducted a survey of OSH and ergonomics professionals about the function and effectiveness of ergonomics programs.

A recent NIOSH study quantifies the disability-adjusted life years attributable to hearing impairment for U.S. workers exposed to occupational noise, and estimates the prevalence of six severity levels of hearing impairment by industry sector.

This is the 25th year that AFL-CIO has produced its report on worker safety and health protections in the U.S. "Death on the Job: The Toll of Neglect" provides a national and state-by-state profile of worker safety and health. It highlights the higher risk experienced by Latino workers, older worker [...]

ASSE members and Occupational Safety and Health Professionals continue to ask for a status on the pending revision of the ANSI/ASSE Z117.1 Standard (Safety Requirements for Confined Spaces) and the proposed new standard ANSI/ASSE A10.43. Both of these standards address confined space entry, but A10 [...]