News from the Safety Industry

We believe OSH Professionals will have interest in the newly released ANSI/ASSE Z359.16-2016 American National Standard (Safety Requirements for Climbing Ladder Fall Arrest Systems). This is an issue/concern faced by many of you and we believe this standard will help in preventing worker fatality an [...]

Greetings: Just a notice that we are soliciting candidates for the Thomas F. Bresnahan Standards Medal. Information on the award is below – nominations need to be submitted electronically to Tim Fisher (TFisher@ASSE.Org) by April 7th. The form is below, and a reminder that a complete and detailed p [...]

The Trump Administration’s budget blueprint for FY2018 is out. It’s mostly an outline with some specifics. The Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) is eliminated off the bat.

Researchers are seeking to determine the effectiveness of current OSH education programs at community and technical colleges. The project is being conducted by researchers from UC Berkeley’s Labor Occupational Health Program (LOHP) and West Virginia University and funded through a grant from CPWR, T [...]

The British Parliament debated a petition to make it illegal for a company to require women to wear high heels at work on March 6, 2017. The petition, which received more than 152,000 signatures, was created by Nicola Thorp after she was she was sent home without pay for refusing to wear high heels [...]

ASSE's Risk Assessment Institute has released it's latest video, Bowtie Methodology. The video offers a brief overview of bowtie methodology, which is a tool used to visually map and analyze causal relationships in complex workplace risks.

Combustible dust is a recurring yet often overlooked hazard in many industrial facilities. For many, it can be hard to understand how something called dust can pose dangers. Other oversights include underestimating the hazards present and having an apathetic attitude toward them.

A CDC study published in this month's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report found significant differences in short sleep duration (less than 7 hours a night) among occupational groups. “Short sleep duration has been linked to various negative health outcomes including cardiovascular disease, obesity [...]

The U.S. Senate voted to eliminate the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces order that would have required contractors to disclose and correct serious safety violations in order to compete for federal contracts. A similar measure already passed in the House, and it is expected that President Trump will fina [...]

ISO 31000:2009 on risk management principles and guidelines (adopted in the U.S. as ANSI/ASSE Z690.2) is being revised to make the standard easier to apply and clearer in its guidance. The revision is now at the draft international standard (DIS) stage and is available for public comment. The next s [...]