News from the Safety Industry

In a guest post, Jay Brakensiek, CSP, recalls the first Earth Day in 1970.

To help employers improve seat belt usage among employees and, in turn, reduce the human and financial toll of traffic crashes, NETS has developed a free online toolkit called 2seconds2click.

On Wednesday, April 20, Heather Ingraham, principal, environmental scientist at AECOM will present the "ISO 14001:2015 Environmental Management Systems (EMS) for a New Era" webinar just in time for Earth Day. The presentation will offer a deep dive orientation of the newly organized standard, as we [...]

The American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) today announced Thomas Kramer, managing principal at LJB Inc., an Ohio-based civil engineering firm, as the 2016 Edgar Monsanto Queeny Safety Professional of the Year for his leadership in helping develop more than 18 fall protection standards.

U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has issued a report on the need to provide additional measures to protect the 15 million healthcare workers in the U.S. from workplace violence. The report reviews efforts by federal OSHA (and state OSHA plans) to address workplace violence in healthcare. [...]

A new page on the NIOSH website provides information on the Zika virus, including information regarding travel, prevention and risks.

A coalition of trucking interests has come out bluntly critical of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s efforts to put in place its proposed safety fitness determination rule.

May is National Electrical Safety Month, and Electrical Safety Foundation International (ESFI) is raising awareness to educate the public about electrical safety hazards to reduce the number of electrical-related fires, fatalities, injuries and property loss.

In his TED talk, “The Surprising Habits of Original Thinkers,” organizational psychologist Adam Grant shares three things that he has learned about originals—what he calls people who “dream up new ideas and take action to put them into the world.”

NIOSH is offering free, confidential health screenings to coal miners to provide early detection of the occupational lung disease known as black lung.​