News from the Safety Industry

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 [...]

In a survey of U.S. adults who work outdoors at least half the time, Deb Group found that only 18% always wear sunscreen while on the job, despite their increased exposure to UV radiation and the accompanying increased risk of developing skin cancer and other problems.

NIOSH recently launched its 10-year National Occupational Research Agenda to advance Total Worker Health (TWH) research, practice and policy.The 2016-2026 agenda addresses stakeholder comments and expands the definition of TWH, fine tuning what it means for a workplace to place priority on a hazard- [...]

Historically, the leading cause of death of construction workers is falls. Throughout OSHA’s National Safety Stand-Down this week, construction workers across the country have been taking a break from their work day to discuss fall protection. In the Twin Cities, three Minnesota-based companies came [...]