Responding is Gregory Boothe, Ph.D., CIH, CSP, faculty lead for occupational safety and health, Columbia Southern University, Orange Beach, AL. When introducing a safety management program, safety ...

Responding is Matt Terronez, business development manager, Grainger, Lake Forest, IL. A comprehensive online safety management system can provide tools to help you identify and meet obligations under ...

The construction industry is full of risks. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average Total Recordable Incident Rate (TRIR) for all industries, including state and local government, is ...

Prior to 1911 (first state to enacted workers compensation law) organizations cared little or not at all when it came to work related accidents and injuries. Many progressive states enacted workers ...

At the time of the methyl isocyanate release at Bhopal, I was working in the corporate offices of a Fortune 50 company. The stillness of the air in the headquarters offices and the questions on the ...

People and fleet equipment are the largest investments that construction companies make. When injuries and accidents happen to either, you lose productivity time, administration costs, and can gain a ...

Contractors fill one of every five jobs in the United States and are expected to make up nearly half our workforce within the next decade. They bring with them varying degrees of occupational health ...

Breakdowns in PSM often stem from treating safety programs as compliance exercises rather than operational systems, leading to gaps in procedures, training, and controls. Incident investigations that ...

The FAA will mandate systems-safety programs for manufacturers, heeding calls from lawmakers and an independent industry report that examined what went wrong during the 737 MAX’s development. Credit: ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. It's easy to fall into the trap of letting safety training ...

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Enterprise Assessments (EA) conducted an independent assessment of the effectiveness of safety management program development by Bechtel National, Inc. (BNI) at ...

A few years ago, the Wyoming T2/LTAP Center developed and implemented the Wyoming Rural Road Safety Program (WRRSP) to assist counties in creating strategies to improve safety on high-risk rural roads ...