Your employees bring a lifetime of experiences to every training session. Sometimes they’ll know more than you do about specific hazards and safety conditions in their current jobs. When you design ...

NFPA 70E says, “The electrical safety program shall identify the principles upon which it is based” [110.5(E)]. Someone could read this and then make a list of unhelpful verbiage to satisfy the ...

An occupational safety and health coalition is calling for companies to adopt risk-based safety and health strategies. The group, The Intersociety Forum (ISF), comprises two dozen organizations ...

How do you achieve breakthrough results in safety? Even after you’ve tried everything? Well, “everything” might imply “a double dose of more of the same” or even “variations on a basic theme.” Many ...

Customer Choice – Food is personal and what might be desirable food to some may not be to others. Tolerance and the freedom ...

With COVID-19 deaths dramatically down from earlier peaks, US health care providers still confront a different nationwide emergency: hospital errors that kill an estimated 150,000 patients annually.

"Safety isn't sustained by systems alone — it is shaped daily by values, decisions, and behaviors at every level," said Dr. Hassan Shahidi, president and CEO of Flight Safety Foundation. "These seven ...

Of all the ACLU’s advocacy efforts, few have as ironic a sounding mission as our fight to keep students safe from certain school safety measures. While the document sets forth some valuable standards, ...

In its simplest (and perhaps least effective) form, lockout/tagout (LOTO) consists of three steps: Identify the breaker (or fuse) that supplies power to your equipment. Open the breaker. Hang your ...

As machines grow more complex and interconnected, functional safety standards and intuitive human-machine interfaces become ...