Editor’s Note: Share your success stories

As we begin a new year, Associate Editor Alan Ferguson has given us another installment of OSHA’s “most interesting cases.” His first article on the subject was published in 2022, after he’d attended a Technical Session at the NSC Safety Congress & Expo. The value of those sessions – and Alan’s coverage – is in the lessons learned and what can be done to prevent similar incidents.

It’s the same reason the Safety Tips section of Safety+Health includes summaries of reports from NIOSH’s Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program. Each full report details a terrible way one or more workers died on the job. Those, too, offer advice for preventing similar incidents.

Thinking about it made me look at what S+H does to not only highlight lessons learned, but also share safety successes.

Every year we publish NSC’s CEOs Who “Get It,” selected for the actions they’ve taken to help keep workers safe. We also feature NSC’s Rising Stars of Safety, and provide a quick quote describing something each “star” has accomplished.

But we’d like to do more to spotlight the everyday successes and wins of safety pros. So, with your help, we’ll try. Here’s how:

The back page of S+H features a rotation of several columns. It’s the perfect place for you to tell others about your good work and great ideas – and perhaps inspire people.

It doesn’t need to be a big initiative: We’d love to hear about the small steps you’ve taken and little wins you’ve helped make happen.

Interested? Email us at [email protected] with the subject line “Safety Success” and tell us, in 500 words or less (shorter is fine), about it. If we get enough responses, we’ll start sharing them. We hope to hear from you!

The opinions expressed in “Editor’s Note” do not necessarily reflect those of the National Safety Council or affiliated local Chapters.