Barry Bottino

Worker advocates are encouraging employers to create a supportive environment for employees in recovery from a substance use disorder.

Denver — The impact of artificial intelligence on workplace safety and health is no longer a discussion rooted in the future.

Denver — A phone call. A gift card. A letter. A box of crayons. What do these things have in common?

Denver — As her eyes welled up with tears, four-time Olympian Chaunté Lowe explained just how big of an impact speaking to thousands of safety and health professionals was having on her personally.

Lots of people experience impostor syndrome. For safety professionals, it can be “terrifying,” one consultant says.

Social media can make hobbies look so simple that it’s easy to feel inspired. But are you thinking about safety, too?

Washington — Efforts to expand OSHA’s compliance assistance programs clashed with the Trump administration’s push to cut federal safety agency staffing, budgets and regulations during a July 16 House Workforce Protections Subcommittee hearing.

“The more fatigued you are, the more it contributes to a bad safety climate, and the more those combined factors contribute to a negative safety outcome.”

Cristina Campbell Harris, industrial hygiene supervisor in the Department of Labor and Industry at Maryland Occupational Safety and Health, joins us to discuss worker protections against heat illness. We also review content from the June issue of Safety+Health and talk about the arrival of National Safety Month.

Frontline workers make organizations go. And safety and health professionals make sure those people stay safe on the job – but safety pros can’t have eyes everywhere. That’s where “selling” safety to the front line comes in.