S+H Staff

How should we prepare to conduct our own incident investigations?

Despite suggestions from some stakeholders that a rush of regulation has streamed out of Washington under the current administration, the National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health is pleading with OSHA to complete several rulemakings.

This GHS Instructors Manual provides a comprehensive understanding of the complete Globally Harmonized System for the Classification and Labeling of Chemicals. Written with the safety professional in mind, it is formatted into 10 different sections by dividers for quick reference.

The Gear Keeper RT3-5601 retractable tether is ideal for tools up to 2 pounds and is available in high-visibility orange.

Before I joined the National Safety Council, I believed that an office is a safe working environment, and that the only major health issue to contend with was making sure I didn’t catch a co-worker’s cold. Years – and multiple Safety+Health articles on the topic – later, I’ve become aware of the many ways an office worker can be hurt.

The FocalPoint family of graphic workstations for fire alarm system monitoring provides facility/security managers and first responders with real-time information and systems control virtually anywhere.

In previous columns we outlined a study of serious injury and fatality (SIF) events. Undertaken by several major organizations, the findings showed that high-severity outcomes tend to have different causes and correlates than other injury types.

NIOSH has long been considered the research arm to OSHA’s enforcement arm, but collaboration between the two agencies over the years has varied. Recently, the two have begun working together more closely – something the heads of both agencies say saves money and produces better efforts to keep workers safe.

San Francisco – Concussions and their severity may be minimized with a properly fitted football helmet combined with proper techniques, according to a study presented at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine’s Specialty Day in February.

Washington – The comment period for a rule aimed at addressing the risk of injuries from consumer table saws has been extended until March 16.