On Research

“Knowing when risk is more likely would allow you to change work schedules to minimize the risk, which, in turn, would potentially put less strain on our bodies,” says doctoral student Matthew Laske.

If a safety culture is to be effective and thrive, three key efforts are necessary: avoidance of assigning blame to workers, proactive response to...

Journal of Safety Research contributors talk about their work. This month: Researcher Cassandra Madigan talks about how safety professionals influence managers in their organizations.

Journal of Safety Research contributors talk about their work. This month: Researcher Nick Turner discusses why “the way you manage people is important and, in this case, it has effects for safety.”

Journal of Safety Research contributors talk about their work. Kicking things off is researcher Tristan Casey, who answers questions about his study on “making safety training stickier.”

Maps tell stories. They define our space. They illustrate our surroundings. They inspire our daydreams. A pair of researchers, Sara E. Heins and Cassandra K. Crifasi, of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, wanted to know what a map might tell us about distinctive injury deaths in each state.

Popcorn lung-related chemicals have resurfaced in a completely different product – electronic cigarettes.

Let’s say you are a safety professional at a construction company. And let’s say that your workers have all types of heads – oval, circular, long, square, you name it. Why would you ask all of them to wear identically shaped hard hats for protection?

When University of Michigan professor Richard Neitzel proposed the idea of a job noise exposure matrix to NIOSH several years ago, he hoped to gather half a million samples of data. He now has about 1 million, and he’s not done yet.

A four-year study funded by a $1.4 million grant from NIOSH will examine the connection between heavy physical activities and retinal detachment, which occurs when the retina pulls away from its nourishing layer of blood vessels, resulting in potential vision loss.