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Certain Technical Sessions taking place during Congress & Expo have been selected to help you on your Journey to Safety Excellence.

Atlanta – It’s vital to keep family in mind when creating a workplace safety culture. Former Navy Commander Mike Abrashoff shared this message during today’s Opening Session at the 2015 NSC Congress & Expo.

Atlanta – Video games and the idea of embracing failure are some of the innovations that can help lead to safer workplaces, speakers said today during the executive forum at the NSC Congress & Expo.

If you’re a Congress & Expo attendee pressed for time but still looking for quick educational sessions, check out the NSC Learning Lab (Booth 158).

After the conclusion of the Motivational Keynote presentation tomorrow (8 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.), speakers E. Scott Geller, senior partner of Safety Performance Solutions, and Charlie Morecraft, president and CEO of Phoenix Safety Management, will sign copies of their books outside of the Thomas Murphy Ballroom.

Three years ago, a court handed down a decision that restricted OSHA’s ability to cite employers for recordkeeping violations. Now the agency is hoping to work around that decision through a new proposed rule.

This month, Colin Duncan from DEKRA Insight, discusses how “personal wearable devices and mobile phones to equipment sensors and ‘smart’ machines – is rapidly changing the nature of our organizations and how we run them.”

This month, Robert Bulger, chief project officer and vice president – HSEQ for WHPacific, writes about taking “into an integrated operations role, ensuring requirements lead into design, which leads into operations, which successfully permeates the culture of the organization.”

Paid leave is getting more and more attention these days. But why should occupational safety and health professionals care about the issue?