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Safety Leadership: Making better decisions for serious injury prevention

Safety leaders routinely make decisions about exposures. Worker exposures to serious injury and fatality events present a particular problem.

Three of the most prominent human-caused disasters

Humanity is capable of doing many great things. Unfortunately, we also are capable of causing many horrifying things.

The picture of health

It’s one of occupational safety’s greatest ironies – the professionals who care for the ill and injured are themselves among the most likely to become sick or hurt on the job.

State of the Union sidesteps safety

In his State of the Union address on Jan. 28, President Barack Obama touched on how the growing oil and gas industry might help improve the economy and reduce pollution, and all but neglected the occupational safety side of things.
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OSHA Roundup for Jan. 27, 2014

OSHA's and other safety agencies’ budgets are set for fiscal year 2014. Learn what the funding levels are, and more, in this week’s OSHA Roundup.

Editor’s Note: Feeling social?

Staying connected through social media is the theme of this month's Editor's Note.

Washington Update: Reviewing VPP

OSHA’s Voluntary Protection Programs is meant to be made up of worksites that are the best of the best in terms of workplace safety. But is it?

State Spotlight: OSHA Region 1

Safety+Health takes a region-by-region look at injury statistics, beginning this month with OSHA Region 1. Read a listing of the region's emphasis programs and fatality and injury counts by state.

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What’s Your Opinion: Are you in favor of OSHA’s proposal to make workplace-specific injury and illness data available to the public?

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Notable/Quotable

Occasionally, someone says something about safety I find noteworthy. In today’s post, a West Virginia native sounds off about industrial safety in light of a devastating chemical release near Charleston, his city of birth.

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