Items Tagged with 'National Safety Council'

Washington — The National Safety Council is the first organization to become an ambassador of OSHA’s Alliance Program.

“When a CAVE person becomes unruly, it’s simply a tactic to throw you off your game,” says J. Kevin Cobb, senior consultant with SafeStart, who offers tools you can use when “citizens against virtually everything” disrupt your meetings and training sessions.

Elk Grove Village, IL — The American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine is calling on Congress to make workplace safety “a primary consideration” when considering federal legislation that would legalize marijuana use.

“Taking safety and health to the next level can’t be done with intellectual intelligence alone,” says Eldeen Pozniak, director of Pozniak Safety Associates, who discusses why “the more we understand other people and their definitions of the world and safety, the stronger our empathy, self-regulation, motivation and social skills will be.”

Itasca, IL — The National Safety Council is calling on employers to restrict cannabis use among workers in safety-sensitive positions – regardless of whether cannabis consumption is allowed by their state, in a new policy position released Oct. 21.

NSC Emergency Preparedness training is now available in an online format. Employees can access the program from any internet-connected device.

Scott Margolin, vice president of technical at Tyndale, wants you to overcome “the (very human) tendency to learn about something and presume that information or world view remains valid years later.”

Did you have your photo taken at the Safety+Health booth at the National Safety Council 2019 Congress & Expo this week? Pick up the finished cover photo here.

San Diego — Catch up on all of the news that was featured in the National Safety Council 2019 Congress & Expo Show Daily on Monday and Tuesday, as well as video highlights from the show.

San Diego — Increases of various workplace hazards have spurred OSHA to update several National Emphasis Programs in recent years, the latest being its trenching and excavation program in October 2018.