Lindsay Kastanis shares how she got into the EHS field.

Charlie Taylor shares how he got into the EHS field.

Cold weather raises the risk of some not-so-obvious hazards. Here are a few to keep in mind.

“It’s a skill set that the safety professional needs to master,” one expert says.

Sacramento, CA — California’s Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board has unanimously approved to make permanent an emergency temporary standard aimed at safeguarding workers who handle engineered stone from silica hazards.

Between 2012 and 2022, 310 work-related deaths linked to refuse trucks were recorded, according to NIOSH.

A welder with more than 40 years of experience was constructing the leading edge of an aboveground storage tank roof with sheets of metal sheathing.

What’s a near miss? OSHA defines it as a “potential hazard or incident in which no property was damaged and no personal injury was sustained, but where, given a slight shift in time or position, damage or injury easily could have occurred.”

Washington — A total of 5,283 workers died from on-the-job injuries in 2023 – a 3.7% decrease from 2022, Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries data released Dec. 19 by the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows.

Washington — Updates to an Environmental Protection Agency tool that can be used to analyze chemicals and predict whether they have carcinogenic effects are geared toward “expanding the tool’s usability.”