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Safety colors: A quiz

The American National Standards Institute has requirements indicating what specific colors should be used to communicate hazards to workers. Take this quiz to find out if you know what these colors mean.

FACE Report: Forklift operator crushed by loaded pallet

On Feb. 28, 2020, a forklift operator died after being crushed by a loaded pallet of soft drink cans.

All about electrical risk assessments

What is the difference between an electrical risk assessment, a shock assessment and an arc flash assessment?

Corporate Profile: Advance Lifts

Advance Lifts was founded in 1974 and quickly became the leading dock lift manufacturer in the country. Over the years, our product lines expanded to include production scissors lift tables, tilters, turntables, dumpers, work access lifts and mezzanine access lifts.
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How to get more from your ergonomics program

We have completed ergonomic risk assessments for most of our jobs. How do we get more improvements implemented?

PPE and supply chain disruptions

What have supply chain disruptions meant for employers who need personal protective equipment for their workers?

On Research: Making safety training ‘stickier’

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.”

EPA reverses finding in revised draft risk evaluation for TSCA chemical, seeks comment

Washington — The Environmental Protection Agency is seeking public comment on a revised draft risk evaluation that states Cyclic Aliphatic Bromide Cluster poses unreasonable risk under certain conditions – a reversal of previous findings that the chemical substance presents no unreasonable risk of injury to humans or the environment, according to a notice published in the Dec. 29 Federal Register.
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Study questions whether FMCSA’s ELD mandate for truckers ‘has improved safety’

East Lansing, MI — The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s mandate on the use of electronic logging devices to record commercial motor vehicle driver hours of service “did not immediately achieve its goal of reducing accidents,” and may be linked to increases in unsafe driving behaviors and crashes, results of a recent study suggest.

Robin Hutcheson is new acting administrator of FMCSA

Washington — Robin Hutcheson has been appointed deputy administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, the Department of Transportation announced Jan. 19.

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