National Safety Council

Itasca, IL — Motor vehicle-related crashes are the leading cause of preventable death for teens. Parents and caregivers: Be part of the solution. Join the National Safety Council at 11 a.m. Central on June 22 to learn about DriveitHOME, an NSC initiative intended to help keep new drivers safe.

Itasca, IL — The National Safety Council, together with sponsor VelocityEHS, is encouraging employers to dedicate the month of June to improving their safety culture in recognition of National Safety Month. This year is the 25th anniversary of NSM, an annual observance created to inspire people to keep each other safe.

Itasca, IL — The National Safety Council and the McElhattan Foundation recently announced that they will continue to work together to eliminate workplace fatalities by 2050 through the NSC Work to Zero initiative.

The National Safety Council and Shatterproof are working together to end addiction stigma in the workplace.

Itasca, IL — The National Safety Council is urging everyone to practice defensive driving during the upcoming Memorial Day weekend, estimating that 415 people may die on the roads.

The NSC-led initiative wants to help employers ‘understand the spectrum of what they can do’ to safely return employees to the workplace.

Increased workloads, long hours, layoffs, work-life balance – these are just some of the reasons why you might be feeling stressed at work. And you’re not alone: Results of a survey conducted by the American Psychological Association in January show that 84% of U.S. adults were experiencing at least one emotion associated with prolonged stress, including anxiousness, sadness and anger.

June is National Safety Month. On this, the 25th anniversary of the observance, the COVID-19 pandemic remains front and center of the discussion about how to keep workers safe.

As with all workplace safety and health efforts, staying safe in the future world of work will be the combined effort of employers taking the right steps to reduce risk and employees doing their part to look out for themselves and each other.

The “blue line” is defined as the path workers take to get their work done. The National Safety Council adds: “Blue line reviews are field observations of work by leaders with the goal of better understanding how work is actually performed.”