Safety+Health

How do safety pros feel about the current job market? Has the COVID-19 pandemic raised the profile of the profession? Safety+Health presents the results of its annual Job Outlook survey.

The COVID-19 pandemic has created new hurdles for workers in recovery or seeking help for opioid misuse.

"There's confusion out there on exactly what the term 'competent' means and who qualifies as a competent person," one expert says.

When a worker dies on their watch, safety professionals must contend with grief while looking at safety processes "to make sure that it doesn't happen again."

“We’re challenging the paradigm that treats every incident as though it’s unique,” say Don Groover and Mike Snyder of DEKRA.

Motivational speaker Richard Hawk believes you have “something unique to offer that makes a positive difference in the safety and health field.”

Topping the list for the 10th successive year is Fall Protection – General Requirements. Also: The Top 10 “willful” and “serious” violations, a list of the year’s highest penalties, and a Q&A with OSHA’s Patrick Kapust.

The COVID-19 pandemic has shown C-suite leaders the value of safety professionals.

Pandemic-prompted shutdowns have forced a pivot in the way construction safety training is delivered