Safety+Health

A Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration rule requiring the use of electronic logging devices to track driver hours of service is in effect, but critics remain vocal.

World-class safety is about more than numbers, say DEKRA Insight’s Don Groover and Jim Spigener, who discuss four pillars that help shape “safety serious” organizations.

How well do you deal with the unexpected? Veteran safety pro turned professional speaker Richard Hawk shares how you can “pump up your flexibility muscle” to better handle life’s twists and turns.

As new technologies bring robots side by side with human workers, what are the implications for occupational safety?

The Hierarchy of Controls helps safety professionals identify and mitigate exposures to on-the-job hazards. “You can’t eliminate every hazard, but the closer you can get to the top, the closer you can reach that ideal and make people healthier and safer,” one expert says.

Safety+Health presents a look at safety in the construction industry.

OSHA needs to improve its “attitude and relationship” with stakeholders, an attorney representing the U.S. Chamber of Commerce told members of the House, while former agency administrator David Michaels said the assertion that OSHA doesn’t partner with industry is “really discrediting the agency and is not based in fact.”

Employers “can and will be at the forefront of implementing pivotal solutions to prevent and treat opioid addictions,” one researcher testified during a joint hearing convened by two House subcommittees.

Have you ever arrived at work and found yourself unable to recall the details of your drive? Larry R. Russell, principal consultant for the Brain-Centric Reliability System at DEKRA Organizational Safety & Reliability, discusses this and other “brain-centered hazards” that stand in the way of us being safer drivers.

At times, we let our senses lead us – “especially when they provide us with a reward for a harmful habit,” says veteran safety pro turned professional speaker Richard Hawk. Hawk offers tips for harnessing the senses to “inspire and help us perform better.”