Safety+Health

The National Fire Protection Agency’s standard for electrical workplace safety, NFPA 70E, is revised every three years. Safety+Health presents an overview of some key elements of the 2018 edition.

Spring is considered tornado season for much of the United States, but tornadoes can occur any time of the year. How can employers ensure their workers are prepared?

Retail workers experienced a combined injury and illness rate higher than the construction industry in 2016. Experts say top-down commitment is needed to prevent a work environment that values inventory over safety.

“Safety – and the issues surrounding it – is far different from when behavior-based safety first came onto the scene,” says Susan Murphy from DEKRA Insight, who presents five principles for creating a modern injury-reduction system.

Working with a spirit of service can have “a profound influence on your attitude and feelings,” says veteran safety pro turned professional speaker Richard Hawk, who encourages readers this month to “make a regular habit of asking employees how you can help them.”

Safety+Health presents the National Safety Council’s annual recognition of CEOs who demonstrate a personal commitment to worker safety and health.

The ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia upholds the lower permissible exposure limit in OSHA’s updated silica rule. Supporters of the rule call the court’s decision a “huge victory” for workers, while opponents say it disregards “legitimate concerns.”

The latest agenda, released in December, reflects the Trump administration’s push for deregulation, and details a plan for agencies to put forth “three deregulatory actions for every new regulatory action in 2018.”

Your expectations can shade all aspects of your life, says veteran safety pro turned professional speaker Richard Hawk, who explains why “unrealistic expectations aren’t what usually hold us back – it’s the belief we can’t fulfill a big dream.”

“Many organizations have not yet installed effective measures that actually get people thinking and executing correctly when it really counts,” says DEKRA Insight’s David Musgrave, who discusses new neuroscience-based ways to keep employees safe and unplanned events at bay.