Safety+Health

Safety+Health presents OSHA's most frequently cited violations for fiscal year 2016. Also: the annual "penalty box" detailing the year's largest fines, and an exclusive interview with Patrick Kapust, deputy director of OSHA's Directorate of Enforcement Programs.

OSHA has updated the agency’s Safety and Health Program Management Guidelines for the first in nearly 30 years, a move OSHA administrator David Michaels calls “a great step forward.”

From workers at microwave popcorn plants to coffee roasters, people who work with the flavoring chemicals diacetyl and 2,3-pentanedione may be at risk for bronchiolitis obliterans, an irreversible disease also known as “popcorn lung.”

Safety+Health provides a recap of the biggest news out of the 2016 NSC Congress & Expo, which took place Oct. 15-21 in Anaheim, CA.

Steven Luttrull from DEKRA Insight discusses why leaders “cannot afford to be on autopilot or get caught up in a routine that is known, comfortable or easy to check off the list.”

Veteran safety pro turned professional speaker Richard Hawk offers two strategies for staying upbeat – “even during trying times.”

Richard Cerenzio from ISN shares his story of how a purple octopus helped reduce hand-related injuries at one company.

The results of Safety+Health’s 2016 Salary Survey are in, featuring data broken out by job title, experience, region and more. How does your salary stack up?

Worker advocates say misclassifying employees as independent contractors allows employers to shirk responsibilities for providing government-mandated worker protections – including a safe and healthy workplace.

Federal officials say requiring commercial motor vehicle drivers to use electronic logging devices to record their hours of service – a mandate set to begin in December 2017 – will reduce fatigue-related crashes.