 | | | Current Issue | | June 2013 | | Safety in the palm of your hand |
| | Smartphones, tablets and their applications are ubiquitous in today’s society. But for safety professionals, apps can help educate workers on safety, improve safety communication and, according to some experts, save lives. | | Read More |
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Safety on the line? June 2013 The U.S. Department of Agriculture is working on a rule that would allow poultry plants to increase line speeds. Advocates say the change would further endanger poultry workers, who already experience high rates of musculoskeletal injuries. | | Read More |
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Training not required? June 2013 Considering the skills necessary to handle a large truck – which is 20-30 times heavier than a passenger car – why are entry-level commercial truck drivers not required to go through formal training before being licensed? | | Read More |
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Educated and empowered June 2013 Foreign-born workers make up more than 15 percent of the U.S. workforce, but research suggests they lack safety training and knowledge of their workplace rights. What can employers do to encourage safe behavior among immigrant workers? | | Read More |
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Industry Spotlight: Wholesale trade – non-durable goods June 2013 More than 1.9 million people worked in the wholesale trade – non-durable goods industry in 2011, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That year, recordable injuries exceeded 81,000, and occurred at a rate of 4.4 per 100 full-time workers. | | Read More |
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Safety Leadership: What process safety needs from a leader June 2013 The connection between leadership and process safety has not always been clear. Leaders often struggle to identify how or whether they affect process safety outcomes. | | Read More |
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Washington Update: Let’s try this again June 2013 For a bill to become law, it must pass both houses of Congress and be signed by the president. However, if a bill is not passed within two years, or a single congressional session, the process must start all over again. | | Read More |
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| Safety Tips | | June 2013 | | According to NIOSH, workers can be exposed to lead through fumes (produced when metal is being heated or soldered) or dust (produced when metal is being cut or when lead paint is sanded or removed with a heat gun). | | Read More |
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| Workplace Solutions | | June 2013 | | What are cumulative trauma disorders, and what steps can be taken to help prevent employees working on computers from experiencing them? | | Read More |
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 | | | Editor's Note | | 01 June 2013 | | Time flies |
| | Melissa J. Ruminski | | I’ve used “past and future” as a theme for this column before. But looking at the coverage in this month’s issue of Safety+Health, I’m struck by how, once more, it applies. | | Read More |
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 | | | Washington Wire | | 24 May 2013 | | Regulatory agenda late again |
| | Kyle W. Morrison, Senior Associate Editor | | As spring gives way to summer, House Republicans are asking a question they have asked several times before: Where’s the regulatory agenda? | | Read More |
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| Regulatory agenda late again | | 24 May 2013 | | As spring gives way to summer, House Republicans are asking a question they have asked several times before: Where’s the regulatory agenda? |
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| OSHA Roundup for May 20, 2013 | | 20 May 2013 | | OSHA moves money around to fund enforcement and Thomas Perez is one step closer to becoming the newest secretary of labor. Read about these stories and more in this week’s OSHA Roundup. |
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| OSHA and the sequester | | 16 May 2013 | | It is now clear how the across-the-board budget cuts known as the sequester will impact OSHA. |
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| Perez’s thoughts on OSHA, regulations | | 14 May 2013 | | Republicans in the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee recently released a series of questions for labor secretary nominee Thomas Perez, as well as his responses. |
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| OSHA Roundup for May 13, 2013 | | 13 May 2013 | | Read thoughts on worker safety by Thomas Perez, the nominee to be the newest secretary of labor. Plus, the AFL-CIO releases its latest report examining workplace safety and OSHA, in this week’s OSHA Roundup. |
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