03/23/2020
On January 21,2020 an 80 year old Hong Kong man came aboard the Diamond Princess, a cruise ship, and he disembarked on January 26th. On February 1, 2020 he tested positive for COVID-19. On February 3rd the Diamond Princess docked in Japan’s Yokohama port and the...
03/08/2020
Happy International Women’s Day!
And what better way to celebrate than to share some information about one of America’s first Industrial Hygienists: Alice Hamilton!
Alice was born in 1869 in New York but lived most of her life in Illinois. During her life she was...
03/01/2020
Business owners or managers, when you advertise your business, do you showcase how many days since you last failed? You don't. Yet every day most employees pass a sign that boldly reports the number of days since hazards in your workplace hurt a fellow employee.
When...
02/23/2020
The source of infectious disease is people. Only a business with no employees can afford to fail to plan for the effect of illnesses on meeting production deadlines and quality products. (For more information on viral respiratory infections click on this
11/03/2019
In Part I we learned from an article by Lee Shelby called
10/23/2019
Recently, I was at a safety conference where the keynote speaker was Eric Giguere, who, even though he had never been trained in it before, volunteered to work with a crew installing sewer pipe. He recounted how his...
09/08/2019
Indications of effective Safety and Health Management:
08/13/2019
OSHA’s Safe and Sound Week!
Every year, the second week of August, OSHA encourages employers to recognize the success of workplace safety and health programs by participating in their Safe and Sound...
08/01/2019
The following tips are from 16 years in OSHA standard enforcement/consultation:
06/27/2019
There are many articles and blogs about employee engagement and getting through to the C-Suite (CEO, etc.) but this blog is about how to create a firmly engaged middle management. An effective Safety culture requires Supervisor engagement opportunities in all aspects of Safety in order to...
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