Health
Covid-19: OSHA Urges Businesses to Prepare for Outbreak
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued guidance on preparing workplaces for a COVID-19 outbreak. The guide explains how C...
U.S. Faces Uphill Battle Against Plastic Waste
More than 2 years after China instituted its National Sword policy, which banned the import of most forms of plastic waste for recycling, the United S...
The 6 Axioms of Safety Management
For this article, the term “axioms” is intended to imply broad observations regarding safety management. These observations are primarily experien...
The Planet’s Largest Ecosystems Could Collapse Faster Than We Thought
If put under the kind of environmental stress increasingly seen on our planet, large ecosystems —such as the Amazon rainforest or the Caribbean cora...
Sif All-or-Nothing Thinking
Heinrich’s pyramid has been a model for safety thinking since 1931. It has two primary premises: the frequency of accidents is inversely proportiona...
Benefits of Scalable EHS Software That Aligns with Your Organizational Structure
At the rate that manufacturers are penetrating new global markets, or companies are undergoing mergers and acquisitions, it will slow your EHS program...
Task and Environment Affect Carbon Monoxide Exposure Among Wildland Firefighters
In the United States, the number of acres burned each year from wildland fires has grown, increasing work-related risks to wildland firefighters. One ...
Climate Change Boosted Australia Bushfire Risk By at Least 30%
Scientists have published the first assessment quantifying the role of climate change in the recent Australian bushfires. Global warming boosted the r...
Artificial Intelligence Crowdsourcing Competition for Injury Surveillance
In 2018, NIOSH, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), and OSHA contracted the National Academies of Science (NAS) to conduct a consensus study on...
10 Folks Who Have Influenced the Environmental Landscape-for Better or Worse
The environmental landscape contains a wealth of personalities: Hellraisers and treehuggers; deniers and political hacks; academics and scientists; ge...
That Robot Next to You is Helping Create a Safer Workplace
I fear that I have been asking the wrong question. In talking with companies who manufacture robots and those that use them, I keep asking if it’s s...
AIHA, Other Groups Partner for Indoor Air, Environmental Quality
The American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA®) and six other non-profit organizations, including the convening organization, Indoor Air Quality ...