Can an employee get injured by just sitting in a vehicle and driving?
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Tags: back pain, driving, truck drivers
Do any of your employees walk to work? The group, Transportation for America, has released its ranking of the most dangerous large metropolitan areas for pedestrians.
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Tags: cities for walking, most dangerous, Transportation for America
A year ago, the federal government announced new hours-of-service rules for commercial vehicle drivers. Now there’s word that they’re about to change again.
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Tags: commercial motor vehicle, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, hours of service
A restaurant faces a $50,604 fine in the death of a 17-year-old employee who was parking cars. But this fine wasn’t from OSHA.
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Tags: child labor, death of 17-year-old, FLSA, parking valet death
California requires people using a cell phone while driving to use a hands-free device. Now, the state’s governor has had to tell his wife that the law applies to her, too.
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Tags: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, hands-free device, Maria Shriver, using cell phone while driving
President Obama has signed an Executive Order banning 4.5 million employees from texting while driving.
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Tags: National Traffic Safety Administration, texting while driving, truckers
The American Society of Safety Engineers is calling on safety pros to support efforts to cut down on distracted driving since the leading cause of workplace fatalities is motor vehicle crashes.
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Tags: ASSE, cell phones and driving, distracted driving, driver education, motor vehicle crashes
Every safety manager has seen it: It-won’t-happen-to-me syndrome. What if you could show workers how likely they are to die from various causes? A new online calculator allows you to do just that.
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Workers’ comp boards and courts draw a fine line between what is and what isn’t a work-related injury that qualifies for benefits. See if you can guess how the court ruled in this case:
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Tags: climbing into truck, ruptured tendon, shipping yard, tractor trailer, Workers' comp
Recently, a federal agency started to gather information on why Wyoming has the highest workplace fatality rate in the nation.
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Tags: fatality rate, NIOSH, seat belts, Wyoming
More than four million people have now viewed a video on YouTube that shows the tragic consequences when texting-while-driving causes a crash. Despite that, some safety pros say the video ultimately won’t do much good.
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Tags: driving and texting video, gory videos, Gwent Wales police
A 30-minute video, made in a small town in Wales, was intended for local high school students to show them the dangers of texting and driving. But now, more than 1.5 million people have watched it on YouTube — and the general reaction by viewers is that they’ll never text and drive again.
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Tags: Gwent Wales police, texting and driving video, YouTube texting driving video
They say a picture’s worth a thousand words. Here’s photographic proof of why it’s not safe for employees to use their cell phones while driving.
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Tags: reckless driving, text and drive, tow truck into swimming pool
When it comes to the safety of employees who drive as part of their jobs, there’s been a recent focus on the hazards of driving while talking on a cell phone. But what about eating while driving?
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Tags: distracted driving, driving while on cell phone, eating while driving
The Transportation Department will require direct observation collections for all return-to-duty and follow-up drug tests for transportation workers in safety-sensitive jobs.
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Work-related vehicle fatalities aren’t always at high speeds and on the open road.
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Tags: OSHA investigating, run over by dump truck, vehicle fatalities
Just how distracting is it to send text messages while driving? Try your skills online.
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Tags: distracting, text messages while driving, texting while driving
The highways aren’t getting any safer for American workers. In fact, the tragic numbers are mind-numbingly consistent year in and year out.
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Tags: highway deaths, Safety training
A national safety organization that championed mandatory seat belt laws is now calling on governors and legislators in all 50 states to ban cell phone use while driving.
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Tags: cell phones, legislation, National Safety Council, states
While a judge on the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor disagreed with two fellow judges who ruled an employer could set safety standards higher than what the government required.
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Tags: EEOC v. J.B. Hunt, prescription medication and driving, Sonia Sotomayor
A Texas drilling company will pay $16 million to the family of a woman who was killed when equipment fell off its tractor trailer and onto the victim’s SUV.
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Tags: big settlement, fatal truck crash, Pioneer Drilling Co.
The National Safety Council is encouraging employers and states to ban cell phone use while driving.
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Tags: cell phone ban, Death By Cell Phone, National Safety Council
An investigation is underway to determine what caused a monorail at Walt Disney World in Florida to slam into another, killing one train’s driver.
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Tags: Disney World monorail crash, monorail death, monorail investigation
Are some states becoming refuges for registering out-of-service commercial vehicle carriers?
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Tags: FMCSA, out-of-service commercial vehicle carriers, unsafe commercial vehicle carriers
Here’s one way to draw attention to the dangers of texting while driving: In Missouri, a man was so busy using his cell phone while driving that he plowed into two stopped police cars.
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Imagine this: Two of your employees who work together both get little sleep before performing a safety-sensitive task. Then, the two are involved in an incident that kills 50 people.
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Tags: Continental Flight 3407, NTSB investigation, too tired to work safely
Should you add “recession stress” to the list of possible root causes for workplace injuries?
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A company had banned its employees from talking or texting on cell phones while working for safety reasons. Now it’s taking the cell phone ban one step further.
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Tags: cell phone policies, talking on cell phones while working, texting
Struck-by incidents are a significant cause of workplace injuries and deaths each year. But this has to be a first.
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Tags: blunt force trauma, killed by laptop computer, struck-by incidents
OSHA seems to be sending a message to employers via two recent whistleblower orders: When employees raise safety concerns, listen.
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Tags: employees raise safety concerns, Southern Air, UPS, whistleblower
Which types of on-the-job injuries cause employees to miss the most time from work?
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Tags: costly workplace injuries, disabling workplace injuries, top 10 injuries
Three employees suffered serious injuries in an explosion in Pasadena, CA, that ripped apart a delivery truck fueled by compressed natural gas.
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Tags: CAL-OSHA, compressed natural gas, explosion
Here we go again: Four groups have filed a lawsuit in federal court asking that hours-of-service rules for commercial motor vehicle drivers be thrown out.
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Tags: commercial motor vehicle drivers, FMCSA, hours of service
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