A new report details how businesses can use robotics to enhance worker safety by assessing its risks, identifying solutions and readying the workplace for use of the new technology. The National Safety Council’s (NSC) Work to Zero initiative’s Improving Workplace Safety with Robotics report analyzed academic journals, vendor interviews and company case studies to evaluate […]
Do you know if the N95 filtering facepiece respirators your workers use are actually approved by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)? If you don’t, this video could help. NIOSH released a video in March 2023 explaining how to determine if an N95 has been approved by the organization through its “strict […]
Workplace fatality rates increased in 2021 and the National Safety Council (NSC) has released a new report that is meant to help employers reverse that trend through advances in technology. More than 5,000 workers died on the job in 2021, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, and NSC wants employers to […]
A $2 million crane’s topple from a construction barge into the waters of Virginia’s Willoughby Bay was due to the lack of a spotter to help the operator navigate, according to a federal investigation. Because there was no spotter present, the operator drove too far aft and the cable system securing the crane to the […]
Why should you improve your safety program in 2023? There are multiple reasons, including enhanced injury prevention and compliance with an increasingly aggressive federal OSHA. Let’s start with compliance and how OSHA came out swinging at the beginning of the year. 1. OSHA compliance At the end of January 2023, OSHA made a formal announcement […]
An investigation into the 2018 fire that injured 23 workers at the Kuraray America chemical plant in Texas was caused by 17 safety issues, including multiple process safety failures, according to the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB). The CSB report offers a dozen recommendations on how the company can prevent a similar […]
The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) released a safety video Dec. 7 on the events leading to the April 2017 fatal explosion at the Loy-Lange Box Company in St. Louis, Missouri. The video includes an animation of the sequence of events leading to the incident and interviews with CSB Interim Executive Steve […]
Safety software and mobile apps can help in preventing serious injuries and fatalities on the job, according to a new report from the National Safety Council (NSC) Work to Zero initiative. The report, “Managing Risks with EHS Software and Mobile Applications,” builds on Work to Zero’s initial 2020 research and outlines how employers can use […]
There’s a new edition of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards (NPG) coming in 2023 in celebration of the guide’s 45th anniversary. The first edition of the NPG was published in 1978 and four decades later it’s still one of the most popular NIOSH resources with more […]
