Although injury and illness rates in the meat and poultry processing industries have declined in recent years – similar to rates in all U.S. manufacturing – the rates continue to be higher than rates for manufacturing overall, according to the report “Workplace Safety and Health: Additional Data Needed to Address Continued Hazards in the Meat …
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AFL-CIO report: 150 U.S. workers die every day
A new AFL-CIO report dug through worker fatality data and found some trends in U.S. workplace safety. The organization estimates that 150 workers die every day from hazardous working conditions. For the 25th year, AFL-CIO released its report, “Death on the Job: The Toll of Neglect.” The comprehensive report has some interesting numbers regarding workplace …
SLC 2015: Goodbye LOTO- Bringing Productivity Back to Safety
“Safety doesn’t have to come at the expense of productivity.” If one were to boil down the Safety Technology track at EHS Today’s Safety Leadership Conference into one sentence, that would be it. It was a sentiment that was, of course, welcomed rather warmly by the crowds of EHS professionals in attendance, all of whom …