I have just been reading an article by Kevin Jones of a “new model” of safety that the consulting firm Ernst & Young are about to launch onto the safety world. The value of this new approach, which they have termed “Plus One”, is that it apparently takes the next step after Zero Harm. So …
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Over 10,000 Severe Worker Injuries Reported First Year OSHA Requirement
Since Jan. 1, 2015, employers have been required to report any severe work-related injury – defined as a hospitalization, amputation or loss of an eye – within 24 hours. The requirement that an employer report a workplace fatality within eight hours remains in force. In the first year of the new requirement, employers notified OSHA …
A Roadmap to Safety Excellence
With this downloadable PDF of 14 columns from author and speaker Terry L. Mathis, EHSToday.com launches its first collection of columns. In February 2012, Terry L. Mathis began contributing to EHS Today’s Managing Safety column. Readers demanded more columns from Terry, and he began contributing monthly. Soon, the safety management column belonged to Terry and …
Safety – Just a Few Bad Apples
I hear stories everyday about presenters and trainers in the risk and safety space peddling simplistic snake oil as the pathway to success. Often the idea being presented is based on a kernel of something good but then extended out to be something quite dangerous. Unfortunately the safety industry is susceptible to a host of …
What GHS Hazard Communication Labels Mean to Workers
The United Nations’ Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS hazard communication) is due to be fully implemented in the United States within the year. According to OSHA, “The new standard covers over 43 million workers who produce or handle hazardous chemicals in more than five million workplaces across the country. The …
A Guide to Workplace Hazards in Manufacturing
The manufacturing industry is a large but diverse part of the employment sector. While the industry is responsible for creating parts, products, and tools that we need to live, there can be many workplace hazards in manufacturing businesses. Employees are required to work production lines and often operate heavy machinery. Some of the most common …
Safer workplaces start with failure
Safer workplaces always get there by failing first. When we compare workplaces to determine which one is safer, we often think the employer has got everything all ‘honkey dory’. However, we couldn’t be further from the truth. “Success comes through rapidly fixing our mistakes rather than getting things right first time.” -Tim Harford As I …
Is Treating All Hazards the Same Endangering Lives?
This blog started as an exercise in intellectual pursuit. A purely academic pursuit. You see I discovered that (as I’m sure that most of you have) that there are different categories of hazards and these different categories of hazards represented a distance from an injury. I’m not talking about probability or even severity, more like …
OSHA cites auto parts manufacturer for willfully exposing workers to amputations
Jan. 28, 2016 OSHA cites auto parts manufacturer for willfully exposing workers to amputations, other hazards at Alabama facility Employer supplies parts to Kia and HyundaiEmployer: Daeil USA Corp. Inspection site: 1135 Towel Ave., Valley, Alabama 36854 Citations issued: The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued citations to the employer on …