DuPont was awarded Monday morning at the 2013 NSC Congress and Expo opening session for integrating environmental, health and safety management with business operations as a cornerstone of corporate financial prosperity.

The Millennial generation has been pouring into the workforce since the late 1990s and increasingly they're being promoted to supervisory and management positions.

A few weeks ago I was in a meeting with a handful of Safety Marketing Group (SMG) distributors and I asked the question: what is your company “Value Proposition”?

I define “The Four Pillars of Safety” as engagement, recognition, communications and measurement.

Many areas within the environmental health and safety (EHS) industry rely on extensive training and competency of the workforce to avoid any critical safety incidents.

Empowering front-line workers — those who stand to benefit the most from an effective safety process — is a concept that has been talked about much over the last decade

To stay relevant, silence distracters and continue to help organizations eliminate death on the job, behavior-based safety (BBS) processes need to experience a “step-change.”

If safety is more important than production, why does safety report up through legal, human resources or production rather than production reporting up through the company’s number one priority?

We all know that high-performing cultures for safety rely heavily on engagement, collaboration, and cooperation.

Consider your safety process. Certainly your safety management systems such as your procedures, rules, reporting systems, inspections, hazard identification, safety training and the like act as a sort of foundation and structure that we hope will reduce hazards and associated risk