Realistically, what employee is going to risk his or her livelihood filing a safety or health whistleblower complaint with OSHA; even with all the so-called protections afforded in Section 11(c) of the 1970 OSH Act or the additional protections of the proposed Protecting America’s Workers Act (HR 2067) to amend the OSH Act?

I think, for the most part, that the priorities for OSHA were about where we all feel they should be. I am pleasantly surprised to see that a General Industry Combustible Dust Standard made the top five.

No exec will ever admit to underfunding his safety operation. His lawyers would have panic attacks.

There is a considerable amount of productive friction - just enough disagreement that we get into it, but not so much that we lose focus on what matters - generating good insights that we can apply on the shop floor.

Evidence is mounting that children born in the U.S. today may be the first generation of children to be less healthy than their parents.

A serious disconnect existed between the kind of “power” managers thought they were giving and what employees believed they were receiving.

Safety and health management systems remain entirely too rigid and compliance-focused to effectively react to the pace of business.

Safety and health proves have the caring; do they possess the guts?

By Dave Johnson, ISHN Editor

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By Dave Johnson, ISHN Editor

How does your organization make sense of safety?

By Dave Johnson, ISHN Editor