Fear appeals can be powerful vehicles for conveying a safety or health message, but we need to understand what makes these messages effective.

Can we scare people into working safe?

If injury and illness rates rise in your company, could you be held back from a promotion, raise or merit increase — or suspended or fired?

Do you try to influence self-efficacy, response-efficacy, and outcome-expectancy to improve safety in your workplace?

Have you noticed senior managers are getting more active in assuring that their organization’s culture includes environmental health and safety as a core value?

Environmental mapping on the Internet is evolving rapidly as a way for realtors, home buyers and home sellers to find pollution hotspots.

Short of workplace violence, “crying wolf” to the government that a company is seriously breaching its environmental health and safety responsibilities is usually the strongest way a disgruntled current or former employer can vent or retaliate against their present or past employer.

We continue to practice the more inconvenient but safe way of doing something either because someone is holding us accountable (behavior is still other-directed), or because we are holding ourselves accountable (the behavior has transitioned to self-directed).

Let’s examine this remarkable connection between a momentous political event and industrial safety.

How to assess unregulated chemicals.