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Rethinking Traditional Safety, Part 7

The neuroscience behind error reduction techniques

June 7, 2020

I think that it’s interesting how the neuroscience and the critical error reduction techniques are aligned or how the neuroscience supports or validates the critical error reduction techniques.

FR Protection

Assessing arc flash risk

Dave Johnson

June 5, 2020

ISHN spoke to Colin Duncan, CEO of the SEAM Group, and Jay Smith, SEAM Group director safety services, about arc flash hazard analyses (AFHA).

Closing Time

5 business lessons learned amid COVID-19

Mission critical elements of operational agility in the post-pandemic era

Hari Abburi

June 5, 2020

If there’s one thing the global business community has learned from the COVID-19 pandemic that continues to ebb, flow and unfold on the daily, wreaking having on bottom lines in every corner of the world in its wake, it’s the outright imperative for companies to be agile “from top to bottom.”

Elon Musk's SpaceX is hiring EHS professionals

The position entails creating and managing “site specific safety policies and programs”

Benita Mehta

May 28, 2020

SpaceX has several openings for environmental health and safety engineers, including in Brownsville, Texas, Cape Canaveral, Fla., Vandenberg, Calif., Hawthorne, Calif., and Redmond, Wash.

Digital Exclusive

Understanding and reducing effects of stress on your health

Kent Bradley, M.D., MPH, MBA

May 14, 2020

Did you know that our body does not discriminate between sources of stress? It simply responds to the stress. So, whether the stress is coming from an actual event, or simply a thought, the body may react in a similar way. Now, in these times when there is so much uncertainty, stress can have a huge impact on our bodies.

Digital Exclusive

Mental Health Focus: 5 Effective Steps to take in the workplace

Katrina McKinnon

May 13, 2020

Managers say their employees’ personal lives shouldn’t be their concern. However, this isn’t the best approach because workplace mental health is an important matter. It’s a common mistake to forget the human nature of employees. As an employer, it’s important to be compassionate with those who work for you.

Closing Time

Stop safety dissidents: Authority figures often ignore workforce issues

Allan J. Moore

May 13, 2020

Since health and safety initiatives and overall health and safety commentary seem to be focused towards frontline workers, Positional Leaders appear to be getting a free pass on the safety train that already left the station a long, long time ago.

Safety Tech

EHS software about more than compliance

Embrace new processes

May 13, 2020

Pamala Bobbitt, Vice President of Product Marketing at Cority, says, “One of my passions is helping people understand how technology can support, not re-create, their programs.” ISHN asked Bobbitt some questions on how companies are adapting to EHS technology.

Best Practices

Post-pandemic: What’s the new normal?

Dan Markiewicz MS, CIH, CSP, RMP

May 13, 2020

The history of the COVID-19 pandemic is still being written. When this pandemic ends – and it will end – a new normal may last for months, years, or forever. Planning for the after-effects of a pandemic is necessary.

Rethinking Traditional Safety, Part 6

Risk pattern and the concept of self-triggering

Larry Wilson

May 5, 2020

This article is really about putting all of the concepts in the previous articles together to come up with what will hopefully be the most significant change in thinking so far.