Reality often does not match intent when it comes to performance appraisals.

Use of flame-resistant clothing (FRC) in industry has boomed in the past few years.

OSHA’s standard on ladder safety — 1926.1053 — was among the top 10 most-cited violations in fiscal year 2014, with 2,911 citations and 2,267 inspections within that timeframe in all industries.

During the late 1970s, Judy Komaki and her behavioral psychologist colleagues used their methodology in a food manufacturing facility to improve the safety performance by focusing on reinforcing safe behaviors (Komaki, Barwick, & Scott, 1978). This was the birth of behavior-based safety (BBS).

Labeling is quite popular in modern business.

We’re coming down the home stretch with OSHA Globally Harmonized System (GHS) for hazardous communication compliance.

You may have strong personal and professional convictions about an issue; however, you feel you have to act in another way — and that way doesn’t align with your beliefs or values.

The first word in the front page article in The Philadelphia Inquirer said it all: “Responding…”

Workers performing tasks while on scaffolding can be exposed to fall hazards involving considerable height, a factor which makes scaffolding-related violations especially serious.

Certainly over the past several decades, the plethora of “leadership” books has grown to the point that the topic could fill a metropolitan library.