The first article I wrote for ISHN, back in 1991, was about biomonitoring — detecting chemicals within the body. It was predicted that a tipping point would someday occur when biomonitoring became more important than traditional sampling for chemicals in environmental media such as air, water or soil.
Forecasting the 2007 EHS climate - Favorable winds for stable careers Here’s the forecast for the environmental health and safety field
heading into 2007: Professionals will find mostly favorable winds at
their back for career security and stability, according to the 23rd
annual White Paper survey conducted by Industrial Safety & Hygiene
News.
This month, in the first of a
series of columns on people-based leadership for safety excellence, I
want to “LEAP” in — the acronym Steve Farber used to
discuss leadership in his address at the 2006 Professional Development
Conference for the American Society for Safety Engineers (ASSE) last
June.
We all face career choices.
Perhaps you’re a young EHS pro entering the field, or a
mid-career pro downsized out of a job. As always, there are options.
Put aside starting your own EHS business or joining a consulting firm.
If you want to stay in private industry, your career can take four
paths.
In part one of my “short
course” in managing stress (October 2006) I mentioned individuals
can have very different thresholds for experiencing distress. Even the
hardiest among us have our limits. So what do we do when we’re
nearing those limits?
It’s not of a concern now,
but OSHA’s standard on access to employee exposure and medical
records (29 CFR 1910.1020) might pose the greatest challenge to
employers in the coming years. Why?
This past September I enjoyed my fourth business trip to Australia, appreciating another opportunity to teach Aussies the principles and procedures of People-Based Safety (PBS).
Action plans, response plans, contingency plans — all of these plans do the same thing: spell out how a business will provide an uninterrupted flow of products or services during an emergency.
America runs on Dunkin’,†goes the slogan for Dunkin’ Donuts. And much of business runs on too little sleep. The same could be said of many safety and health managers