What letters do you want following your name?

Do you notice that nearly all consultants or EHS professionals writing for ISHN have letters (acronyms for titles) after their name? If you want to advance in the EHS field, you’ll need letters after your name, too.

ISHN offers the exclusive results from our 22nd annual White Paper Survey.

Follow researchers to align your long-term agenda

Have you developed plans to address safety and health opportunities that may occur over the next decade? After all, best practices for managing workplace safety and health require you to develop both short- and long-term plans.

Type A personalities can’t find the brake

Slow down and live in the moment. This is a worthwhile resolution for the New Year, similar to one I proposed in January 2003 — “Yield the right-of-way.”

Then tailor concepts to fit your safety efforts

To start the year off I want to study current managerial thinking, based on three best-selling books, and apply some of their concepts to workplace safety.

How blips on a screen can shape careers

If there’s a language more dense and indecipherable than consultantese, it might come from the think tanks that populate Washington, D.C. and many a comfortable campus.

Three days after Christmas in 1972, Eastern Airlines flight 401 nose-dived into the Florida everglades, killing 99 passengers and crewmembers.

It’s January 1, 2010. President Mark Warner (the former Democratic governor of Virginia) is set to sign “The Workplace Full Disclosure for Safety’s Sake Act.”

It seems fitting to end the year with some reflections on this past hurricane season.

Everything you do to reduce human error — and thus losses — depends on perceptions of your organization’s culture. It’s that simple.