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Confined Spaces: Airborne dust & particulates accumulate quickly

These hazardous materials require close exposure monitoring

July 1, 2019

Broadly speaking, a confined space is an area that is large enough for a worker to enter and do work, but that is difficult to get in and out of easily, and not designed or intended for regular occupancy.

Ensuring fleet safety – when the fleet is automated

ASSP has guidance for safe use of new tech

July 1, 2019

With auto manufacturers producing more vehicles with automated driving components, the American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP) has developed a technical report to help companies safely manage their high-tech fleets. The report identifies key factors that fleet managers should consider when selecting automated vehicles and outlines a plan to assist with their safe operation.

Top products of the week

June 30, 2019

Fall prevention, hand protection and stainless steel padlocks wee among the top occupational and facility safety products featured on ISHN.com this week.

Weekly news round-up

June 29, 2019

A worker’s high-profile death at a baseball stadium, workplace violence at a car dealership and not all types of sitting are equally bad for your health. These were among the top occupational safety and health stories featured on ISHN.com this week.

CSB urged at meeting to resume policy of naming victims’ names

June 27, 2019

The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) will be reviewing a recent policy change, after testimony at its public meeting on Tuesday from occupational health experts and worker advocates opposed to the agency’s decision to stop naming accident victims in its reports. CSB Interim Executive Kristen acknowledged “a lot of passion around this subject,” and said that she’d asked the agency’s general counsel to review the policy and to report back with recommendations.

Isolating hazardous energy with maintenance procedures

Lockout-tagout devices must resist corrosives, wet environments, improper removal

Mark H. Stromme

June 26, 2019

When employees perform maintenance on machinery or equipment, you must ensure that they know how to protect themselves from the release of hazardous energy. OSHA’s control of hazardous energy (lockout/tagout) standard at 1910.147 requires you to create procedures for employee protection.

increase self-motivated employee behavior

How can we increase self-motivated behavior?

When no one is watching

E. Scott Geller

June 25, 2019

We do what we do to obtain, avoid, or escape certain consequences. Consequences we work to obtain are termed "positive reinforcers." Consequences we attempt to avoid are "negative reinforcers."

What are new view applications?

Organizations step back and take a broader view

Jim Howe

June 24, 2019

The New View is fundamentally the application of systems thinking to workplace health and safety. It considers safety an emergent property of the system. So what does that jargon mean? Instead of focusing on an individual thing, the organization steps back and takes a broader view.

Top products of the week

June 23, 2019

Nitrile gloves that grasp; a wipe made from bamboo that gets rid of paint, grease and oil but that’s easy on the skin; and an insulated hook that helps in the rescue of injured electrical workers were among the top occupational safety and health products featured on ISHN.com this week.

Weekly news round-up

June 22, 2019

A CBS policy change angers safety advocates; the final frontier is the target of government regulations and a mining safety rule change gets reversed in court. These were among the top stories featured on ISHN.com this week.