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2015 in review: OSH convention highlights

January 1, 2016

From Salt Lake City, Utah to Dusseldorf, Germany, safety professionals traveled far and wide to expand their professional knowledge and engage in networking with their colleagues. Here are some highlights from 2015’s occupational safety and health conventions:

About those Millennials...

How to engage and relate to younger workers

December 31, 2015

Millennnials comprise an enormous percentage of the U.S. workforce – and their numbers and influence will only continue to rise. They bring different perspectives to work (and everything else) than previous generations, which presents both challenges and opportunities to those who manage them. Here’s a look at 2015 articles about Millennials:

Ways to make your safety culture bettter

December 30, 2015

ISHN columnist Dr. John Kello writes extensively about ways companies can improve their safety cultures. Here’s a look back at his ISHN magazine columns for 2015.

Thought leaders share their OSH advice in 2015

December 29, 2015

From the value of mistakes to how to increase safety staffing on the cheap, the top OSH thinkers shared their views and guidance with ISHN website visitors throughout 2015.

ISHN's 2015 cover stories: IH, LOTO, training and more

December 28, 2015

A look back at ISHN magazine’s cover stories for 2015 shows the top topics and pressing priorities for safety professionals.

FairWarning’s 2015 stories on ISHN.com

December 27, 2015

FairWarning is a nonprofit investigative news organization that focuses on public health, safety and environmental issues and related topics of government and business accountability. FairWarning has allowed its hard-hitting reports to be posted on ISHN.com:

AHA: Teens trying alternative tobacco products a “disturbing trend”

December 26, 2015

There’s good news and bad news in a new National Institute of Drug Abuse’s 2015 Monitoring the Future Survey. The good news: cigarette smoking continues to drop among teens. The bad news: more young Americans are taking up e-cigarettes and cigarillos.

From NIOSH’ Research Rounds bulletins

Survey of long-haul truck drivers underscores safety concerns

December 25, 2015

When we go to the grocery store, we expect to find shelves stocked with the food we like, seldom reflecting on how it got there. Behind those stocked shelves, however, are the long-haul truck drivers whose jobs regularly require them to leave their families, friends, and homes to travel hundreds of miles to deliver the products that we buy.

Happy holidays!

December 24, 2015

Happy holidays from the staff of Industrial Safety & Hygiene News, and best wishes for a safe and prosperous new year.

DOT's holiday message: Drive sober or get pulled over

A "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" connection

December 23, 2015

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has launched a nationwide campaign to get drunk drivers off the road this holiday season that includes a new Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over ad to run in movie theaters immediately before the blockbuster movie Star Wars: The Force Awakens.