One factor behind the favorable job satisfaction found in the EHS ranks, according to ISHN’s 2015 EHS State of the Nation subscriber survey, could come down to the bottom line – salaries. Fifty-five percent of respondents expect “slightly higher” incomes in 2015, and 6% expect “much higher” salaries.

According to ISHN’s 2015 EHS State of the Nation subscriber survey, EHS department staffing should remain stable in most organizations in the coming year. Expectations for overall EHS department headcounts in ’15: only 5% see headcounts shrinking “slightly” and a scant 1% plan on “significant decreases.”

It’s been a long hard slog for the U.S. economy to recovery from the Great Recession of 2007-2008

In 1998, I was touring a large production facility to get a feel for the operations.

Very recently one of my sons and I put passenger seats back into our family van.

This doesn’t mean executives are heartless capitalists willing to break the bodies of workers just to earn an extra couple of bucks, and it doesn’t necessarily mean they care any less about safety than the rest of us; as Michael Corleone might have said, “it’s just business.”

Safety “programs” that emphasize the role of human error/unsafe acts have an interesting history.

We’ve all heard about the “feedback sandwich” where it’s recommended that critical feedback should be sandwiched by positive feedback on both sides.

Personal protective equipment (PPE) for the eyes and face is designed to prevent or lessen the severity of injuries to workers.

First-line supervisors are the link between where strategic decisions are made on high with where the work of the organization gets done.