The role of academic faculty members who have laboratory research programs has expanded from that of Principal Investigator and academic mentor to laboratory supervisor with responsibility for ...

Russell offered this advice at the National Safety Congress in Chicago: To mobilize supervisors, you must: Understand what you're dealing with (cultural resistance, "we've always done it this way," ...

Safety ultimately is about what happens in the workplace. When leaders set the directive to change the culture and lead improvement throughout the organization, it becomes imperative to transfer ...

Sometimes, a supervisor gets priorities skewed. At one facility, the plant engineer pushed the maintenance manager relentlessly, insisting on insanely long hours. This lasted until the day the ...

When an employer receives a citation for violation of Occupational Safety and Health Administration safety regulations, it can assert an affirmative defense claiming that the employees were exposed to ...

One lawsuit can cripple a construction firm, and one overlooked detail can cost a worker his life. At the 2005 Annual Construction Safety Conference, presenter Patrick Conroy, vice president of Risk ...

Lockout/tagout is a great example of traditional workplace safety in action: identify a hazard, put a procedure in place and train workers to follow that procedure in order to avoid exposure to the ...

WEST POINT, N.Y. (March 31, 2011) -- The workplace can be fraught with dangers. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics 2009 report on occupational injuries and illnesses, there was a significant ...

BUT IT WAS ONLY LAIRD'S BILL THAT GOT THE SUPPORT OF COUNTY SUPERVISORS.. JANUARY'S MOSS LANDING FIRE AT THE VISTRA ENERGY STORAGE FACILITY LEADING STATE LAWMAKERS TO CONSIDER BETTER SAFETY STANDARDS ...