Are your employees safe and healthy? How much of an impact can you have on your employees’ overall health? The relationship between occupational safety and health and overall worker health has never been clearer than this year with the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) both in communities and at [...]
The number of staffing agencies and temporary workers grew rapidly during the end of the last century, and the types of alternative work arrangements continue to proliferate. There now are several types of workers in “nonstandard work arrangements.” The Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) lists [...]
Workplace horseplay can cause serious issues for both employees and companies. In a prior article, we looked at a case where an employee broke his leg engaging in horseplay. Although the injury was bad enough, there was the added difficulty of conflicting stories of the incident, and a dispute over workers’ [...]
Worker fatigue poses a clear and present danger to the workforce, but how many environment, health, and safety (EHS) teams have a plan in place to mitigate the risk? It’s important to understand the hazards and put a preventive action plan in place at your organization. Being very tired on [...]
Supervisors have the most direct and frequent contact with employees, which makes them ideal safety leaders in the workplace. With the right tools, proper training, and encouragement from upper management, your front-line leaders can become your best organizational safety champions. Here are a few suggestions for simple, easy verbal contacts [...]
Cher probably says it best: “If I could turn back time…” In the case of workplace incidents, we’d all like to turn back time. We would like to turn it back to the time before the incident occurred; before someone was injured, before property was damaged, before [...]
