Safety

Industrial hygiene equipment manufacturers are developing better sensor technology and incorporating its data with geo tracking devices to provide real-time intelligence, improving efficiencies by days and even weeks! These benefits have been widely demonstrated, and now implemented, in a variety of industries around the world. This has many IH professionals asking, “Could these technologies eventually […]

In this 30-minute session, we explored how to expand the focus of your safety management system to address psychosocial risks, using frameworks such as the international occupational health and safety (OHS) standard ISO 45001 and the guidance standard ISO 45003. We also offered practical advice on how to address psychosocial risks in several different industry […]

The IH professionals have long controlled physical hazards and exposures in the workplace, such as noise, chemicals, and dust. Wheras, reducing social or psychosocial factors have often been overlooked. A 2018 study found that 40% of an individual’s health is determinant of social factors. While those factors weren’t important to the workplace historically, they are […]

Notable researcher Jack Dennerlein, PhD, of Harvard University, believes that workers and their health and safety behaviors are a response to the work environment, whether it be organizational or environmental factors. One hundred forty-five million Americans work, and most spend at least 50 percent of their active time at the workplace. Despite improvements in occupational safety […]

Published in March 2018 by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), ISO 45001 is the benchmark for occupational health and safety (OH&S) management systems, as indicated by the number of organizations who have found it important to achieve and maintain third party certifications to the standard. ISO 45001 collects a number of internationally recognized best […]

Anytime there’s a news story about a chemical release or a natural disaster, we’re reminded of the importance of emergency planning and preparedness. Emergency planning is not just about maintaining compliance, or preventing loss of life and property. It’s about strengthening communications with the larger community, for the mutual benefit of employees and the general […]

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