Safety

VelocityEHS will be holding its next virtual conference on Wednesday, July 21, 2021, where Phil Molé, EHS & Sustainability Expert, will be presenting the topic “Preparing for OSHA’s Coming HazCom Changes: A Practical Guide” from 10-11 am ET. This session comes during an important time in the history of OSHA’s HazCom Standard. Earlier this year, […]

No one likes a killjoy. It’s no fun when someone is always pointing out what could go wrong or never looking on the bright side. No one likes that person—unless they’re in risk management. A necessary aspect of environmental health & safety (EHS), risk management is a proactive method of protection, looking at an environment […]

by Phil Molé, MPH It’s summertime again, which means that it’s time to fire up the grill and get ready for plenty of fun and sun outside, while of course remembering that we’re not yet fully out of the grips of the COVID-19 pandemic. But summer also brings the potential for exposure to chemicals associated […]

Motion capture has been a gold standard for evaluating whole body movements in research labs for over 20 years. More recently, it has become feasible to apply this technology to job assessments in manufacturing environments. Originally, motion capture required the person to wear a large array of markers while the data was collected with multiple cameras to precisely record body […]

OSHA has issued an Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) to protect healthcare and healthcare support service workers from exposure to variants of the SARS CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19. The Federal Register published the ETS on June 21, 2021 and it became effective on the same date. This ETS comes shortly after OSHA also updated its […]

The National Safety Council (NSC) is celebrating 25 years of National Safety Month during the month of June, and to celebrate we have been helping them spread awareness of the importance of workplace health and safety. As National Safety Month’s exclusive sponsor, VelocityEHS is also devoted to providing educational and valuable content to help employers […]

The theme of the third week of National Safety Month (NSM) can sound a bit ambiguous at first—psychological safety. How can safety professionals create a safety program that sufficiently covers something that can seem abstract? With the risks and issues of psychological safety not as easily visible as physical ones are, this aspect of safety […]

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of National Safety Month, the National Safety Council is inviting you to recognize a safety professional – or anyone who inspires you to be safe – with a donation. In the spirit of honoring our safety heroes, VelocityEHS will match each donation up to a total of $25,000! In addition, […]

by Phil Molé, MPH National Safety Council (NSC) designates June of each year as National Safety Month (NSM), and as part of NSM this year, they’re inviting us to name our safety hero: the person who most inspired us by their example. For me, that’s an easy one. My safety hero is my dad, the […]

A structure fire that erupted yesterday at a chemical product manufacturing facility in Rockton, Illinois prompted a mandatory evacuation of surrounding communities, and resulted in the destruction of the facility and confirmed injury to at least one first responder at the time of this writing. According to local reports, multiple area firefighters received calls reporting […]