Every day, more cities instruct citizens to stay at home and practice social distancing. Grocery stores are selling out of pantry items and hand sanitizer. Non-essential businesses are ordered to close or work from home. Countries are going into lockdown and closing their borders.
Topics: Workplace Health and Safety, In the News, Incident Management, Hospital & Health Care, Safety Management
When most people take to the air, they’re probably ignoring the in-flight safety instructions and thinking about how best to run time on the plane. They’re not generally worried about safety. They typically assume that planes are built to fly safely.
Topics: In the News, Logistics and Transportation
In August 2019, McDonald’s announced that it would roll out a brand new workplace safety training program for workers and managers in response to employee complaints.
Topics: In the News, Training Management, Food & Beverage
Most of us don’t think twice about where our food comes from. We buy it from the store, take it home, eat it, and the rest, as they say, is history.
Topics: In the News, Food Safety, FDA, Food & Beverage
We are a species obsessed with data. We generate a mind-boggling 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every single day. Between our smartphones, wearables, and internet interaction, there’s an astonishing amount of information about us.
Topics: In the News
Don Foerster, longtime safety director for the City of Huntingburg, Indiana, announced his retirement this summer. He has served as Huntingburg's safety and risk management director for 24 years, the first person to hold the title.
Topics: In the News
A new bill in the House of Representatives is tackling a workplace hazard that’s long been disregarded: increasing heat.
Topics: Workplace Health and Safety, In the News
Of all the problems that the manufacturing industry has to deal with, industry leaders would hope that the price of their products isn’t one of them.
Topics: In the News, Manufacturing
In 2014, 261,930 workers from the private sector, as well as state and local government, missed work due to fall-related injuries. About 798 workers died of their injuries.
Topics: OSHA, In the News
These days, it seems like every street corner has a row of scooters, parked and patiently waiting for riders. And if the scooters aren’t parked, they’re in motion – zipping along sidewalks and forcing pedestrians to jump out of the way.
Topics: Trends, In the News, Consumer Safety
