Workplace safety spends quite a lot of time focusing on physical health. After all, physical hazards are some of the most obvious hazards your workers face.

Zero harm: it’s a new safety culture movement that focuses on what it says: providing a completely safe environment for workers, contractors, and visitors on a daily basis.

As a company committed to safety, you find yourself walking a tightrope. On one hand, safety is part of your core values. You want to ensure that every employee comes to work safe and goes home from work safe and healthy.

Building a positive safety culture, like building a reputation, takes time. In the words of Warren Buffett, it takes 20 years to build a reputation – and five minutes to ruin one.

When was the last time you did something kind?

People management and workplace safety often overlap, though many companies don’t know how to navigate this overlap gracefully. That’s because HR professionals are often asked to wear safety hats that they may not be fully equipped to handle, while safety professionals view HR as stepping on their toes.

EHS is an incredibly diverse, rewarding field. You can have a group of safety professionals in the same room who all work on completely different things. And if you’re a brand-new professional, one of the first steps in your career is figuring out your focus area.

Nowadays, the Department of Labor looms large in occupational health and safety.

As a safety professional, you’re used to wearing a lot of hats. Sometimes, it feels like all you do is run in twenty different directions, putting out fires.

How and when a company allows employees to return to work after experiencing an injury or illness is something that many companies don’t plan for until the situation is actually happening, which is unfortunately the wrong time to start thinking about it.