June 2018 Newsletter

Creating an effective Safety Culture is something we preach daily to our clients, partners, friends, and family. Through our decades of experience, we have learned that an effective Safety Culture is something that is developed through individuals buying into the idea that safety is the top value at home and…

The National Association of Safety Professionals is proud to be part of the Wilmington Regional Safety & Health School this year.  Each year, safety professionals from around the area organize this excellent event which brings nationally recognized speakers to the Port City to focus on the latest in safety-related topics…

We just completed our CSM course in Wilmington, NC and what a diverse crowd we had attend from around the world.  I met with several of the students after the class for a nice, cold beverage and enjoyed some of the feedback I received. We had ‘newbies’ and veterans alike…

When things have been going well for a period of time, workers can develop a false sense of security. “I’ve been doing it this way for 20 years,” they may say. “Nothing will ever happen to me.” The problem with this line of complacent thinking: The majority of people who…

President Trump’s first year-plus in office has been anything but quiet. But his influence on OSHA and workplace safety hasn’t made too many headlines. Jordan Barab, a former OSHA official under Obama, reviewed the biggest changes OSHA has made in the first 17 months of the Trump administration during a…

Steel plate falls on, kills worker: $162K OSHA fine A struck-by incident killed an employee of this company. OSHA visited after having fined the company just last year in a separate incident. Douglas N. Higgins Inc., a utility company, faces $162,596 in proposed penalties following an incident in which an…

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Vape pen explosion pierces Florida man’s cranium killing him: Two pieces of the vape pen were in Tallmadge D’Elia’s cranium A US man died when a vape pen blew up and projected fragments into his skull, a post-mortem examination has found. Tallmadge D’Elia also suffered burns over 80% of his…