May 2019 Newsletter

OSHA inspectors will consider employer good-faith efforts in complying with safety and health regs during the COVID-19 pandemic. Because the pandemic could limit the availability of essential safety and industrial hygiene services, the agency is asking its inspectors to assess an employer’s good faith efforts. Compliance After Re-opening Current infection…

People seem attentive during training but afterwards they quickly forget what they’ve learned. What steps can I take to improve knowledge retention rates? Few people have the ability to remember something they’ve only been told once. This is especially true if you’re competing with continuously changing priorities and a ton…

Forming, Changing and Reinforcing Key Safety Behaviors By definition, safety professionals are responsible for controlling exposure to risk. As a result, they tend to focus their efforts on establishing procedures, engineering solutions and other controls designed to restrict workers’ risk exposure. At their best, these systems are logical, comprehensive and…

Washington – Already in its longest period without a permanent administrator, OSHA will have to wait even longer, as Scott Mugno has withdrawn from consideration as the agency’s assistant secretary of labor, according to a Bloomberg Law report published May 15. A LinkedIn page for Scott A. Mugno was changed from “Awaiting…

The Problem of Informal Social Power in Industrial Safety Safety is about good intentions. What nobler goal could there be than saving lives and keeping an entire company’s workforce healthy? These good intentions often focus on power. After all, the safety industry is preoccupied with controlling and limiting hazardous energy—literally…

  NASP/IASP is delighted to announce our network has expanded. We would like to formally introduce two of our new franchises overseas! Green World Group, established in 2006, offers well researched, industry-specific and highly comprehensive safety and health courses which are bundled to enhance every participant’s knowledge and equip them…

Drivers distracted by their cell phones are a growing threat on U.S. roads, and they’re at least as dangerous as drunk drivers, according to data from Zendrive. Zendrive’s third annual Distracted Driving Study found over 60% of drivers use their phones while driving each day, and out of the 1.8…

The 2019 Liberty Mutual Workplace Safety Index is more specific than in previous years. This year’s index, for the first time, breaks out the causes and costs of the most serious workplace injuries for eight industries. Liberty Mutual’s 2019 index indicates that the top 10 causes were the same between…

Nearly 40 individuals, comprised of mostly emergency responders, are hospitalized after a leaking anhydrous ammonia tank being transported by a tractor. When local officials arrived at the scene of the incident, they immediately observed a cloud of smoke, fume inhalation forced the retreat of those individuals. Residents living within a…

Anhydrous ammonia, among many other chemicals, can pose serious hazards to human health. As we’ve seen in this article, emergency responders are tasked with the immediate response to various situations, and without proper training, can succumb to the symptoms of the chemicals with which they come into contact. NASP offers…