How Marijuana Affects Worker Rights, Workplace Safety December 5, 2016 By BOB SALSBERG Changing marijuana laws aren’t necessarily making weed more welcome in the workplace. For now, many employers appear to be sticking...
Hollywood Workplace Injury Statistics November 21, 2016 Things can go wrong on film and television sets: a foot slips off a ladder, a stunt goes awry, a...
Oklahoma Airport Shooting Likely Case of Workplace Revenge November 19, 2016 By TIM TALLEY A man who gunned down a Southwest Airlines employee outside of Oklahoma City’s airport likely did so in retaliation for...
Arkansas, Louisiana, and West Virginia Have Highest Rates of Workplace Deaths in Southeastern U.S. November 15, 2016 According to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), researchers found that one U.S. region with a particularly...
Top 10 OSHA Citations of 2016 November 14, 2016 Last month, the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration released a list of the 10 most frequently cited...
How Employer Finances Affect Workplace Safety September 8, 2016 More than 3.5 million workplace injuries and illnesses occur each year in the United States, costing an estimated $250 billion...
Missouri Sees Rise in Workplace Deaths September 2, 2016 Missouri has seen an increase in the number of workers killed while on the job, according to the Occupational Safety...
Improper Use of Safety Line May Have Caused Wyoming Worker’s Death August 31, 2016 Wyoming authorities say an improperly used safety cable may have contributed to the June death of an oil rig worker....
Tennessee OSHA Chief Says Recent Deaths ‘Alarming’ August 26, 2016 The head of the Tennessee Occupational Safety and Health Administration says a spike in on-the-job fatalities last month is “alarming.”...
Staying Ahead of Workplace Violence by Identifying Behaviors of Concern August 24, 2016 By Denise Johnson In most incidents involving violence in the workplace, there are warning signs that precede an event, according to Jim Satterfield,...