The way we measure safety has contributed to our tendency to manage safety reactively. All of our early safety metrics were reactive, i.e. chronologically after accidents or incidents occurred. Since our metrics essentially were failure metrics, we fell into a pattern of managing safety to produce fewer failures. The serious problem with this approach is
Read more →In late June, OSHA handed out $135,200 in fines to a Texas vegetable processor and its staffing agency for exposing temporary workers to dangerous noise levels, toxic chemicals and other alleged hazards. Earlier in the month, the agency issued $40,600 in fines to California Cereal Products Inc., alleging that the cereal maker exposed full-time and
Read more →Indiana OSHA is investigating a chemical explosion that killed one contractor and injured several other workers Tuesday afternoon at a General Motors stamping plant in Marion, Ind. GM evacuated the plant after the explosion, which killed 48-year-old James Gibson. News reports said the accident involved a chlorine dioxide tank, although it’s unclear what role the
Read more →As would be expected of one of EHS Today’s America’s Safest Companies, Adolfson & Peterson Construction (A&P), one of the nation’s leading general contractors, conducted a coast-to-coast effort to participate in the National Safety Stand-Down to prevent falls in construction. The National Safety Stand-Down to prevent falls in construction, held June 2–6 and initiated by
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