The REACH regime used in the European Union is creating a strong push for end users to substitute less-hazardous chemicals, according to a study conducted by Joel Tickner and Molly Jacobs from the University of Massachusetts Lowell Centre for Sustainable Production.
Read more →Study says real wages for private-sector workers barely have risen over the past three and a half decades, in contrast with the post-World War II period when workers saw greater pay increases. Union bargaining power has been on a steady decline for decades and nonunion workers’ wallets are feeling the effects, according to a new
Read more →Personnel selection and training could mitigate the effects of cognitive lock-up among automation operators. Automation failures have been the cause widely reported disasters, such as the crash of Air France Flight 447 in 2009, as well as much more minor incidents in just about every workplace that uses automation. In the case of the Air
Read more →The investigation of the death of a lathe operator at a Wisconsin company revealed safety violations. As he hand-polished a 40-inch long metal cylinder, a 36-year-old lathe operator at the Carlson Tool & Manufacturing Corp. in Cedarsburg, Wisc., became entangled in the machine’s operating spindle and suffered injuries that led to his death two days
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