A Hazard is anything that has the potential to cause harm, injuries, accidents or other undesirable effects. A Risk is the possibility that a personal injury, property loss or environmental harm will ...

Safety isn't necessarily a common core value within companies, but with a little expectation management and communication, it could be. Within every company, there are values that employers want their ...

Here’s a hypothetical scenario: You are a safety and health professional going where no professional has gone before. You’ve been hired by a metal fabricating plant in the Midwest. It is family-owned ...

The idea of having someone closely watch your employees as they work while making notes on a clipboard sounds scary for the participants being viewed, but that’s what happens during a job safety ...

Oil and gas extraction can be dangerous work. Between 2015 and 2017, there were 161 fatalities and hundreds more incidents reported, according to data from the National Institute for Occupational ...

Alexis Jones '20 always says yes to an opportunity, even if she isn’t entirely sure what she is getting herself into. Saying yes led her to Flint, Michigan, in the midst of the water crisis, to hiring ...

Experts identify common hazards in the home and what can be done to prevent accidents. By Jolie Kerr As stay-at-home orders drag on and summer approaches, parents and caregivers will need to be more ...

Effective risk management starts with identifying and addressing hazards before incidents occur. While most safety professionals understand that a thorough job safety analysis (JSA) is a trusted ...

Good emergency planning practices and regulatory compliance mandate that long-term care facilities identify the potential threats, perils, and hazards that can adversely impact operations both from an ...

For years, small planes have buzzed across the skies of Washington carrying specialized instrument packages that peer down through the belly of the aircraft. As they soar above mountains, rivers and ...