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The American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP) released a new industry consensus standard for construction and demolition worker environment, health, and safety training, the ASSP announced February 18. “Safety, Health and Environmental Training for Construction and Demolition Operations” (American National Standards Institute (ANSI)/ASSP A10.2-2025) establishes training best practices to help organizations in the United States […]
In an analysis released before publication on February 13, Dr. David Michaels, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) longest-serving administrator (from 2009 to 2017), suggested that using injury data from OSHA and other sources can help reduce the risk of work-related injuries. Michaels is now a professor of environmental and occupational health at George […]
Austin Blakely is a safety leader who celebrates the small wins, even while working at a massive company like Boeing. Blakely serves as a senior safety specialist at Boeing in the St. Louis region, where the aerospace giant employs about 15,000 workers and produces high-tech military aircraft and related systems. He has been at the […]
President Donald Trump hit the ground running in his second term, issuing 36 Executive Orders (EO) in his first week of office compared with only four EOs in the first week of his first term in office. EOs impacting the EPA The following initial EOs provide insights into this administration’s agenda and directly affect EPA […]
Smelly Mel’s Plumbing and Sewer Rat Plumbing face a total of $529,640 in state fines for violating safety regulations that resulted in serious injuries to a construction worker during a trench collapse in San Mateo, California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) announced February 10. Cal/OSHA cited the two employers after finding a total […]
Back to Basics is a weekly feature that highlights important but possibly overlooked information that any EHS professional should know. This week, we examine how to stay on top of worker and supervisor safety training. Worker and supervisor training is a key element of your compliance efforts and safety and health management program. All workers […]
EHS Daily Advisor’s Enviro, Social, & Governance Week is wrapping up, the work involved with ESG initiatives will continue on. The Song of the Week focuses on the “E” in ESG with “Before the Water Gets Too High” from New York City indie rock act Parquet Courts. Included on the 2018 album Wide Awake!, the […]
As EHS Daily Advisor’s Enviro, Social, & Governance Week wraps up, let’s recap the various content offerings that became available throughout the week. A special thanks to Avetta, Dakota Software, and KPA for sponsoring the week. Monday Back to Basics | Reducing Your Carbon Footprint Back to Basics is a weekly feature that highlights important but possibly overlooked information […]
With Enviro, Social, & Governance Week in full swing, we’re sharing some ESG insights from some of our recent Faces of EHS guests. Here are their answers to the question, “What will be the impact of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) principles on the EHS industry?” Amanda Rawls Amanda Rawls is EHS Regional Director, KPA. Awareness. […]
In a February 5 decision, an administrative law judge (ALJ) with the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission vacated an Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) citation of a fall protection violation. Review Commission Judge Carol A. Baumerich concluded that the agency’s evidence failed to establish the cited employer’s noncompliance with OSHA’s construction industry fall […]