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As an environment, health, and safety (EHS) manager, you want to protect your employees from workplace violence. Here are some tips for assessing risk from what is going to be required of healthcare facilities under California’s new Violence Prevention in Healthcare standard.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) recently confirmed that two provisions of the hours-of-service rule that have been suspended since December 2014 will remain suspended.
Recently, a subscriber asked the following question: Can we use a work platform connected to a fork truck to lift employees? If yes what are the regulations?
Yesterday we discussed the importance of environment, health, and safety (EHS) managers being aware of what is going on in state regulatory developments—a case in point being California’s new standard for preventing violence to healthcare workers. We looked at elements of the new standard that have to be in place this April 1, 2017. Today […]
What’s the key to sustaining a high level of safety performance for nearly two decades? Find out how one employer does it.
Many news outlets have reported on a leaked 23-page budget the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) sent to the EPA, which recommends an overall 24 percent cut to the Agency’s total annual budget for fiscal year (FY) 2018 to go along with a 19 percent reduction in EPA staff. The OMB document itself has […]
What are states up to? Since the stated intent of the Trump administration is to have the states be the primary regulators and enforcers of environment, safety, and health (EHS) laws, what states are doing will be a recurring theme in the Advisor. With that in mind, we will take a look at a new […]
The Environmental Working Group (EWG) promptly greeted President Trump’s Executive Order directing the withdrawal or modification of the Clean Water Rule (CWR) with data from a 2009 EPA study the EWG says shows that 117 million Americans draw at least some of their drinking water from intermittent, ephemeral, and other small streams.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation has released a free online platform to educate business owners and members of the community on steps to ensure a safe, crime-free work environment.
The Pebble Mine—like the Keystone XL Pipeline and North Dakota Access Pipeline, another mega project rejected by the Obama administration—may also get a second look under President Trump. That, in any case, is the expressed hope of Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), chair of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. In a letter to […]