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1 week ago | 
safetyandhealthmagazine.com | Kevin Druley |Alan Ferguson |Barry Bottino
Carl Heinlein, senior safety consultant at the American Contractors Insurance Group, joins us to discuss the impacts of fatigue on construction workers. We also discuss content from the April issue of Safety+Health. This episode is sponsored by Miller Fall Protection. Learn more about them at automation.honeywell.com/Don’t miss the next one: Sign up to be notified in an email about each new “On the Safe Side” podcast episode.
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1 month ago | 
safetyandhealthmagazine.com | Kevin Druley |Alan Ferguson |Barry Bottino
Home » On the Safe Side podcast Episode 61: Top habits of safety pros and our 5-year anniversaryResources On the Safe Side Podcasts National Safety Council NSC Safety Congress & Expo Safety professionals
Jason Kunz, keynote speaker at the NSC Spring Safety Congress & Expo (set for April 24-25 in Charlotte, N.C.), joins the podcast to discuss habits of highly effective safety pros.
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1 month ago | 
safetyandhealthmagazine.com | Alan Ferguson
Washington — Keith Sonderling’s nomination for deputy labor secretary is moving to the full Senate, after a 12-11 party-line vote by the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. “[Sonderling] was instrumental in creating the independent contractor standard in the first Trump administration, and I hope the Department of Labor will return to this pro-worker policy,” Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), who chairs the committee, said before the March 6 vote.
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1 month ago | 
safetyandhealthmagazine.com | Alan Ferguson
Washington — Keith Sonderling was repeatedly questioned about the Department of Government Efficiency during his Feb. 27 confirmation hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. The deputy secretary of labor nominee’s standard response to inquiries about DOGE’s access to DOL data and information, including on OSHA investigations, was to refer to an ongoing lawsuit between labor unions and the department.
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2 months ago | 
safetyandhealthmagazine.com | Alan Ferguson
March is National Ladder Safety Month. It’s a good time for a reminder about some common mistakes that can lead to ladder-related injuries. Here are 10 of them. 1Not determining if a ladder is the safest equipment for the jobIn certain cases, it might be best to use a different piece of equipment. For example, a scissor lift can allow workers to use both hands, or the lift can move people more efficiently from spot to spot during a job.
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2 months ago | 
safetyandhealthmagazine.com | Alan Ferguson
How much can host employers affect the safety behaviors of their onsite contractors? That’s one of the main questions Jin Lee and his colleagues sought to answer in a recently published study. Lee is an associate professor in Kansas State University’s Psychological Sciences Department.
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2 months ago | 
safetyandhealthmagazine.com | Alan Ferguson
Washington — Lori Chavez-DeRemer tried to distance herself from her sponsorship of the labor-friendly PRO Act during her Feb. 19 confirmation hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. Nominated to lead the Department of Labor, Chavez-DeRemer, who was elected to Congress in 2022, was one of three Republican co-sponsors of the Richard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 2023. That sponsorship may be her biggest hurdle toward confirmation.
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2 months ago | 
safetyandhealthmagazine.com | Alan Ferguson
Home » How to drive in a roundaboutHome and Community Safety & HealthSafetyDrivingArticles mentioned in FSH Instagram posts Drivers: Have you encountered a roundabout lately? Over the past two decades, they’ve gone from “a few sprinkled around the United States” to more than 10,000, the Federal Highway Administration says. They’re more common because they’ve been shown to reduce the risk of serious collisions.
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2 months ago | 
safetyandhealthmagazine.com | Kevin Druley |Alan Ferguson |Barry Bottino
EDITOR’S NOTE: Each month, the Safety+Health editorial team discusses important safety topics, and interviews leading voices in the profession. Kate Crawford, senior research manager for Workplace Safety Programs at the National Safety Council, joins the podcast to discuss tips and guidance on adopting new safety technologies in the “Five Questions With …” segment.
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2 months ago | 
safetyandhealthmagazine.com | Alan Ferguson
Change is difficult. So, it’s no surprise that adopting a new safety technology in the workplace – or making a technological change – can be challenging. What do employers and safety professionals need to take into account as they navigate this process? Safety+Health asked two experts for advice:Kate CrawfordSenior research manager for workplace safety programs, National Safety CouncilCam StevensCEO, Pocketknife Group, and Founder, Safety Innovation AcademyHere’s what they shared.
