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1 week ago | 
safetyandhealthmagazine.com | Melissa J. Ruminski
Every time our friend Richard Hawk sends in his monthly “All About You” column, I’m curious to learn what topic he’s chosen to write about. This month, it’s the importance of camaraderie at work. I’m grateful to say it’s a subject I can relate to. I’m a little more than six months away from my 25th anniversary at the National Safety Council. One of the biggest reasons I still enjoy logging on in the morning is that I get to see and talk with my amazing co-workers.
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1 month ago | 
safetyandhealthmagazine.com | Melissa J. Ruminski
If it’s June, it’s National Safety Month. Now in its 29th year, this National Safety Council initiative raises awareness of injury and illness prevention. Go to nsc.org/nsm to find activities, tips and other resources you can use to engage workers and reinforce your commitment to keeping all employees safe and healthy.
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2 months ago | 
safetyandhealthmagazine.com | Melissa J. Ruminski
When I sat down to write this Editor’s Note, I tried to remember when I first became aware of the concept of serious injury and fatality prevention – or saw the acronym “SIF.” And, in truth, I couldn’t recall. So, I went to the Safety+Health website and clicked on the earliest issue available online: January 2013. Sure enough, SIFs are mentioned in a column. I then went to our file server and checked content from 2012. SIFs were written about that year, too.
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Mar 23, 2025 | 
safetyandhealthmagazine.com | Melissa J. Ruminski
If you’re a regular reader of Safety+Health (and if so, thank you), you’re probably familiar with our Job Outlook survey. This year, we’re trying something a little different: We’ve taken elements of the Job Outlook and added questions to create what we’re calling the State of Safety. The new questions ask about safety culture, leading/lagging indicators, technology, and current and future challenges. I hope you find them interesting.
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Feb 23, 2025 | 
safetyandhealthmagazine.com | Melissa J. Ruminski
I don’t know any women who haven’t felt frustration at one time or another when trying to find clothes that fit properly. Sizing among manufacturers is incredibly inconsistent, and a size that fits us perfectly in one brand can be either too large or too small in another. And as someone who’s over 6 feet tall, finding sleeves and pants that are long enough has been a challenge for me since high school. In the past decade or so, though, more tall sizes have become available.
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Jan 26, 2025 | 
safetyandhealthmagazine.com | Melissa J. Ruminski
Home » Editor’s Note: Keep those stories comingEditor's Note CEOs Who "Get It" National Safety Council Safety profession Safety professionals Every February, we introduce you to another group of the National Safety Council’s CEOs Who ‘Get It’ – leaders who demonstrate a personal commitment to worker safety and health. For NSC, “personal” is a key word. It’s echoed in the council’s Safety is Personal initiative, which has continued into 2025.
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Nov 23, 2024 | 
safetyandhealthmagazine.com | Melissa J. Ruminski
I’ve been to the National Safety Council’s annual Safety Congress & Expo so many times that I can’t remember at which one I first met Richard Fairfax. A former director of enforcement programs at OSHA as well as deputy assistant secretary of labor for occupational safety and health, Rich was a welcome presence during many presentations of OSHA’s Top 10 most cited standards, sharing data as well as his insights.
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
safetyandhealthmagazine.com | Melissa J. Ruminski
You may find this amusing coming from someone who writes a monthly column, but I don’t care for the sound of my own voice. I mean it literally, though. To my ear, my voice is wildly inconsistent, ranging from a thin, pinched sound when I’m stressed to a raspy baritone when I’m fighting a cold or allergies. I also tend to talk too fast. Many years ago, I was tapped to moderate my first Safety+Health webinar.
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Sep 21, 2024 | 
safetyandhealthmagazine.com | Melissa J. Ruminski
Maybe it’s the amount of time I spend on social media, but I sometimes find myself dismayed by the number of posts I see that try to pit generational groups against each other. Gen Z vs. millennials vs. Gen X vs. baby boomers … you’ve probably seen the posts, too. Someone from a particular group dislikes, derides or dismisses the values, habits and opinions of another generation. At their worst, they’ve led me to question the value of placing people into groups.
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Aug 24, 2024 | 
safetyandhealthmagazine.com | Melissa J. Ruminski
Most of the content you read in Safety+Health is written by our team of associate editors. Barry Bottino, Kevin Druley and Alan Ferguson are busy reporting news, hosting our monthly podcast, moderating webinars and producing feature articles. Although the writers can – and do – report on anything, they each gravitate toward certain news beats and topics. Take Alan, who’s responsible for a lot of our coverage of regulation and legislation.
