According to the National Safety Council (NSC) Injury Facts report, the U.S. suffers more than 100,000 preventable workplace injuries annually. These injuries are defined as “a cut, fracture, sprain, ...

I don't know how many audits I have conducted over the last 20 years, but I know it is in the hundreds. One of the areas that I have found hardest to assess as an auditor is the hazard assessment ...

Can we ever be “too safe?” Before answering that question, consider that in an effort to make the world around us ever-safer, we sometimes tend to ignore unintended tradeoffs with potentially worse ...

Effective occupational health and safety management requires a structured approach to hazard identification and risk assessment, which is best achieved by a management system. The implementation of an ...

With the growth of automation and increase of workers engaging with machines, I felt there would be some benefit to sharing an example of the safety risk assessments that we do in order to reduce or ...

The introduction of process safety system–specific malware into the manufacturing world in 2017 intensified the discussion around the convergence of safety and cybersecurity. If a cyberattack could ...

Chemical regulations exist to safeguard human and environmental health throughout a substance’s life cycle (manufacture, intended use phase, and disposal). Regulatory decisions require scientific ...

Large increases in third-party incidents, breaches, compliance issues, and supply chain disruptions have led many organizations to adapt third-party risk management (TPRM) programs to address emerging ...

Learn strategies to identify and manage business risks, from financial to personnel, with expert insights for minimizing damage and ensuring operational continuity.

If heat-trapping pollution from burning coal, oil and gas continues unchecked, thousands of hazardous sites across the United States risk being flooded from sea level rise by the turn of the century, ...