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February 24, 20255 ways to use tech to enhance Total Worker Health
How to boost worker safety, improve your bottom line, and help your team spend their time where it counts.
Modern workplaces are becoming more complex every day. Workers seek meaningful work and a good work-life balance, while employers juggle organizational needs with employee well-being. It’s more crucial than ever to look after your people by prioritizing health and safety.
Total Worker Health is an integrated approach that addresses traditional safety hazards alongside factors like mental health, workload, and team dynamics. This holistic approach helps keep employees safer and happier, leading to better business outcomes.
What is Total Worker Health?
Total Worker Health (TWH) is an initiative developed by the US National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health to create -
February 24, 2025What Changes Will Happen with OSHA?
An analysis of the regulatory climate and advice on how companies can manage the changes.
With the uncertainty around how OSHA will look under the new administration, I took the opportunity to answer a few questions about the proposal and OSHA's evolving regulatory environment.
So far in early 2025, there’s a proposal to abolish OSHA, an ongoing effort to shrink the federal government and reduce the federal labor force, and an executive order to repeal 10 existing regulations for every new regulation. What can we say about how things are likely to play out based on what we’re seeing now?
First, let’s take stock of where things are now, and what’s likely to happen, making as few assumptions as possible.
Let’s tackle the big question first, about the proposal to abolish OSHA. Arizona representative Andy Biggs -
February 24, 2025A Safer Warehouse Starts with an Engaged Workforce
To enhance warehouse safety, you must identify the limitations of the technologies you have deployed.
No matter the industry, it seems that technology continues to move ever more swiftly. Each June, on National Forklift Safety Day, as the material handling industry focuses on the importance of forklift safety, attention often turns toward the latest technologies that can help maintain and strengthen a healthy safety culture, giving forklift operators the tools, training, feedback and confidence they need to do their jobs more proficiently.
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There are technologies available today that simply didn’t exist, even just a few short years ago. For instance, a growing number of operator assist technologies can help operators prioritize -
February 24, 2025The Future of Safety Training
Key insights from the 2024 State of Safety Training Survey offer direction on how to elevate your safety program.
Throughout the first half of 2024, EHS Today partnered with SafetyNow to produce the 2024 State of Safety Training Survey, which offers a revealing look into the challenges and opportunities shaping workplace safety today. With input from over 5,000 safety professionals and responses from a massive outreach to more than 400,000 individuals, the findings give practical direction for anyone looking to elevate their safety programs.
Here are the key takeaways—and what they mean for you.
The Future of Safety Training is Blended
If you’re still relying solely on traditional classroom-style safety training, it’s time to rethink your approach. Over 90% of surveyed professionals agree that blended learning—mixing -
February 19, 2025ASSP Issues New Training Standard for Construction Sites Types of applicable training on construction and demolition sites include new hire, site safety, regulatory, pre-job, supervisor leadership and retraining.
On February 18, the American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP) published a new national voluntary consensus standard for safety training on construction and demolition sites.
These sites, notes ASSP, are among the most hazardous work environments.
ANSI/ASSP A10.2-2025 “Safety, Health and Environmental Training for Construction and Demolition Operations,” establishes training practices to help organizations across the country eliminate hazards and risks that cause injuries, illnesses and fatalities.
“Uniform practices for training construction personnel can create much safer jobsites," said Gary Gustafson, chair -
February 10, 2025The New Blueprint for Construction Safety
AI-powered platforms for enhanced insight into emerging risks.
In 2023, construction fatalities hit the highest number since 2011. This statistic demonstrates the need for a new approach to protecting workers. The industry has the opportunity to make 2025 a transformative year for safety.
It won’t be easy. This year, the construction industry will continue to struggle with a workforce shortage, creating a number of safety and operational challenges. However, new frameworks and technologies give organizations powerful ways to enhance their safety practices. Events that could have — but did not — result in a serious injury or fatality (SIF-p) should command more attention, and safety leaders can leverage AI-powered platforms for enhanced insight into emerging risks.
These changes can help the industry evolve beyond outdated approaches, combining cultural shifts and innovative technologies to better protect its -
February 10, 2025EPA Launches Wildfire Hazardous Material Removal Effort
Having completed reconnaissance at 6,022 properties, the next phase of debris removal has begun.
On Jan. 24, 2025, President Trump issued Executive Order Emergency Measures to Provide Water Resources in California and Improve Disaster Response in Certain Areas. This directs EPA to complete its hazardous materials mission responding to the Los Angeles wildfires as soon as practical. EPA’s work removing hazardous materials is Phase 1 of the federal cleanup response.
The Phase 2 debris removal in the burn footprints, and to prevent these materials from being released into the environment. Phase 2 will be conducted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, as coordinated by FEMA. Once Phase 1 has been completed at a property, Phase 2 will begin automatically.
And on February 3, the EPA announced that it has completed reconnaissance at 6,022 properties due to the wildfires. This includes 3,636 properties impacted -
February 03, 2025A look at safety articles from parent company Endeavor Business Media.
EHS Today's parent company, Endeavor Business Media, has a number of brands that address safety concerns in their sectors. Here is a sample of some of those stories.
Fall Protection Focus: Rooftop Fall Protection Systems
Buildings contributor, Philip Jacklin of Diversified Fall Protection, notes that responsible building owners and employers ensure their rooftops are safe from fall hazards and their workers are properly trained on all corporate safety policies.
Securing Safe Robotic Workplaces
AutomationWorld ‘s contributing writer Mat Dirjish spoke with experts from Rockwell Automation and Siemens on the best way to ensure safe operations to protect workers and equipment when deploying robots.
Warehousing and Logistics Construction Is Booming, but Safety Needs to Be -
February 03, 2025Gallup says leaders need to prioritize creating a culture of well-being that surpasses their current efforts to sustain employee performance.
With the start of every new year, it makes sense to look at the trends that will affect your workforce. A recent article from Gallup on workforce trends found a number of interesting trends.
They note "historically low employee engagement and wellbeing levels indicate employees are struggling. Many report feeling disconnected from their organization’s mission and like their organization doesn’t care about them."
Furthermoe, the measure of key employee experiences remain below pre-pandemic levels.
The article dicusses trend employers will face this year. (Three are excerpted here.)
The Great Detachment Threatens Performance
In 2024, U.S. employee engagement reached an 11-year low. Other key
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