We Need a Global Standard Governing the Internet of Things and the Connected Workforce

EHSQ Alliance Affiliate Facing the challenges and risks surrounding the Internet of Things and the connected workforce will require an internationally recognized standard. Taking an overview of the developments in workplace...

Linking Audits to Strategic Plans

Nicole Radziwill It’s strategic planning time! Use these guidelines to make it easier for you to translate your company’s amazing ideas into reality. Audits and management reviews, especially when they are used...

Building a World-Class Safety Culture

Sandy Smith Have you created opportunities for your workers to choose risk? Ask yourself: “Can an organization leave so much variation within the work system that it places workers at risk of making poor...

The Connected Worker: A Roadmap for Preparing Your Organization for New Technology to Reduce Safety Risks

Sandy Smith Your workers are already connected to each other and to a vast world of information in their personal lives. Why not use that connectivity to improve their safety in the workplace? If you polled your...

Use Mobile If You Want to Get Your Safety Management Program Moving

Lauren Charbon Watch this webinar and dive into real use cases of organizations that have deployed EHS mobile applications to drive engagement, increase valuable data points and improve EHS program success. Do you...

Strategic Planning: Opportunities, Objectives, and Action

Nicole Radziwill It’s strategic planning time! Use these guidelines to make it easier for you to translate your company’s amazing ideas into reality. Whether your fiscal year starts in October or January, many...

Keeping Employees Safe + Sound: Best Practices

Sandy Smith Connecting workers via mobile apps and software systems puts safety at their fingertips. Safe + Sound Week is a nationwide event held each August that recognizes the successes of workplace health and...

New York Bans 1,4-dioxane in Consumer Packaged Goods, California Likely to Follow

EHSQ Alliance Affiliate In response to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s determination that 1,4-dioxane is a likely human carcinogen, New York and California have both taken action to limit public exposure to the...

Celebrating Safe + Sound Week

Sandy Smith Want to keep workers Safe + Sound? Keep them connected! The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) will join businesses and organizations nationwide to...

Air Malta’s Digital Transformation

Nicole Radziwill In a risk-averse industry, one company designed a digital transformation that turned their multi-million-dollar losses into profit. Find out what they did to improve quality and drive growth. Malta...

The United Kingdom: A Forerunner on Environmental Issues

EHSQ Alliance Affiliate The UK is the first country to pass a law banning greenhouse gas and carbon emissions by 2050 and specific requirements to meet this goal are likely to follow.  By Serena Anand, EHS Regulatory...

I Don't Have a SOP for that Issue

EHSQ Alliance Contributor Standard Operating Procedures (SOPS) have morphed from useful practical guidance to bewildering multi-page tomes which clash with the realty of how to do the job. More troubling, SOPs may be used as...

Occupational Health and Safety: Estimating the Cost of Worker Injuries, Illnesses and Fatalities in the EU

Sandy Smith The need to improve working life in the European Union (EU) remains urgent, according to a new report that estimates the financial burden of work-related diseases, injuries and deaths. In 2016,...

The Status of Trump Administration Environmental Regulatory Rollbacks

Lorraine O'Donovan, EHSQ Alliance Affiliate The Trump administration has moved to freeze or reverse dozens of environmental regulations. This article from STP provides details about the policies under review and how they have been or will be...

Utilize Modular Kaizen To Launch Continuous Improvement Efforts

Nicole Radziwill Not enough people (or too much work) to let your kaizen team go off on their own for a while? Try this instead to launch your continuous quality improvement initiatives. The kaizen event is a quick (...