Safety excellence is one of those terms that most OSH professionals talk about, yet achieving safety excellence can be difficult. During his presentation at ASSE’s Construction Safety Symposium, Chris Golden, CSP, PMP, will help attendees develop a strategy for removing barriers they may encounter on this journey to excellence. Read more...
By their nature, construction sites are constantly in flux. That creates a paradox for OSH professionals, who must be on site to note potential hazards and stay aware of changes, but also need to retreat to an office to report findings. Traditionally it has been hard to create reports or job hazards analyses (JHAs) on site, but technology can streamline the process, according to Michael Palmer, CSP, CIH, CHMM, vice president of health and safety services at EnSafe Inc. Read more...
ASSE recently talked to Linda M. Goldenhar, Ph.D., director, Research and evaluation, with CPWR The Center for Construction Research andTraining. She will present “Safety Culture, Safety Climate, and Safety Leadership in Construction” at ASSE’s Construction Safety Symposium Nov. 12-13 in New Orleans, LA. Read more...
ASSE recently spoke with Michael Flynn, assistant coordinator, Priority Populations and Health Disparities Program for NIOSH, about workers with overlapping vulnerabilities in the construction industry. Flynn is a presenter at ASSE’s upcoming Construction Symposium, Nov. 12-13, 2015, in New Orleans, LA. His general session, “Protecting Construction Workers With OverlappingVulnerabilities” is scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 12, from 1 to 2 p.m. Read more...
Human factors can affect performance, and, if left unaddressed, they can deeply effect employee safety and health. According to John Isham, CSP, CIH, STS, senior environmental safety and health director at AECOM, managing human factors is the key to delivering an effective safety and health program. Human performance tools teach employees key concepts to improve focus and decision making so employees can avoid making mistakes, he says. Read more...
On Thursday, Nov. 12 at the ASSE Symposium for Construction Safety in New Orleans, LA, Kenneth Daigle, director of safety at BP will present “An Overview of Risk Assessment: A New Dimension in Construction Safety Management?” as part of the symposium’s track on risk assessment and prevention through design. Daigle will discuss hazards in the construction industry and the risk assessment involved. Read more...
Over the past 2 years, NIOSH, OSHA and CPWR have drawn increased attention to construction safety, and particularly preventing fall-related injuries and fatalities, through the National Stand-Down. The event has been successful in focusing employer and employee attention on the need to identify and control hazards and to communicate clearly about the importance of approaching each work task with safety in mind. Read more...
Gary Lopez, CSP, has a long history of involvement in standards-development activities. He served for many years on ASSE Standards Development Committee, including 8 years as chair. In addition, he has served on several consensus standards committees, including the group responsible for the ANSI/ASSE Z117 standard on confined space entry. ASSE recently spoke with Lopez about OSHA’s new confined space standard for construction. Read more...
U.S. Navy SEALs take their name from the environments they are trained to operate in: sea, air and land. Those operations are planned as much as humanly possible, but there is a saying in the military—no plan survives first contact with the enemy. So it goes in civilian life; the best-laid plans can fall apart if they are inflexible. Read more...
During ASSE’s upcoming Construction Safety Symposium, Rebecca W. Shultz, CSP, CIH, president of Apex Environmental Management Inc., will share her insights on how to identify and prevent health hazards during the planning stages of construction projects. ASSE recently spoke with Shultz about the health and environmental hazards that can present themselves during construction projects and how to address these hazards to avoid major project delays and unexpected costs. Read more...
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