Workplace hazards persist as a persistent threat to companies, employee well-being and financial stability. To address this, safety managers can harness the transformative power of AI to mitigate ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. author of Chained to the Desk in a Hybrid World: A Guide to Balance. As millions of American workers return to their work desks ...

Encouraging employees to apply workplace safety habits at home protects their families, reduces off-the-job injuries, and strengthens the overall safety culture. In many workplaces, safety is a top ...

Workplace safety should be top of mind for organizations that want to keep their employees safe, especially as organizations put measures in place to prevent Covid-19 spread as they reopen their ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Workers in fresh food manufacturing plants have been getting injured at a high rate in Illinois. The problem is so serious that the federal Occupational Safety and Health ...

Over the past crazy year, organizations have learned many important lessons—some, the hard way. From these many lessons that we are still experiencing, managers and supervisors have seen how ongoing, ...

In a new whitepaper, Improving Workplace Safety with Robotics, the National Safety Council, through its Work to Zero initiative, evaluated the benefits of robotics and autonomous mobile robots, or ...

Every year, nearly 3 million people die due to exposure to common risk factors in the workplace. Work-related diseases were responsible for 81 per cent of all work-related deaths in 2016, with an ...

Today, many people are familiar with the concept of psychological safety, a concept first coined in 1999 by HBS professor Amy Edmondson, and something core to being an effective leader. Her definition ...

According to the survey, the transport sector recorded the highest number of deaths, with 385 fatalities, followed by the service sector (which includes workshops and gas and electricity supply ...

Dr Mike Esbester received funding from the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health for the research project 'The Changing Legitimacy of Health and Safety at Work, 1960-2015'. On 1 June 1974, a ...

Garment employees work in a sewing section of the Snowtex Outerwear Ltd. factory in Savar, Bangladesh, on Aug. 9, 2021. Almost a decade ago, the fatal fire at Tazreen Fashions and, just five months ...