A Louisville, Colorado, psychiatric treatment hospital failed to protect employees from workplace violence, OSHA alleged.

On the third day of the annual conference of the American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP), speaker Peter Susca urged his audience to take a different approach to managing their organizations’ occupational safety and health (OSH) programs by aligning with the company’s mission to facilitate good-for-business safety solutions.

At Safety 2019, the annual conference of the American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP), Yeu-Li Yeung, the patient care ergonomics coordinator for Duke University Health System, and Neal Wiggermann, PhD, a specialist research scientist focusing on human factors and ergonomics for Hill-Rom, presented a session describing the benefits of implementing a Safe Patient Handling and Mobility (SPHM) program to reduce healthcare worker injuries and improve patient care.

Does your warehouse facility have an adequate fire prevention and preparedness strategy?

If OSHA knocked on your door, how would you respond? Would you throw open the doors to your facility and give the inspector free reign, or would you demand that the inspector obtain a warrant before entering? That was the subject of a presentation at Safety 2019, the annual conference of the American Society of Safety Professionals, taking place from June 9–12 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans.