Are You Taking Advantage of Industry Safety and HR Education Efforts?
We actively support industry and trade association safety and HR efforts. Please send us information on Safety and HR events, and when we can do so, we will publicize your efforts. Here are some recent...
View ArticleNuggets on Talent Management and Engagement from TLNT’s High Performance...
After 31 years as a labor lawyer, I don’t often feel like an amateur, but that’s how I felt listening to day one’s HR and academic presenters. We overuse the term “Thought Leaders,” but the expression...
View ArticleThe Role of Risk Taking and Learning From Failure
I wince whenever I see motivational posters with an eagle soaring over a mountain and a stirring phrase. That’s not me. Cute phrases and motivational posters have limited effect on a guy who has...
View ArticleAre Sleepless and Fatigued Professionals Going to Cost You?
Big law firms, accounting houses and especially hospitals have long prided themselves on requiring young professionals to work extraordinary hours, and perversely, young professionals wear their sleep...
View ArticlePart 2 - Employers Must Deal With Sleep Deprived Workers
Most people acknowledge that they are not getting enough sleep and that this lack of sleep affects everything from their work to their marital life. Groups such as the National Sleep Foundation...
View ArticleREAD THE FINE PRINT: Why some employers are unknowingly subject to the new...
The Administration’s seemingly endless Executive Orders are requiring employers to respond to numerous new requirements affecting safety, wages and EEO matters. Because the same company managers may...
View Article“I Ain’t Your Momma.”
I thoroughly enjoyed my seven years as a Scoutmaster in an inner city housing project. The boys were poor and few of them had a dad at home, but they were good kids. Given decent examples,...
View ArticleTemp Providers, Non Routine Workers and Safety
I write a fair amount about employers’ duties to ensure that their workers classified as “temporary employees” be treated the same with regard to safety as their full time or so-called “permanent”...
View ArticleWhy Do Workplace Amputations and Similar Injuries Continue to Occur?
Every week we see reports of amputations and deaths or OSHA Press Releases about big dollar penalties relating to guarding, lock-out and training. Should we conclude that many employers don’t care or...
View ArticleThe Quirks of Mid-Atlantic State OSHA Programs- Virginia
Virginia prides itself on being a business friendly state, and its state OSHA plan is no exception. The Virginia Occupational Safety and Health compliance program (“VOSH”) should be commended for...
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Crucial Takeaways from AGC’s National Safety Committee Meeting Last Week in...
First, hats off to our hosts, Master Builders of Western Pennsylvania, who took the attendees to a Pirates-Padres game and better introduced us to the vibrant city of Pittsburgh. The content of the...
View ArticleHeads up Texans … OSHA is Gunning for You
I don’t believe in coincidences, so when in the same day, I see pronouncements from OSHA, EHS-Today and BNA about why Texas is experiencing “so many” fatalities, I assume that Fed-OSHA is sighting on...
View ArticleYIKES! New Laws and Decisions Require Reviewing Your Handbook.
Ted Boehm and I spoke to the July 23 Human Resources Management Association of the Gwinnett County Chamber, one of the best run chambers in the Country, on July 23 about the urgent need to revise...
View ArticleDoes The Ratio Of CEO To Employee Pay Matter?
The SEC recently voted to require employers to disclose the pay gap between the CEO and his or her employees. Unions, investors, and other groups have increasingly been using this disparity to attack...
View ArticleYou Really Need to be Keeping Up With Developments With the NFPA Combustible...
My friend and outstanding combustible dust (and more) expert Tim Myers of Exponent shared the following:NFPA 652: The Latest on the New Combustible Dust StandardThe National Fire Protection...
View ArticleThe Quirks of Mid-Atlantic State OSHA Plans: North Carolina
While a “State-OSHA Plan” must at least meet Fed-OSHA standards, these plans often develop their own additional requirements and have widely varying enforcement and appeal processes. When Federal OSHA...
View ArticleOSHA Updates National Emphasis Program on Amputations
On August 13, 2015, OSHA announced its updated National Emphasis Program (NEP) for Amputations will now include all industries that contain machinery or equipment which may cause amputations. Under the...
View ArticleDoes a Workplace Have To Be Perfect?
I recently blogged about the debate on CEO and employee pay ratios. I urged employers to seize the high ground and decide what their attitude is as to their “responsibility” is to their employees....
View ArticleMust Poultry Employers Comply with Terms of Letter from Heads of USDA and OSHA?
OSHA recently reminded the Poultry Industry that it has not lost interest in a multiple front attack on processors, as shown by the almost $1,000,000 in citations issued against a Midwestern processor....
View ArticleNew OSHA Directive to Assist in Early Resolution of Whistleblower Complaints
On August 19, 2015, OSHA issued new policies and procedures (Compliance Directive: CPL 02-03-006) for applying a new process for resolving whistleblower disputes. This directive is OSHA’s attempt to...
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