A Hazard is anything that has the potential to cause harm, injuries, accidents or other undesirable effects. A Risk is the possibility that a personal injury, property loss or environmental harm will ...

This article appears in Security On The Internet, an in-depth report on cyberthreats and how executives can stop them. Chief information officers should explore, if not embrace, a broad-spectrum ...

How safety and health professionals can scope out the big picture of workplace hazards and assess their risks through Visual Literacy practices. Here’s a hypothetical scenario: You are a safety and ...

Everyone in the industry who deals with fall protection on a regular basis most likely knows what a guardrail is, what lanyards do and just how much protection a harness provides. Yet, can anyone ...

On its website, OSHA emphasizes the need to identify “foreseeable emergency scenarios and non-routine tasks, taking into account the types of materials and equipment in use and the location within the ...

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration today released a new interactive training tool to help small businesses effectively identify hazards in the workplace. Employers and workers can ...

Dear Abby: After reading the letter in your column about older persons who live alone ”falling,” I had to write. Since approximately one-third of the elderly fall annually, it is a common problem. The ...

The city will expand a pilot project to identify road hazards, using artificial intelligence. Cameras with the technology, ...