The committee provides a forum for discussion of scientific and technical issues relevant to the development, certification, deployment, and use of personal protective equipment, standards, and ...

Safety committees help businesses define workplace hazards and assist in creating safety procedures and policies to protect staff from injury or death.

The US Occupational Safety and Health Administration plans to narrow the use of its general duty clause when enforcing ...

Workplace safety isn’t just for high-risk industries. Discover how any business can improve safety, reduce costs, and boost ...

The state supports over 13,000 certified workplace safety committees, safeguarding more than 1.6 million workers and resulting in over $920 million in savings on workers’ compensation premiums.

These committees can perform area inspections, develop safe work practices and procedures, and host activities that enhance the department safety program. Each department determines membership.

Chris Hallock, deputy secretary of Safety and Management Relations, PA Department of Labor, offers his agency’s perspectives on the issue of psychological abuse in the workplace to members of ...

A new study says companies with more women on their boards—and men who listen to what they say—are better at keeping their employees safe from workplace accidents.

Six other states are considering proposed hospital workplace violence prevention legislation, including Alaska, Massachusetts, Ohio, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming.

Kentucky would weaken its workplace safety protections to make the state more “business friendly” under a bill backed by the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce that’s advancing to the House floor ...

A workplace safety committee has been engaged through the process to prioritize the updates. Much of the work on the emergency response programs is ongoing, Pedisich said.

To register for this August 1st, 2024 meeting of the Standing Committee on Personal Protective Equipment for Workplace Safety and Health, please email Autumn Downey at [email protected].