Anything that presents a potential threat to employees, whether physical or psychological, can be classified as a workplace hazard. Small businesses have a responsibility to reduce or eliminate ...

Biological workplace hazards are not limited to professions where you might expect this kind of issue, such as companies with laboratories or factory settings. Biological hazards can be found in a law ...

According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, there are dozens of hazardous chemicals that many companies store in the facilities that they operate. Some, like chlorine and nitric ...

Each year, several hundred workers are killed as a result of inadvertent contact with energized conductors. Surprisingly, over half of those killed are not in traditionally electrical fields (i.e., ...

Inequality and poverty have taken center stage in American politics in the years since the recession. Fast food workers have raised the profile of low-wage work, cities and states around the country ...

Seyfarth Synopsis: The growth of the gig economy has transformed the modern workforce and upended traditional models for developing a workplace safety culture and worker safety training. New and ...

In your workplace, you probably use many different chemicals in the form of solvents, paints, varnishes, and lubricants. The workplace itself contains additional chemicals, including those used by ...

The workplace can be a pretty hazardous place to be. The Health and Safety Executive says that accident rates have fallen over the years as we become more safety conscious but its most recent ...

When I was a kid, I used to think that the U.S. Surgeon General was a doctor who treated all the senior officers in the U.S. Armed Forces. As I got a little older, and I figured out there was no ...

We hear a lot about patient safety, and rightly so. We've all read the statistics that as many as 100,000 Americans die each year from preventable medical errors. What doesn't get as much attention is ...