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September 6, 2019

Tips for Managing Workers’ Comp to Boost Safety Performance

Do you worry about your workers’ compensation insurance premiums and the claims activities on your policy? You have anxieties about the recordable damages you must add to your injury and illness records.
September 4, 2019

Automakers to equip nearly all U.S. vehicles with systems to avoid deaths of children in hot cars

In a step toward greater safety leadership, several influential automakers announced that they have agreed to furnish nearly all U.S. vehicles with systems to caution drivers of riders in the back seat, by the model year 2025, to avoid deaths of young children left behind in hot cars accidentally.
September 2, 2019

Injuries pile up in September as students resume sports – Watertown Tab – Watertown

Football accounts for more than half of all sports-related ER hospital visits in September for subjects under the age 18. Emergency Room trips due to soccer and volleyball accidents also rise that month. Every year, the closing weeks of August intensify for Dr. Neeru Jayanthi, an Atlanta-based sports medicine physician.
September 2, 2019

How Hasbro’s Culture Contributes to Sustainability

The iconic toymaker isn’t pretending when it comes to sustainability, Hasbro’s SVP of Corporate Social Responsibility says, though to accomplish these shared goals, workers must take safety leadership training just as seriously. In truth, the world has a plastic predicament, with debris spilling from rivers into the world’s seas to the multiple forms of the sheer refuse that settle in landfills.
August 30, 2019

‘Bully’ bosses pose safety risks, study finds

Administrators who bully the workers that are underneath their supervision pose a safety culture risk, a new study decided. There was a distinct correlation between abusive management among administrators and supervisors and worsened safety performance and poor safety issues among operators, a Portland State University (PSU) researcher discovered.
August 27, 2019

How to Handle Six Common Electrical Hazards

The Electrical Safety Foundation International (ESFI) announced that there were 2,210 non-fatal electrical wounds in 2017 in a failure of safety leadership. This was an increase of 35% as matched to 2016.
August 27, 2019

Medical Soldiers recognized for excellence in safety practices

FORT HOOD — The Army’s top safety training priority is the readiness of the people and means it depends on to deploy globally in the protection of the United States of America and its partners. Aptness determines the warfighter’s capability to meet and win the nation’s battles. Readiness is crucial and units cannot manage it if day-to-day transactions aren’t handled safely, and the soldiers, civilians, tools and other resources are endangered through unsafe actions or lapses in safety leadership.
August 26, 2019

#PolyCon19: An Inside Look of This Year’s Professional Development Courses

This upcoming October, CPI will once again offer its Polyurethanes Professional Development Program (PDP) for safety leadership in conjunction with the Polyurethanes Technical Conference.
August 26, 2019

Welding course for women sparks interest in male-dominated trade

Fewer than 1 in 20 welders are women and it's time to change that. A brand new safety training welding curriculum at Algonquin College in Ottowa is intending to draw more women into what has been a traditionally male-dominated profession.