Workplace safety procedures are designed to keep employees, visitors and customers safe while helping to reduce the stress associated with the work area. Company management should take the time to ...

Health and safety promotion in the workplace is vital to the functioning and overall satisfaction of staff. When employees are sick or injured and cannot work, other employees need to take on the ...

As workplace risks evolve, organizations must move beyond compliance to create adaptive, psychologically safe teams capable ...

Violence is behavior that causes harm to a person or damage to property or causes fear for one’s safety or the safety of others. Such behavior is unacceptable at Northwestern. A potentially violent ...

As residents of the Gulf Coast and Texas assess the damage of Hurricane Harvey (and another storm approaches Florida), Americans are reminded how easily a situation can escalate to a life-threatening ...

High-voltage line work is risky business, with hazards associated with most of the tasks performed on routine or emergency jobs. Electrical workers must adhere to volumes of regulations, policies, ...

In every workplace, whether it's an office setting or a construction site, the concept of risk tolerance plays a crucial role in determining the overall health and safety standards. Risk tolerance ...

A comprehensive plan that the University has developed and implemented to prevent workplace violence. The plan includes procedures for reporting, investigating, and responding to incidents of ...

Although verbal threats were the most common kind of workplace abuse reported by survey respondents, 34% of the ED healthcare workers also reported physical assaults by patients. Violence toward ...

Bram Alster was wearing a hazmat suit while at work Thursday morning. Except he wasn’t testing people for the coronavirus, or even working in a hospital. He was performing an emergency dental ...

When severe weather requires changes to Miami's normal schedule, there are three ways to access and/or receive emergency weather closing information: “open,” “open with on-campus, in-person classes ...