All Things Safety

The Trump Administration has said the Chemical Safety Board will be shut down at the end of this year. Kristi Hames, a chemical safety expert at Velocity EHS, breaks down what that might mean and the impact it will have on workplace safety.

Tom Goodmanson, EcoOnline's CEO, talks about predictive safety and technological advancements in the industry Learn what's new and what to expect when it comes to safety tech. 

Two former OSHA officials discuss how the agency will operate in the second Trump administration. Both have years of frontline experience watching the political pendulum swing, creating the climate for OSHA leadership, policies, enforcement and standards-setting. Jim Frederick was Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health during the Biden years, and Jordan Barab spent...

Chris Nickels, an expert on workplace safety and OSHA matters, talks about why OSHA isn’t going anywhere, what we might and might not expect, how employers should deal with possible changes and why some things won’t change. Nickels is partner at Quarles & Brady and helps employers understand and navigate the technical and sometimes nuanced confines of labor and employment law and litigation.

Dan Hobbs, CEO of ProtexAI, a startup that uses artificial intelligence to monitor worker safety at warehouses, talks about how AI applications have changed, how gathering predictive data can improve worksite safety and what that means for safety professionals.

Heather Chapman wrote an article for ISHN recently called Navigating Workplace Safety in the Wake of a Republican Administration. She has over 20 years’ experience in the safety industry and is giving us some deeper insights into what we can expect now that President Trump is in office regarding OSHA and safety regulations. Heather is principal at safety consulting company Paradigm Safety.

In this podcast, we talk with the co-founders of The What Works Institute, a new research-to-practice think tank and learning community in partnership with the Phylmar Group®. John Dony, CEO, and Michelle Garner-Janna, chief experience officer, discuss the research and tools available and how EHS pros can grow professionally.

In this discussion with AIHA President Nicole Greeson, MS, CIH, Occupational Hygiene and Safety Division Director at Duke University Health System, we talk about the state of industrial hygienists today and how the career has evolved over the years. Greeson also brings up job consolidation, consultancy work and exciting avenues for growth in the industry.

Emily Soloby, founder and CEO of Juno Jones, a women’s industrial footwear brand, talks to us about giving women working in hazardous environments a better shoe option, both in terms of fit and style, and why this is so important to her. She discusses the challenges women face in male-dominated industries as well goals for her brand.

Discover how safety management tech has helped reduce incidents and improved compliance, and learn about the challenges of integrating new tech in this interview with Taylor Thorn, Senior Director of Product at KPA. Thorn has worked hand-in-hand with contractors across the country to digitize their safety programs.

Doug Backinger, Senior VP at Caster Concepts, talks to ISHN about the materials handling industry shifting to automated processes and what that means for the industry’s future.

How did a company achieve 12 straight years without a work-related injury or illness? Our friends at Assembly Magazine interviewed Carter Roth, plant manager at the Trane Technologies HVAC equipment assembly plant in Fort Smith, Arkansas to find out. The factory is on track to reach 6 million hours without a lost-time safety incident by October 2025. 

What is it like to be a senior EHS officer at the remote Los Alamos National Laboratory in the New Mexico desert? Los Alamos is home of the atomic bomb and the Oscar-winning film, Oppenheimer. In this episode, we find out.

Shawn Galloway is CEO of ProAct Safety, and an author of several books. In this episode, Shawn talks about the six relationships that are vital to foster at work for safety excellence. He has helped hundreds of organizations within various industries to improve safety strategy, culture, leadership and engagement.

In this episode, Vi Kellersohn, chief marketing officer of Oberon Technologies, discusses what virtual reality can do for workplace training, how it could improve employee engagement and increase compliance.

Clare Epstein of Vector Solutions discusses the importance of planning for extreme weather and the steps employers can take to train their workers before the summer heat comes out in full force.

In this episode of ISHN’s podcast, we talk to Kyle Hubregtse, CEO of wearable tech company Kenzen, about the most dangerous jobs and how standards have evolved and will change to protect these workers.

Fall protection specialist Andrew Scott talks about facility safety and under-the-radar hazards that can be corrected to reduce workplace injuries.

Duane Duhamel, HSE Director at ISN, talks about serious injuries and fatalities (SIF) data in their most recent report. The data covers 2017-2021. We discuss why the SIF rate saw a sharp decline in 2021 as well as what the leading cause of SIFs has been over the past five years.

Dr. Geller discusses the uses and misuses of behavior-based safety and why the psychology of safety is more important today than ever.

In this episode, editor Benita Mehta talks to two experts with Honeywell, Manas Dutta and Mukesh Kumar, about connected worker technology and intelligent wearables and how they are being used to improve operations and increase efficiency.

Ethics and safety professionals: What makes for professional competency; and how do you communicate the potential consequences if professional decisions or judgments are overruled or disregarded? A conversation with Mark Katchen, CIH, and Alan Leibowitz, CIH and CSP

With heat stress risk at the forefront of the wide world of safety this summer, we talk to athletic trainer Dr. David Berry, who teaches university courses related to injury assessments and emergency response management.

The controversial subject of employee surveillance and monitoring using modern technology is discussed by Dave Roskelley of R&R Consulting and Mark Katchen, managing principal of The Phylmar Group.

Dr. Brian Taylor, Doctor of Audiology, talks about some of the health issues related to occupational hearing loss and offers his advice on how to prevent loss and reduce risk when working in industrial settings.