All Things Safety

Alex Hogan, the Global Product Line Manager for Keen Utility, a family-owned hybrid footwear company, discusses the latest trends in safety footwear. She also talks about her job working with product and the changes she's seen in recent years to fit workers' needs.

Lars Wismer, director of A+A, International Trade Fair for Safety, Security and Health at Work, talks to us about the world’s leading trade show for the occupational health and safety industry and what makes it stand apart from other events. 

Gavin Coyle, CEO and founder of The Coyle Group, a safety consultancy, discusses issues currently facing safety professionals, including budget cuts. He has more than 25 years of experience in the safety field, and is the author of ''Workplace Safety on a Budget,” which is aimed at anyone with an interest in health and safety.

We navigate the ethical minefield of industrial hygiene with The Phylmar Group’s Mark Katchen. This episode focuses on the impact of ChatGPT on the EHS profession and also discusses an interesting ethics case study.

In this podcast episode, safety professional Heather Chapman, MS, CSP, CHMM, CEAS, shares her thoughts on the current state of the safety industry and where she thinks it is heading this year. 

Chris Moore of GPRS talks about utility safety. He has worked in the utility locating and concrete scanning industry for more than 16 years. In this episode, he discusses the importance of scanning and why ground penetrating radar is beneficial in locating subsurface utilities, as well as worker safety and injury prevention.

ISHN’s Benita Mehta sits down with Stephanie Poirier, Continuing Education Business Development Manager, to discuss the Industrial Safety and Hygiene Continuing Education Center. Find out what this educational resource has to offer you and/or your employees, and learn how to earn free CEUs. Visit the CE Center at ce.ishn.com.

Worker exposure to toxins in ambient air and related regulations are an increasing concern for industry.  Applications expert, Kelly McPartland introduces a disruptive new technique – OE-FTIR – that combines the advantages of FTIR with detection limits down to low-ppb or even ppt! Sponsored by: Thermo Fisher Scientific

Learn how to protect your employees from respiratory hazards while helping keep them comfortable and safe. We’ll cover requirements for a written respiratory program, myths and misconceptions, and new industry trends and regulations. Sponsored by Honeywell

Lora Cavuoto, Ph. D., CPE, has been named ASSP’s 2022 William E. Tarrants Outstanding Safety Educator. She is an associate professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) at the University at Buffalo in New York, and has been the director of the university’s occupational health and safety training program since 2017.ISHN speaks to Lora about wearable technology, ergonomics,...

A conversation with an expert on safeguarding codes for machinery, Matt Brenner. Matt is Vice President and General Manager at Rockford Systems. During our dialogue, he sheds light on some current, common safeguarding and safety compliance problems in the industry.

We connect with Joe Boyle, CEO of TRUCE Software, to interview him about data published in February 2022 in "The Connected Workforce: What Workers Want to See More of (and Less of) in 2022". The Connected Workforce study conducted by TRUCE Software says enforcing work/life balance is the key to attracting, retaining, and empowering employees. 

ISN released a whitepaper recently on serious injuries and fatalities using data from 2018 to 2020 in addition to nearly 10,000 recordable incidents from OSHA 300 Logs from 2020. The findings included in the 2021 SIFs Insights report aim to help organizations identify trends in recorded incidents and provide actions that they can take to mitigate future SIFs. ISHN talks to Joe Schloesser, Senior D...

In this podcast, Taylor Morgan discusses the issues that come with poor indoor air quality as well as the filtration options that manufacturing and processing facilities have to improve it. Podcast covers symptoms if IAQ, health issues, safety issues, processes that generate PM1 particles, regulations governing indoor air, and air filtration. Sponsored by Camfil Air Pollution Control

Bradley D. Giles, P.E., CSP, STS, FASSP, GIOSH, is principal of Bradley Giles and Associates. He has more than 40 years of experience in the safety, health, environmental and security disciplines, and is Society president in 2021-22. He offers his insights on what it takes to be a safety professional, among a variety of other topics.

Listen to hear experts from Westex: A Milliken Brand and Performance Solutions by Milliken, Scott Francis and Dan Flynn, join the podcast to discuss how to achieve world-class safety and FR/AR PPE best practices for lone workers.

In 2006, Ed Foulke was nominated by U.S. President George W. Bush to head the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and assumed the position until November 2008. He’s currently a partner at Fisher & Phillips in Atlanta, Georgia. In this ISHN exclusive interview, he discusses COVID response plans, the current state of OSHA and what employers may face in the near future.

Dave Johnson talks with Rich Fairfax, who worked for OSHA, both in the national office and in various field offices, from 1977 to 2013 in various roles including Deputy Director for the Directorate of Enforcement Programs and Senior Industrial Hygienist for the Office of Health Enforcement. He currently works part time as a consultant for ORC HSE. In this podcast, the longtime safety professional...

ISHN’s Dave Johnson interviews Mark Katchen, Managing Principal of The Phylmar Group — an organization that manages three business consortia in the EHS/sustainability area. Mark shares his insights on ESG, environmental, social and government practices related to business.

Join us as we explore how digitally transforming your business, health and safety programs can help sustain your momentum and help translate it into real, measurable safety performance improvement. Sponsored by Cority

ISHN interviews ASSP President-Elect Deb Roy in this episode of Dave Johnson’s Wide World of Safety. Deb talks about her EHS career arc; acquiring business savvy; the unique culture of LL Bean, where Deb was Corporate Director of Health, Safety and Wellness; the importance of Total Worker Health; and her priorities for ASSP in her year at the helm.

Gas detection safety has evolved over the years as the market has matured with technological innovations. Connected, more durable and faster responding equipment along with Industry 4.0 is providing both awareness and data on safety conditions for workers. Sponsored by MSA the Safety Company

ISHN Editor Dave Johnson and SafeStart founder Larry Wilson chat about preventing human error, misconceptions in safety, and Larry’s new book, Defenseless Moments.

Q&A with Tingley Rubber's Senior Product Manager, Robert Petersen, on footwear protection innovations. Sponsored by Tingley Rubber

A review of climbing style helmets and their place in general industry as well as a review of featured products you may have seen at the National Safety Congress. Sponsored by MSA the Safety Company