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Adams Hudson: The value of publicity

Working with the media can help boost your company image.




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Adams Hudson: The problem with 'thermometer marketing'

Are you being proactive about your marketing plan?




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Adams Hudson: 3 marketing mistakes to avoid

Not every ad is for leads, and your message is more important than you think.




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Adams Hudson: How to get and convert more leads

You’ve already paid for the lead, so why not extract its full value?




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Adams Hudson: How not to choose a contractor

Selling — even upselling — is a service, and let no one tell you differently.




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Adams Hudson: Why plumbing businesses go under

All three of these elements must be in place for a business to survive.




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Adams Hudson: The biggest business lie

Sometimes, love isn’t all you need.




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Adams Hudson: How much experience is too much?

Don’t let experience turn into complacency and a lack of differentiation.




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Adams Hudson: Marketing secrets from online giants

Contractors are poised to use marketing method previously reserved for billionaires.




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Adams Hudson: Popular isn’t always profitable

Why we do what we do” is why I do what I do. My job is to “change behavior.




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Adams Hudson: When sales meets marketing

Sales and marketing aren’t the same thing, but they can be powerful when combined.




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Dan Holohan: So easy to blame the boiler

A homeowner posted a question on The Wall at HeatingHelp.com about a drumroll sound that was coming from his brand-new steam boiler. What could it be? He included a video so all could hear, and sure enough, it sounded like a snare drum.




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Dan Holohan: Why it’s so hard to find workers

My shop teacher was a wiry man who loved hand tools. We spent a week making a buzzer base. He taught us how to saw, sand and varnish. He introduced me to a Brace & Bit hand drill and went on and on about how this was better than an electric drill. “Can you feel the wood? It’s alive!” he said, and I could.




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Lessons learned cataloging old pumps in the Catskills

I spotted a story in the newspaper last year that made me smile with a memory that was bittersweet. 




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The impact of ergonomics on musculoskeletal disorders and productivity

Ergonomics principles can guide employers towards systems that adapt to workers’ needs and decrease the potential for discomfort and harm.




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Advisory committee unanimously recommends OSHA advance proposed heat safety rule

As part of the rulemaking process, the agency will seek and consider input from a ride range of stakeholders and the public at-large as it works to propose and finalize its rule.




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NIOSH offers free heat-stress prevention resources for employers and mine workers

Mine workers are experiencing an increase in dangerous health effects from heat exposure as surface temperatures get hotter and underground mines get deeper.




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Donaldson introduces Dalamatic® G2 dust collector

Engineered to work with materials that create sticky or agglomerative dust, the evolutionary Dalamatic G2 dust collector includes patented Dura-Life bag filters. 




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Columbus-Southerly WWTP Case Study- May 2017

It’s a fact of life in every industrial facility: Heavy machinery and a cavernous room are a bad combination. The noise generated in such an environment quickly becomes intolerable, not to mention dangerous for those working there.




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Wearable Mobile Solutions to Improve EHS & Performance Management

In 2016, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) empowered miners with a new wearable device according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. NIOSH researchers have documented that a continual personal dust monitor has created a 90% decrease in dangerous levels of dust for miners reducing pneumoconiosis (black lung).




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How a Texas manufacturing facility solved a tricky situation and increased productivity

A manufacturing plant has been dealing with hot machinery and punishing Texas heat. The buildings are made of tin with little insulation. That means it gets really hot. They solved this issue with evaporative coolers.




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A+A 2021 draws to a successful close as safety and health at work continue to move into focus of politics and society

A+A 2021 – the leading International Trade Fair for Safety, Security and Health at Work – drew to a successful close after four days: 1,204 exhibitors from 56 nations and more than 25,000 trade visitors traveled to Düsseldorf, Germany to attend the sector’s most relevant trade fair.




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Free resources available to help address substance use in the trades

The Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) has launched a suite of free resources.




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OSHA Safe + Sound Week: Why it matters and how to get involved

The central theme of Safe + Sound Week is to promote the implementation and enhancement of safety and health programs in workplaces. 




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When should you replace your personal protective equipment?

On dangerous or risky job sites, and within certain environments, personal protective equipment (PPE) must be worn at all times. It makes perfect sense, because the gear is designed specifically to mitigate severe or fatal accidents. Helmets, for example, protect the head from falling objects, overhead fixtures, and much more.




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Safety lessons from California warehouse fires

California has had its fair share of fires over the years, especially the wild variety. This year’s wildfires have already burned more than 1 million acres, and nearly a dozen are still ablaze.  Now, the Golden State is facing an uptick in warehouse fires in some of its biggest and most populated cities, including Oakland, Carson and El Sereno.




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ASSE’s Hudson honored by international OSH organization

American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) Executive Director Dennis Hudson has been honored with the President’s Distinguished Service Award by the U.K.-based Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH). The presentation occurred in November at the IOSH annual conference in Birmingham, England. The award honors the work and achievements of individuals who have made significant contributions to IOSH or the occupational safety and health profession for several years.




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Vector Solutions launches feature to enable just-in-time training for critical industries

The newest addition to Vector Solutions' LMS offers seamless learning experiences for faster, more efficient skill development as well as increased knowledge retention and engagement.




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SoterGenius, AI for industrial companies, launches to prevent compliance and safety violations

SoterGenius uses image and video analysis, chat functionality and document analysis to automate compliance checks against OSHA guidelines.




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Magid softside safety goggles

A soft construction goggle for a comfortable fit. 




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CO2Meter launches new industrial gas detectors featuring up to 128 sensor capabilities

The industrial gas detection series is modularly designed for easy integration and custom configurability.




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Nelson-Jameson moves sustainability goals forward with new ESG targets

 The organization has set targets for its Environmental, Sustainability, and Governance (ESG) framework, and measures progress on a comprehensive, cross-category internal scorecard. 




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Stefan Brück designated chairman of A+A advisory board

The advisory board of A+A, the leading international trade fair with congress for safety, security and health at work, will soon be under new leadership. 




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J. J. Keller & Associates, Inc. marks 70 years in business

The Wisconsin company's safety & regulatory compliance solutions have expanded through three generations of leadership.




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Hy-Brid Lifts announces director of sales for Southeast United States




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Ensuring safety for solo workers with technology

In today’s dynamic work environments, an increasing number of employees find themselves working alone.




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Endress+Hauser radar sensors

Sensors provide solutions across industries and applications.




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Honeywell and Chevron collaborate on AI-assisted solutions for refining processes

Collaboration aims to enhance refining operations and workforce with advanced AI-Assisted technologies, including a new generation of alarm management solutions.




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Shutdown season: Essential maintenance for fall turnarounds and outages

In today’s dynamic work environments, an increasing number of employees find themselves working alone.




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Construction supervisor pleads guilty to obstructing investigation into workplace death

One of New York man's employees died after a fall from an improperly secured roof.




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ISO 45001 safety and health management system standard

Experts say 45001 is not easy to apprehend when read as a normal book, especially if you are not familiar with the ISO framework of 9001 and 18001. You have to realize the interconnections between specific clauses. Experts advise finding a good training course to help realize the standard’s full potential. You may also want to consider employing consultancy services to assist.




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Use ISO 45001 to improve safety & process efficiency

Released as the new safety and health standard in early 2018, ISO 45001 has a range of EHS benefits. But how do companies become ISO 45001 certified? Introduced in March 2018, ISO 45001 replaced OHSAS 18001 to become the new international ISO standard for Occupational Health & Safety Management Systems.




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So why is the economy booming?

No doubt the U.S. economy is in a boom, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. The Conference Board reports the highest levels of job satisfaction in more than a decade. The ratio between the unemployment level and the number of job vacancies is at its lowest level in a half-century




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Mesothelioma linked to asbestos in talcum powder

Thirty-three cases of the asbestos-related lung cancer mesothelioma draw attention to talcum powder as a non-occupational source of exposure to asbestos, according to a study in the January Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. "Our findings strongly suggest that asbestos exposure through asbestos-contaminated cosmetic talc explains cases once deemed idiopathic or 'spontaneous,'" according to the report.




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Sitting more is associated with higher heart disease risk in older women

Longer sitting times were associated with higher levels of heart disease risk among overweight and obese post-menopausal women overall, according to new research published today in the Journal of the American Heart Association, the open access journal of the American Heart Association.




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Acoustic panels reduce the roar at a solids dewatering plant

The Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority in Albuquerque, New Mexico operates a 76-million gallons per day (rated capacity) wastewater treatment plant that treats a daily average of five million gallons of sewage from New Mexico’s largest city and its surroundings.




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Four tips to prevent & reduce musculoskeletal disorders

No magic pills make musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) disappear, yet risk, human resources and safety departments continue to buy into programs and systems that do not affectively aid in helping employees deemed the “walking wounded.” 




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Personality tendencies impact performance

It wasn’t until recently that we started understanding that people with different personalities tend to naturally pay more attention to safety attributes like work environment, people, equipment, processes, etc. based on their personality tendencies.




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5 business lessons learned amid COVID-19

If there’s one thing the global business community has learned from the COVID-19 pandemic that continues to ebb, flow and unfold on the daily, wreaking having on bottom lines in every corner of the world in its wake, it’s the outright imperative for companies to be agile “from top to bottom.”




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Women in construction should take advantage of available resources

Women have made amazing strides in many fields and industries throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. Unfortunately, there are many others in which it remains a big challenge for a woman to rise to the top — or even, in some cases, to enter the industry at all.