The Occupational Safety and Health Administration via the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 provides work-place safety standards, all of which apply to big and small businesses throughout the ...

As compliance pressure grows, enterprises are shifting away from fragmented safety processes toward centralized digital ...

When we read reports of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty, we often can see a very obvious and deadly mistake. While we think, I would never do that, it begs the question, Why did ...

The U.S. NTSB first recommended that Safety Management Systems (SMS) be implemented by Part 121 airlines—something the FAA now requires—in 2007, then called for the same requirement for public ...

ISO 45001 and the revised ANSI/ASSP Z10 SMS Standard will help safety professionals make the case to executive leadership that integrating safety and health into existing business management systems ...

People with facility management responsibilities want to be sure they are doing the right things to ensure safety compliance while also effectively managing their other obligations. And they often ask ...

Since no two things are exactly alike, variation affects us in every aspect of our lives. Surprisingly, most American managers still don't pay much attention to variation. When they do look at it, ...

A robust system of process safety indicators might have revealed many of these management system deficiencies before the Deepwater Horizon disaster occurred, CSB investigators announced at a July 24 ...

THE FAA HAS EMBRACED the Safety Management System (SMS), which is essentially a quality management approach to controlling risk. Corporate lawyers tend to obsess about potential liabilities associated ...