Often when people think of learning objectives for a course, they think, “what is the course going to teach?” That is the exact opposite of what a learning objective should be.
A learning objective should describe what the trainee is expected to learn or to be able to do as a result of the training.…
By: Dave Johnson
ACT is an organizational EHS assessment tool developed by Mark Katchen, managing principal of the Phylmar Group, that EHS professionals can used as part of the interview process when seeking employment or when comparing the programmatic commitment of different organizations. ACT evaluates how three critical EHS issues are handled – or not …
By Dave Johnson, Phylmar Newsletter Editor
A 30-year UPS warehouse worker in California suffered heatstroke on the job and was taken by ambulance to a hospital. “You go into these warehouses and there’s zero to no air flow, very stifling heat,” he told a reporter.
A longtime McDonald’s worker in California said workers at her …
A safety trainer received a head’s up that there were fake certificates going around, so now they’re putting in more money and information into authenticating what they give out following the completion of their training program. It’s wild, but us at the Phylmar Group are aware of this and want you to be as well.…
In this second installment of Phylmar Shorts, Mark quickly addresses the connection between psychosocial risk factors at work and cardiovascular diseases. Here is the paper that Mark refers to in this Short: https://osha.europa.eu/en/publications/links-between-exposure-work-related-psychosocial-risk-factors-and-cardiovascular-disease Thanks for tuning in, and contact info@phylmar.com to inquire about joining the Phylmar Group.…
The Phylmar Group’s Mark Katchen is introducing Phylmar Shorts, which are 1-minute weekly video segments highlighting a current trend, event, issue, or regulation affecting the EH&S and IH worlds. In this week’s Short, Mark talks about the pandemic and refers to this article: https://www.fisherphillips.com/news-i… Thanks for watching and please let us know if there’s …
The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (FedOSHA) is moving forward with its 2023 Regulatory Agenda and initiatives. The Agency continues to release information and details that outline its alignment with the Biden Administration’s goals and priorities.
Regulatory Agenda
Heat Illness Prevention continues to be a focus for the Agency and Administration. In addition, Workplace …
Now that Cal/OSHA and the Board have moved on from the two-year COVID-19 regulation, the focus is now on the development of an Infectious Disease rule for General Industry. Stakeholders were surprised to hear at the November 2022 Board meeting that the Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) has already developed a draft which …
By: Dave Johnson, Phylmar newsletter editor
Many of you are likely among the more than 30 million users of the global phenomenon ChatGPT (which gets roughly five million visits a day), an artificial intelligence chatbot released free to the public last November 30 by the small San Francisco AI company OpenAI. Try it out at …
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