By Dave Johnson, Phylmar newsletter editor
The new environmental health and safety (EHS) think tank, the What Works Institute, and the Phylmar Group® have formed a founding partnership creating a new research-to-practice think tank and learning community. The partnership with the Phylmar Group will focus on emerging and critical issues such as modernizing EHS metrics, …
Dave Johnson, Phylmar newsletter editor
2023 was historic in the number of costly disasters and weather extremes throughout much of the United States, according to the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI).
There were 28 weather and climate disasters in 2023, costing at least $92.9 billion. A weather or climate disaster is defined as …
On November 2, 2021, the EPA announced a proposed rule aimed at reducing methane emissions from oil and gas sources. The proposed rule is part of the Biden Administration’s U.S. Methane Emissions Reduction Action Plan, which was simultaneously unveiled by the EPA …
The wide-ranging package of Democratic social spending priorities that passed the House in November and is pending in the Senate would increase the maximum penalty to $70,000 for a serious workplace violation and to $700,000 for a willful or repeated violation. The current top fines for those …
California considers ranking heat waves after investigation of extreme heat deaths |
| California could become the first state in the nation to adopt a ranking system for heat waves, much the way meteorologists categorize hurricanes. Legislation announced by state Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara would create a system to warn communities of potentially deadly heat and encourage |
OSHA’s vaccine mandate could be headed to the Supreme Court
The fight over the judicial stay of OSHA’s Covid-19 shot-or-test rule, which the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued Nov. 6, could be “the whole ballgame, from a practical standpoint,” said Sean Marotta, an appellate attorney at Hogan Lovells. He …
By Dave Johnson, Phylmar Group newsletter editor
Not one person on an expert panel of six global safety and health professionals could come up with an example of a company that made a significant positive pivot in safety and health performance based on a leading indicator, according to a July, 2021, article in Industrial Health …
By Dave Johnson, Phylmar newsletter editor
Planning for 2022? For many workplaces, preventing heat illness will be top of mind. Scorching heat waves and wildfires of 2021 are one reason. Media coverage of heat-related work injuries and deaths is another, particularly warehouse conditions. The weight of the White House is another. On September 20…
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