February 2012
Pick 6 – Workplace stress takes a toll on mental health
Picture This – Say a prayer for these unsafe workers
Career Booster – Guard against playing favorites at work
Read MoreFebruary 2012
Pick 6 – Workplace stress takes a toll on mental health
Picture This – Say a prayer for these unsafe workers
Career Booster – Guard against playing favorites at work
Read MoreMentally Injurious Workplaces Becoming Increasingly Common: Part 2
Editor’s note: This is the second story in a two-part series on psychological safety in the workplace. It will provide supervisors and managers with some guidance on how to combat it.
Meet Phil, the president of a mid-sized company that has a huge safety problem. Phil would scoff at the suggestion that there’s any sort of problem with safety and he’d proudly produce his company’s OSHA records as evidence.
Read MoreOSHA Sues Company for Violating Whistleblower Protection Law
OSHA has sued Whole Foods Market Group Inc., demanding the reinstatement of a former worker with full back wages and benefits, after the employee was fired for expressing workplace health concerns regarding a raw sewage spill at a Miami Beach, FL, store.
On Nov. 2, 2009, a worker told a supervisor that a sewer line that had ruptured a day earlier was still spilling waste into the workplace, including a specialty cheese department and restrooms.
Read MoreMushroom Farm Owners Fined $350,000
A Langley, BC, mushroom composing company, along with a second company and three owners, have been fined $350,000 in connection with three workers’ deaths and the severe brain injuries of two others in September 2008.
Workers Ut Tran, Han Pham and Jimmy Chan died after inhaling toxic hydrogen sulfide and ammonia gas, while Michael Phan and Thang Tchen suffered severe brain damage from which they will not likely recover.
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