According to a new study, 68% of workers globally do not feel completely safe working in their employer’s buildings.
The number is higher for those working remotely, 75%. And nearly one in four of those remote workers (23%) said they would look for a new job rather than return to a worksite that did not …
On his first day in office, President Biden sent a memorandum to the heads of executive departments and agencies to modernize the government’s regulatory review process, according to a statement released by the White House.
Stated the President: “I therefore direct the Director of OMB, in consultation with representatives of executive departments and agencies (agencies), …
The Biden administration on Inauguration Day wasted no time in naming former United Steelworkers safety official Jim Frederick as acting chief of OSHA, part of a team of interim leaders at the Labor Department who will help jump start the new administration’s labor and employment …
Evaluating Training Across Organizations and Supply Chains
By Dave Johnson, Phylmar newsletter editor
“More than ever organizations need to achieve the very best training and performance improvement possible,” states learning effectiveness experts Robert O. Brinkerhoff and Dennis Dressler.
Why? Today’s competitive environment demands a workforce that learns quickly, and consistently turns new learning into organizational, …
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has revised its guidelines for people who may have been exposed to the coronavirus. Now, instead of the standard 14-day quarantine it has been recommending, the CDC says that potential exposure warrants a quarantine of 10 or seven days, depending on one’s …
California drafting a workplace violence regulation
Three members of the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board (Board) have requested a workplace violence prevention standard for general industry for the state of California.
The latest draft, although an improvement in some ways, according to the Phylmar Regulatory Roundtable (PRR), was of significant concern because …
Sustainability is one of the most overused terms in supply chain in recent history and can mean different things to different people. However, this does not take away its importance when it comes to assessing a supply chain, according to Material Handling and Logistics magazine.
Supply chains are transitioning away from traditional transactional functions, from …
The global textile chemicals market is expected to reflect a moderate growth for the period of forecast between 2020 to 2030, supported by growing consumer awareness, according to FACT MR research.
According to the Fact MR study, the coronavirus outbreak is expected to negatively impact players …
On 8 December 2020, 28 members of the Phylmar Regulatory Roundtable (PRR)and Phylmar’s BioPharma members’ group were joined by Michael Cooper. Cooper has developed and directed Environmental, Safety, and Health programs in the semiconductor, medical device, grocery, oil and gas, pharmaceutical, and foundry industries within the U.S. and abroad. Here is a summary of his …
EPA recently released its Fall 2020 regulatory agenda, which includes several important updates to planned actions under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) concerning section 5 pre-manufacture notification (PMN) content and review procedures, section 6 risk evaluation and management for existing chemicals, CBI claim procedures, risk evaluation fees, and chemical data collection, according to …
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