DID YOU KNOW?

A new survey of safety professionals has found a high incidence of employee noncompliance with corporate and federal mandates to wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE). In fact, nearly all of the safety professionals in a survey released Aug. 12 said that workers in their organizations had at some point failed to wear the necessary safety equipment while on the job. Ninety-eight percent of respondents who attended the recent American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) conference in Baltimore answered “yes” when asked if they had observed workers not wearing safety equipment when they should have been, according to the […]