http://blog.ehstoday.com/out-loud-blog Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:55:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Great American Insurance Group is a believer about using incentives to promote employee health. This year, the Cincinnati-based company's parent, American Financial Group, held a AFGreat Health Challenge in which it promised to give away a car and other prizes if at least 70 percent of employees participated in health ... http://blog.ehstoday.com/out-loud-blog/2008/12/12/live-healthy-win-a-car/ Does OSHA need to “resurrect the process” for developing standards? Yes, says former NIOSH Director John Howard, M.D., J.D., who said in a world increasingly looking to the European Union for standards leadership, OSHA runs the risk of becoming “irrelevant.” Howard, speaking at a symposium on “The Future of ... http://blog.ehstoday.com/out-loud-blog/2008/11/14/questions-for-an-increasingly-irrelevant-osha/ A safety consultant writes us: “I have a client that's trying to convince all employees to stop wearing rings while working. Some employees are saying there are no facts and data to back up the ‘No Rings’ policy.” http://blog.ehstoday.com/out-loud-blog/2008/10/09/ring-this-up-to-caution/ I’ll be the first to admit that my relationship with regular exercise has been on-again, off-again at best. Obviously, I’m not alone. The Centers for Disease Control reports that more than 1 in 4 adults say they are obese, an increase of nearly 2 percent from 2005 to 2007. And ... http://blog.ehstoday.com/out-loud-blog/2008/09/30/taking-care-of-ourselves/ A recent experience caused me to realize that EHS managers more and more frequently are becoming not just road warriors, but international road warriors, subjected to hours and even days spent traveling every week. I'm going to start this category off with my own road warrior story, but feel free ... http://blog.ehstoday.com/out-loud-blog/2008/09/26/nsc-road-warriors/ Why would we change the name of a magazine – Occupational Hazards – that is celebrating its 70th anniversary in October? Well, we got the idea from you. For the past 20 years (at least), we’ve been documenting the changes going on in the occupational safety and health field. Corporate staffs ... http://blog.ehstoday.com/out-loud-blog/2008/09/09/ehs-today-whats-that/