Lab Coat Caution

Author: Doctor Labcoat

  • Nothing Happened Yesterday

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    After a string of deaths, fires and near-fatal injuries in Massachusetts scrap yards, the industry is asking how to keep good people from drifting, and the answer may take sixty seconds at a time.

  • NO-GO ZONE SAFETY

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    “Cab Exercise” HEAVY-EQUIPMENT NO-GO ZONES Operator Blind-Spot Awareness and Pedestrian Safety Training Training Overview Heavy equipment is essential to the movement, processing, and management of material throughout our facilities. Equipment operators routinely handle loads weighing several tons while working near employees, vehicles, containers, stockpiles, buildings, and other operational hazards. Although heavy equipment may be equipped…

  • Harassment Awareness

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    2026 Safety & Conduct Reference Sheet WHAT COUNTS AS HARASSMENT Workplace harassment is unwelcome conduct based on a protected characteristic — such as sex, race, color, national origin, religion, age, disability, or genetic information — that is severe or pervasive enough to create a hostile work environment, or that results in an adverse employment action…

  • Basic First Aid

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    Quick-Reference: Cuts, Burns, and Sprains BEFORE YOU BEGIN CUTS AND LACERATIONS Immediate Steps When to Escalate DO ✓  Apply firm, direct pressure with a clean dressing ✓  Keep the wound covered and clean ✓  Seek medical evaluation for deep or heavily bleeding wounds DON’T ✗  Remove an embedded object — stabilize it and get medical…

  • THE GOVERNOR COMES OFF

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    How a fix for stranded truckers became a referendum on the air a nation breathes I. The Mile Marker Somewhere on I-84 outside Hartford, a refrigerated trailer full of dairy is doing twenty-five miles an hour in the passing lane, hazards blinking, while a line of cars fumes behind it. The driver isn’t drunk, tired,…

  • The Silence Before the Fall

    The Silence Before the Fall

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    Is it time to leave, or stay and make a difference??

  • The Canary Doesn’t Sing Anymore

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    An account of what happens inside a company when the people who protect its workers stop being heard Editor’s note: The events, pressures, and conversations described below are drawn from a composite of EHS professionals across heavy industry, manufacturing, and construction. Names and identifying details have been changed to protect the professionals who spoke candidly…

  • The Price of Protection

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    Salary Transparency, Silence, and the Hidden Economics of Environmental, Health, and Safety I. Two Badges, One Conference The lanyards look identical. That is the first thing worth noticing, standing in the registration line of any national EHS conference — the ASSP Safety Conference in a downtown convention center, or a regional NSC chapter meeting in…

  • THE COST OF BEING INDISPENSABLE

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    Why EHS Managers Absorb Growing Risk Without Growing Pay — and What to Do Before It’s Too Late

  • From Compliance to Command:

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    The EHS Professional’s Path to Strategic Leadership How safety and environmental professionals at every level can stop thinking like compliance officers and start thinking like the business leaders they are already becoming. I. The Coordinator Who Knew Every Regulation — and Still Got Outmaneuvered She had memorized the OSHA 300 log. She tracked every near-miss…