As journalists in the business of writing about equipment, safety is a subject we've come to know intimately. The staff of Rental Product News has written about the safe operation of this machine or ...

During Q&A following an excellent presentation at an industry conference, a young electrician asked the speaker, “You’ve been in the industry for over 40 years. How did you overcome your fear of ...

Doha, Qatar, 28 August, 2012: The president of the world's oldest professional safety society has said that corporations in the energy sector are susceptible to complacency regarding the safety of ...

We often think of complacency as being constant in time. You are either complacent or you are not. But situational complacency exists. As the situation changes, an attitude that wasn’t complacent for ...

Today marks the beginning of National Work Zone Safety Awareness week. With recent events on I-695 in Maryland, which resulted in six highway workers dead after a passenger vehicle plowed through a ...

There seems to be an upward trend in several industries to list "complacency" as a contributory cause on accident investigation reports. Many perception surveys now ask workers if they have become ...

Completing the same task every day can get more than a little repetitive. After doing something so often, it becomes a habit and autopilot kicks in. Less concentration and thinking are required to ...