I know I am supposed to have a health and safety statement in place and Risk Assessment Document, but I have kept putting it off. What it is the importance of this?

In an ideal world, every piece of food we eat would be free of pathogens at all times. In the real world, though, where 600 ...

Facilities operated by the US Department of Energy (DOE) are required to have extensive worker safety and health programs by regulation. We describe how Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) has ...

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Helene was a powerful reminder that natural hazards don’t disappear when the skies clear – they evolve.

Hurricane Helene lasted only a few days in September 2024, but it altered the landscape of the Southeastern U.S. in ways that will affect the hazards residents face far into the future.

Geoscientists have published a large review paper in the journal Science that highlights the capacity of current models to ...

University of Michigan researchers and collaborators from across the U.S. are working to better understand the linked hazards that follow events like ...

Climate risk models, which are widely used in the insurance industry, can estimate the likelihood that fires or floods will affect a specific place in the United States, even down to the address level ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary ... eruptions – also trigger cascading hazards, often with long-lasting effects. Mount St. Helens is a ...

The deadly Texas floods have brought the state's approach to land approvals, especially in flood-prone areas, under more ...