The National Safety Council increases its grant funding to $260,000 for 2024 to advance research and innovation in preventing musculoskeletal disorders, the most common workplace injury, in collaboration with Amazon.
The National Safety Council reveals its Respond Ready Workplace program aimed at reducing workplace drug overdose fatalities. This initiative follows a staggering 536 percent rise in unintentional overdose deaths at workplaces from 2011 to 2021. The program seeks to integrate naloxone into workplace first aid kits, promote employee training, and collaborate with industries to bolster awareness and prevention measures.