National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell ordered every NFL team to attend the Concussion Summit in Chicago on June 19. All 32 team’s health and safety committees, doctors and trainers met to discuss a growing concern in the league: post-career illnesses such as depression,...

Listening to an angry group of construction and government leaders this week put a new spin on an old problem - the “underground economy,” which continues to thrive in all sectors.

We tend to blame the government and its...

Why do executives so often draw the same boring conclusion that young workers get injured because they're afraid to ask questions? Tomorrow I could stick a "for hire" sign on the front lawn of my factory, and I guarantee that within three hours, I'd have a mile-long...

A 15-year-old boy was killed last week at a high school where I spoke a month ago. Two of his classmates at C.W. Jeffreys High School in Toronto, Ontario, Canada were charged yesterday with the crime of gunning down Jeffrey Manners in cold blood in a school hall in...

I just got Shell Oil to figure out how to sign up an athletic star such as Tom Brady, quarterback for the New England Patriots - without a signing bonus or other offer of money!

When I took this challenge last week to 50 executives at Shell, as well as their newest employees, I split...

Tony Blair is an obvious choice as leader of a brand-new movement: Safety-Respect-Prosperity. He could become the "Al Gore" of workplace safety now that's he looking for a job after 10 years leading Britain. I think he's the best candidate for Safety CEO because...

1. During the Blair...

This week on Capitol Hill, five children stood amongst the towering pinstriped legs of officials from the American Society of Safety Engineers' (ASSE), U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Canadian Society of Safety Engineering (CSSE) and OSHA Alliance members representing more...

I’m a fan of CNN's Anderson Cooper, I admit - but why does a young man who will inherit the Vanderbilt fortune keep risking his neck in fields of death and danger? And what’s up with his self-confessed growing numbness around the cruelties done to humans?