Promoting the Safety Profession – 1923
Organized accident prevention effort in the United States started about some twelve or fifteen years ago. Since that time the whole plan of this activity may be measured up to the time of the big industrial slump. The progress and development in this great work was notable year by year and a new and most useful campaign, that of safety engineering, came into being and established itself.
The Browder Life-Saving Net
Introduction How do you save people caught in an upper floor of a building during a fire? For many years that was the role of a device invented by Thomas F. Browder. Mr. Browder was a soldier of the civil war. He was born in Greene County, Ohio on June 14, 1847 in a...
Shaving Cream Promotes Safety
Summary Invented in 1925, Burma Shave was a new product that changed shaving techniques. It was a cream rather than a traditional lather. It came in jars and tubes for easy dispensing. Many in the United States grew up reading the more than 500 different, fun,...
Beverly Hills Supper Club Fire of 1977
Introduction Going out for dinner and a show has been one of the casualties during the time of Covid-19. Before quarantine, working from home, and social distancing, many people enjoyed an evening at a favorite restaurant or club, often with friends or family. One of...
NIOSH – Project MINERVA
About the mid-1980s NIOSH pursued a project to encourage inclusion of safety and health information in business school academic programs. The idea was to improve the long-term safety and health performance among employers.
NIOSH named the program Project Minerva. The name came from the Roman goddess of wisdom. The program sought to develop occupational safety and health materials and encourage schools of business to integrate them into existing undergraduate and graduate curricula.