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Industry reporting, member spotlights, and operational guidance from ACWI. Every article from our archive is here — 1,254 posts going back to 2014.
A new study conducted by Selective Insurance Group shows that employers in all industries need to make sure all new workers undergo thorough safety training to avoid accidents and injuries. The study reviewed 10 years of workers’ compensation claims and…
Just how bad has the deterioration in rail service across the United States become? Grain elevators are full, sitting alongside trains that are also full and can’t move, leading to grain piling up beside the tracks. Plants and assembly lines have had to shut…
Download a copy of ACWI Advance here: In this issue of ACWI Advance, we take a closer look at these stories: DOL wage enforcement initiative targets private and 3PL warehouse employers. OSHA launches program aimed at employee heat-related injuries and…
The Coronavirus pandemic and supply chain crisis have spurred greater investments in high tech solutions, finds a recent survey of logistics leaders by MHI, the material handling, logistics and supply chain association. Because of this, investment in supply…
We are facing a workplace mental health crisis, with burnout, exhaustion and hopelessness more common among workers than ever before, argues the Society for Human Resource Management. A new survey conducted by SHRM found that 94% of human resources…
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration want employers to file their mandatory injury and illness reports electronically, which will be made public on the Internet – and easily sifted through by tort lawyers and union organizers. A similar proposal…
If you are an employer in the private and third-party logistics warehouse industry, you now have a target on your back that was pinned there by a new Department of Labor wage enforcement initiative. What you also need to know is this initiative conveniently…
The Trucking Alliance, a safety coalition of freight transportation and logistics companies, has joined with the Department of Labor in support of its truck driver apprenticeship training program. “The efforts by the Biden administration and by DOL to expand…
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is implementing a National Emphasis Program (NEP) intended to protect workers from heat-related injuries and illnesses in both outdoor and indoor workplaces. NEPs are temporary programs that focus OSHA's…
Amazon recently lost its first union election in its long battle to avoid unionization at its Staten Island, NY, distribution facility, seen as a major defeat in its long history of remaining union-free. The company is asserting that unwarranted influence…
Retailers and wholesalers are driving the trend towards larger big box warehouses, according to the commercial real estate services giant CBRE. North American “big-box” warehouse transactions (defined as 200,000 square feet or larger) rose dramatically in…
Drug usage by Americans in safety sensitive jobs is continuing to rise and expand, probably driven in part by the effects of the Covid 19 pandemic on the nation’s frayed social fabric, and the growing legalization of psychoactive drugs, such as marijuana and…
Blog
Industry reporting, member spotlights, and operational guidance from ACWI. Every article from our archive is here — 1,254 posts going back to 2014.
A new study conducted by Selective Insurance Group shows that employers in all industries need to make sure all new workers undergo thorough safety training to avoid accidents and injuries. The study reviewed 10 years of workers’ compensation claims and…
Just how bad has the deterioration in rail service across the United States become? Grain elevators are full, sitting alongside trains that are also full and can’t move, leading to grain piling up beside the tracks. Plants and assembly lines have had to shut…
Download a copy of ACWI Advance here: In this issue of ACWI Advance, we take a closer look at these stories: DOL wage enforcement initiative targets private and 3PL warehouse employers. OSHA launches program aimed at employee heat-related injuries and…
The Coronavirus pandemic and supply chain crisis have spurred greater investments in high tech solutions, finds a recent survey of logistics leaders by MHI, the material handling, logistics and supply chain association. Because of this, investment in supply…
We are facing a workplace mental health crisis, with burnout, exhaustion and hopelessness more common among workers than ever before, argues the Society for Human Resource Management. A new survey conducted by SHRM found that 94% of human resources…
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration want employers to file their mandatory injury and illness reports electronically, which will be made public on the Internet – and easily sifted through by tort lawyers and union organizers. A similar proposal…
If you are an employer in the private and third-party logistics warehouse industry, you now have a target on your back that was pinned there by a new Department of Labor wage enforcement initiative. What you also need to know is this initiative conveniently…
The Trucking Alliance, a safety coalition of freight transportation and logistics companies, has joined with the Department of Labor in support of its truck driver apprenticeship training program. “The efforts by the Biden administration and by DOL to expand…
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is implementing a National Emphasis Program (NEP) intended to protect workers from heat-related injuries and illnesses in both outdoor and indoor workplaces. NEPs are temporary programs that focus OSHA's…
Amazon recently lost its first union election in its long battle to avoid unionization at its Staten Island, NY, distribution facility, seen as a major defeat in its long history of remaining union-free. The company is asserting that unwarranted influence…
Retailers and wholesalers are driving the trend towards larger big box warehouses, according to the commercial real estate services giant CBRE. North American “big-box” warehouse transactions (defined as 200,000 square feet or larger) rose dramatically in…
Drug usage by Americans in safety sensitive jobs is continuing to rise and expand, probably driven in part by the effects of the Covid 19 pandemic on the nation’s frayed social fabric, and the growing legalization of psychoactive drugs, such as marijuana and…