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What's New in Industrial Safety?

July 5, 2024
In this Great Question podcast, learn about the current state of industrial safety, and how companies are keeping their workers, their facilities and surrounding communities safe.

In this episode of The Great Question podcast, Dave Blanchard, editor-in-chief of EHS Today, and Traci Purdum, editor-in-chief of Chemical Processing, join IndustryWeek editor in chief Robert Schoenberger to offer their insights into how worker safety is impacting the manufacturing industry.

During his tenure at Endeavor Business Media, Dave has led the editorial management of many of the company’s best-known brands. Additionally, he serves as senior content director of the annual Safety Leadership Conference. Traci is an award-winning business journalist with extensive experience covering manufacturing and management issues.

Hear this panel of Endeavor Business Media experts discuss regulations and new legislation concerning worker safety, particularly how it impacts on chemical facilities; the growing mental health crisis in the workplace; and the difficulties in finding and training workers in proper safety protocols.

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About the Author

Robert Schoenberger | Editorial Director

Robert Schoenberger is vice president of content strategy of Endeavor Business Media's Industrial Group (which includes EHS Today), and editor-in-chief of IndustryWeek. He has been writing about manufacturing technology in one form or another since the late 1990s. He began his career in newspapers in South Texas and has worked for The Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, Mississippi; The Courier-Journal in Louisville, Kentucky; and The Plain Dealer in Cleveland where he spent more than six years as the automotive reporter. In 2014, he launched Today's Motor Vehicles (now EV Manufacturing & Design), a magazine focusing on design and manufacturing topics within the automotive and commercial truck worlds. He joined Endeavor in 2021.

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