How a UN Decision on Safety and Health Will Actually Affect Employees
In what has been called the “biggest moment for workers’ rights in a quarter of a century,” the International Labour Organization (ILO)
The Danger of Armchair Psychology
Imagine you’re driving along the highway and you see an electric sign that reads, “79 traffic deaths this year.” Would this make you less likely to crash your car shortly after seeing the sign? Perhaps you think it would have no effect?
How Pharma Quality Leaders Navigate Shifts and Instigate Change
The pharmaceutical industry has seen significant upheaval and disruption during the past several years.
Small Businesses: Keeping Up With Today’s Economy
Standards are not for just the minority of businesses with thousands of employees.
From Wax Light to Moonlight
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NIST lunar telescope on Mauna Loa volcano, part of NIST’s first measurements of the lunar irradiance from this site. Credit: J. Woodward/NIST
One of the unexpected rewards of working at NIST has been the opportunity to see other disciplines through the NIST prism of measurement science and standards.
Standards Help Keep Firefighters Safe
‘Firefighters are heroes.” We hear it all the time, from children, the media, and young people looking for a rewarding career. It’s probably something you’ve said or thought yourself at one time or another.
Companies Use MIT Research to Identify and Respond to Supply Chain Risks
In February 2020, MIT professor David Simchi-Levi predicted the future.
Safer Food, Better Health, and a Brighter Future
Safer food, better health: This was the theme of World Food Safety Day (June 7, 2022), and it’s obvious, is it not, that access to safe food is vital for life and health? The challenge in today’s world is how to achieve this.
The Fourth Industrial Revolution: A Seductive Idea Requiring Critical Engagement
Narrative frames are fundamental to unifying ideologies. They frame what is possible and impossible, which ideas can be accepted, and which must be rejected.