{"id":9760,"date":"2017-01-19T14:43:20","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T22:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/?p=9760"},"modified":"2017-01-19T14:43:20","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T22:43:20","slug":"u-s-occupational-safety-health-administration-joins-sustainability-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/2017\/01\/19\/u-s-occupational-safety-health-administration-joins-sustainability-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration Joins the Sustainability Conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/files\/2017\/01\/osha.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-9762 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/files\/2017\/01\/osha.jpg\" alt=\"osha\" width=\"182\" height=\"101\" \/><\/a>The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) joins the conversation about sustainability by recognizing the need to focus on social sustainability. Sustainability encompasses environmental, economical, and social issues, yet oftentimes the environment gains more attention\u00a0above the other two. It remains important to view the thr<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/files\/2017\/01\/sustainabilityvenn.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-9761 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/files\/2017\/01\/sustainabilityvenn.png\" alt=\"sustainabilityvenn\" width=\"202\" height=\"203\" \/><\/a>ee pillars as integrated as possible and not as separate issues. OSHA stands up and shares their thoughts and goals\u00a0for creating a more sustainable workplace. In the paper, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.osha.gov\/sustainability\/docs\/OSHA_sustainability_paper.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Sustainability in the Workplace, a New Approach for Advancing Worker Safety and Health<\/a>,&#8221; OSHA shares the start of the agency&#8217;s sustainability journey.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.osha.gov\/sustainability\/docs\/OSHA_sustainability_paper.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Read the paper here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Visit their website here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.osha.gov\/sustainability\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">OSHA.gov\/sustainability<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Safety is the workplace matters if it truly wants to be sustainable and often times worker safety and health are left out of the sustainability vision. OSHA recognizes this and is starting\u00a0the conversation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Interested in learning more or sharing ideas? Contact\u00a0sustainability@dol.gov or visit their twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OSHA_DOL\" target=\"_blank\">@OSHA_DOL\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) joins the conversation about sustainability by recognizing the need to focus on social sustainability. Sustainability encompasses environmental, economical, and social issues, yet oftentimes the environment gains more attention\u00a0above the other two. It remains important to view the three pillars as integrated as possible and not as separate issues. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7925,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1292114],"tags":[388163,187000,707951,707952],"class_list":["post-9760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-and-safety","tag-health-and-safety","tag-osha","tag-social-sustainability","tag-worker-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7925"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9760"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9764,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9760\/revisions\/9764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}