Let's Work to Zero!

Emily Whitcomb joined the National Safety Council in January of 2014 as a Research Associate, conducting evaluations for community, transportation, and workplace injury prevention programs. In 2016, Emily joined the Advocacy Department to launch the fatigue initiative, focused on reducing fatigue-related incidents and injuries in the workplace. Recently, in 2019, Emily joined the Safety Education, Training, & Services Department as the Director of the Work to Zero Initiative.  Work to Zero is focused on identifying promising technological innovations for eliminating workplace fatalities in our lifetime. Emily has a Masters of Public Health from the University of Illinois in Chicago, Illinois.

Topics addressed in this episode:

• Work to Zero initiative
  
• NSC initiatives such as Fatigue, My car does what, Road to Zero, Work to Zero
  
• White paper on Fatigue and upcoming white paper on Work to Zero
  
• Solutions to problems and risks in the workplace using innovation and technology
  
• Best practices to changing workplace injury risks: culture
  

Links:

• Emily Whitcomb: emily.whitcomb@nsc.org
  
• Work to Zero: https://www.nsc.org/work-safety/safety-topics/work-to-zero
  
• Safety topics: Fatigue https://www.nsc.org/work-safety/safety-topics/fatigue
  
• NSC white paper on fatigue: https://www.nsc.org/work-safety/safety-topics/fatigue/research/fatigue-white-paper
  
• NSC Work to Zero summit: https://www.eiseverywhere.com/website/5758/work-to-zero-summit-2/
  
• My car does what? https://www.nsc.org/road-safety/tools-resources/my-car-does-what