BlueHiveEditorialPolicy

Our mission is to make complex occupational-health regulations understandable and actionable. Our primary audiences are HR managers, safety officers, compliance leaders, occupational-medicine providers, and the in-house counsel who advise them.

BlueHive content is published to inform business decisions and improve compliance — it is not legal advice, medical advice, or a substitute for the professional judgment of a licensed attorney, physician, certified medical review officer, or certified industrial hygienist. Where a regulation is open to interpretation, we say so and link to the primary source.

Every regulatory claim on BlueHive is traceable to a primary government source. When we summarize, paraphrase, or quote a rule, we cite the rule — not a secondary blog post about it.

Source hierarchy (highest authority first)

• Primary statutes and regulations — U.S. Code (U.S.C.), Code of Federal Regulations (C.F.R.), state codes, and state administrative regulations.
• Agency interpretive guidance — OSHA Letters of Interpretation, FMCSA Regulatory Guidance, PHMSA FAQs, HHS/SAMHSA guidelines, CMS transmittals, NIOSH publications, and equivalent state-agency guidance.
• Agency enforcement actions and press releases — OSHA citations, FMCSA enforcement notices, EEOC and DOL Wage & Hour bulletins, OSHA whistleblower (Section 11(c) and FRSA) findings.
• Peer-reviewed research and standards bodies — NIOSH, CDC, NLM/PubMed-indexed journals, ANSI, ACOEM position statements.
• Industry reference materials — vendor documentation, professional-society guidance (SHRM, ASSP, AOHP, NAOHP), and reputable trade press — used only for color or context, never as the sole authority for a regulatory claim.

Where a primary source has a permanent public URL, we link directly to it. Where it does not (for example, a PDF behind an agency redirect), we cite the document title, issuing agency, and publication date so readers can find it independently.

Every BlueHive article is published with a named author byline that links to a public profile page. Each author profile discloses the author’s job title, professional background, education, verifiable certifications, prior employment, and active social or professional accounts.

When an author has a personal or financial relationship that a reasonable reader would consider material to the topic — for example, prior employment at a vendor named in the article, ownership of stock in a regulated entity, or a paid relationship with an advocacy group — the article discloses that relationship in a sourced footnote or an inline italicized note immediately following the byline.

BlueHive is the publisher and stands behind every article it publishes, regardless of which staff author or external contributor wrote the first draft.

Sponsored and partner content

BlueHive does not accept paid placements, paid links, or affiliate commissions in its editorial blog or Compliance Watch sections. Co-marketing assets produced jointly with a partner (for example, a co-branded white paper) are clearly labeled as sponsored or partner content, identify the partner organization, and disclose the nature of the relationship at the top of the document.

Before publication, every article moves through a documented review workflow:

• Draft — the named author writes the article and assembles a working source list (URLs, document titles, CFR citations).
• Source verification — a second person opens every linked source, confirms the cited language exists, and flags any claim that is not supported by a primary source.
• Regulatory review — for posts in the *Compliance*, *Health & Safety*, and *Compliance Watch* categories, a subject-matter reviewer (a BlueHive staff member with operational background in the regulatory domain) reads the article end-to-end and signs off in the publishing checklist.
• Copy edit — a final pass for clarity, accuracy of dates and dollar amounts, heading hierarchy, alt text on images, and adherence to the BlueHive style guide.
• Publish & date-stamp — the post receives an `datePublished` value (the date of first publication) and, on every subsequent material update, a fresh `dateModified` value.

Articles that summarize or quote a specific employer, provider, or government action are read by a second editor with that subject in mind before publication. Direct quotes are confirmed against the underlying transcript, press release, or filing.

The BlueHive content team operates independently of BlueHive’s sales, customer success, and partnerships organizations. The content team is not compensated based on lead volume, signups, or revenue attributable to any individual article, and no member of the sales or partnerships team has approval authority over editorial coverage decisions.

BlueHive sells occupational-health coordination services. We will sometimes write about topics that are commercially relevant to our business — for example, the operational cost of slow drug screening, or the workflow burden of multi-state hiring. In those articles, we make the commercial connection explicit and cite independent data wherever possible, so readers can evaluate the underlying claim on its merits.

When an article discusses a competitor, vendor, or partner, we apply the same factual standard we apply to ourselves: claims about that organization are linked to that organization’s own public statements, regulatory filings, or third-party reporting.

Occupational-health regulations change constantly. We maintain BlueHive content as a living library rather than an archive:

Updates

When a regulation, deadline, dollar amount, or cited interpretation changes, we update the affected articles, bump the article’s `dateModified` value, and add an inline editor’s note describing what changed and when. Articles in the *Compliance Watch* category include a "Last Verified" date in the body so readers know when the underlying citations were most recently re-checked.

Corrections

If we discover — or a reader notifies us — that an article contained a material factual error at the time of publication, we correct the error in place, add a dated correction notice at the top of the article describing the original error and the correction, and re-stamp `dateModified`. We do not silently rewrite the affected sentence.

Retractions

In rare cases where an article is so substantially wrong that it cannot be corrected in place — for example, the underlying regulation never existed, or the cited enforcement action was not actually filed — we retract the article. Retracted articles keep their original URL, but the body of the article is replaced with a clearly labeled retraction notice explaining what was wrong and pointing to any superseding article.

BlueHive case studies, customer quotes, and screenshots are published only with the documented written permission of the named customer. We anonymize de-identified examples (for example, "a Midwestern manufacturer with ~450 employees") when illustrating a workflow without naming the customer.

We do not publish individual examinees’ protected health information (PHI), drug-screening results, or fitness-for-duty determinations in any editorial article. Aggregate, de-identified data may be referenced when it has been published by the underlying agency or aggregator in a form that is not re-identifiable.

How BlueHive collects and uses information about readers of this website is governed by the Privacy Policy.

BlueHive authors may use generative AI tools as research assistants — to outline a topic, summarize a long PDF, suggest analogies, draft a first version of a paragraph, or critique a draft. We do not treat AI output as authoritative, and we do not publish AI-generated text that has not been reviewed, edited, and fact-checked by a named human author against primary sources.

• Always: a named human author is responsible for every article and signs off on the final published version.
• Always: every regulatory claim is verified against a primary government source by a human, not by an AI tool.
• Never: AI is used as a source for facts, dates, dollar amounts, or citations.
• Never: AI-generated images of identifiable real people, real customer logos, or real regulatory documents are presented as photographs of those things.

Where an article was assembled with substantial AI assistance — for example, an experimental long-form summary generated by an internal pipeline — we disclose that fact in the article body.

BlueHive articles are written and formatted to meet WCAG 2.1 Level AA. That means sequential heading hierarchy, descriptive alt text on meaningful images, sufficient color contrast, plain-language summaries of complex regulations, and avoidance of figures-of-speech that do not translate. Our full commitments are documented in the Accessibility Statement.

We use person-first language when referring to people with disabilities, in addiction recovery, or affected by occupational injuries. We follow current AP and CDC guidance on the language used to describe demographic groups, and we update older articles when style guidance evolves.

For corrections, feedback, story tips, source materials, or pitches from outside contributors, contact the BlueHive editorial team through our contact form. Please include the article URL (if applicable) and a short description of the issue or proposal.

We read every message. We do not guarantee that we will publish unsolicited contributed articles, but we evaluate every pitch against this policy and respond to all serious inquiries.