Scary Statistics: Take Immediate Action
Don’t neglect your safety responsibilities at your facility. Lack of attention and cutting corners can lead to big consequences both financially and physically through lost production, greater employee...
View ArticleStrategize, Be Firewise: OSHA Workplace Fire Safety Planning
When OSHA conducts workplace inspections, one of the areas of your facility that they will check is whether you are in compliance with OSHA standards for fire safety. OSHA standards require employers...
View ArticleWorkplace Safety News Roundup
A lesson in chemicals workers breathe in the workplace and their lasting effects OSHA devotes most of its budget and attention to responding to here-and-now dangers rather than preventing the silent,...
View ArticleWhy Has Lock-out/Tag-out Remained an OSHA Top 10 Violation?
Failure to establish program(1910.147(c)(1)), Failure to develop procedures for energy control(1910.147(c)(4)(i)), Failure to conduct employee training(1910.147(c)(7)(i)), Failure to conduct periodic...
View ArticleForklift Safety Best Practices: How Workplace Conditions Affect Safety...
Understanding the dynamic of your work environment is essential when applying best practice navigation and forklift safety throughout your facility. Physical Conditions: Consider the physical...
View ArticleTop Safety Concerns in Manufacturing “On the Floor”
The manufacturing industry has many hazards both obvious and unique to each facility. Managing an operation with a broad range of responsibilities is daunting if you aren’t well versed in what you...
View ArticleWorkplace Safety News Roundup
Six Challenges Facing Modern Manufacturing Companies Manufacturing is an ever-changing industry, where manufacturers face new issues and concerns every year. Since this year is no exception, here are a...
View ArticleNational Safety Month: Why Workplace Safety Is Important
Sewage worker, hazmat diver, port-o-potty inspector. While these jobs top the list of the dirtiest occupations in America, could you image what they would be like without all of the necessary...
View ArticleOSHA Compliance Update: Walking and Working Surfaces OSHA New Rule
What have you been working on since 1990? The year the Simpsons aired for the first time, the Hubble telescope was placed into orbit, and the first navigation system was installed in a car. While all...
View ArticleHarness the Fall Protection Safety Basics: What All Safety Managers Need to Know
Fall hazards are a serious issue, and I’m not just talking the daily tumble we all take rolling out of bed in the morning. In any case if we all know falls are a clear and present danger, why isn’t...
View ArticleWhat if There Was No OSHA? A Labor Day Tribute to Hardworking Employees and...
With the recent news trending around the proclamation that Americans should be working harder and longer, it is sure to strike a reaction in many across the nation, but what about those who are...
View ArticleOut of Site, Never Out of Mind: Lone Worker Best Practices
All by myself, don’t want to be all by myself, ANYMOREEEE! What a great song and what a great way to sum up #loneworkerproblems. While working alone isn’t necessarily a bad thing, not having the proper...
View ArticleIs OSHA changing Up Your Injury and Illness Reporting Again
You’re not the only one asking yourself “didn’t these changes already happen in January?” You aren’t going crazy, there was indeed an injury and illness reporting change to kick off 2015, but they...
View Article9 Tips for Preventing Slips, Trips and Falls at Your Facility
Where does the line between clumsy worker and workplace slips, trips and fall hazards get drawn? Chances are if a clumsy worker ends up hurting himself under your watch, the outcome will be the same:...
View ArticleThe Official Top 10 OSHA Violations Have Been Revealed
Every year OSHA comes out with the top 10 violations in hopes that those who have not yet been cited will take note and make the changes necessary to save their facility from falling prey to the common...
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