What do these dual personality containers and a woman in Utah drinking sweet tea and a BBQ joint have in common?
Investigating an incident allows you to look beyond what happened and discover why it happened. It also allows you to identify and correct deficiencies in your safety and health programs, management shortcomings, and unsafe processes, conditions, and actions.
Unsafe working conditions and unsafe work practices lead to a staggering number of workplace and work-related injuries, illnesses, and deaths.
Flammable and combustible liquids can create a fire and explosion risk. Fortunately, most of the risk can be eliminated through careful use, storage, and disposal. This Workplan sets out a strategy you can implement over a 30-day period (and beyond) to prevent flammable and combustible liquid fires, fatalities, injuries and costly citations.
Seventy-five percent of all accidents are preceded by one or more near misses, according to the National Safety Council. So, if you’re trying to reduce the number of injuries and incidents with property damage and other incident-related loss, it makes sense to measure and manage your near misses.
Workplace fire safety is about preventing fires from starting —but also vital is dealing with a fire when it does start. If fire breaks out in your workplace, do your workers know what to do?
As a host employer you may find yourself responsible for the safety and health of your workers, temporary workers provided by staffing agencies, and workers employed by other contractors or subcontractors. This can create several challenges and hazards for you and your workers, and contractors and their employees.
Your workers are about to enter a storage bin to perform cleaning operations. The bin is a permit confined space; and since it has an IDLH (immediately dangerous to life and health) atmosphere, workers must use a respirator to do the work.
There are many misconceptions about heat stress, heat illnesses, and what a person should do when they are required to work hard in a hot environment. Be in the know so you can separate fact from fiction.
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From a moral and legal standpoint, it is simply unacceptable to ignore the issue of sexual harassment in the workplace.
Specific Employers Required to Submit 2017 Injury and Illness Data by July 1
An anti-harassment policy is a key component of a complete harassment prevention effort.
Studies show that workplace harassment (sexual harassment, bullying, and other forms of harassment) can have emotional and physical effects on a victim and can cause depression, anxiety, and in some cases lead to self-harm and even suicide.
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June 20, 2018 | Regardless of the industry or business, it is very unlikely for a senior manager to suggest that he or she does not support safety at the workplace. Messaging about the importance of health and safety is common in today’s world, both inside the business and externally. But how does that translate into substantive steps to achieve the result, especially when workers and resources may be stretched to or beyond capacity? This webinar will identify practical methods of showing managers not just why safety is important, but why it is absolutely the best choice for the continued success of their business and its people.
July 18, 2018 | One of the largest challenges employers have is ensuring that their employees are receiving training that covers all of the necessary elements, which also resonates with employees to reduce complacency. What follows are tips on how safety trainers can develop their programs to resonate with employees and ensure that they are developing an understanding of consequence.
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Ah, the beauty of spring, flowers blooming and trees budding. However, this beauty often comes at the expense of strong storms, tornadoes, torrential rain and flooding. If you don’t have a plan and you don’t use your head, you could end up with a very serious injury.
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