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The Importance of Testing Exit Signs & Emergency Light

Testing and maintenance of emergency lighting and exit signs are essential for workplace safety. Maintaining these units can be crucial for helping your personnel safely navigate to other work areas...
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Topics: safety management, workplace safety, inspection management

Safety Made Easy - Walk Throughs and Observation Reporting

A safety walk through is a vital component of every safety program. They allow managers and supervisors to evaluate the program, identify any deficiencies, and determine actions and areas that need...
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Topics: safety management, workplace safety, inspection management, safety audits

Inspecting Workplace Lighting

Inspecting and maintaining lighting at your business location is crucial and should be performed regularly. Lighting not only illuminates your store's brand but also provides adequate lighting for...
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Topics: workplace safety, equipment maintenance, facility audits

3 Ways to Get Employee Involvement in Safe Work Initiatives

Creating a strong 'health and safety' work environment is one of the biggest challenges for most organizations. Nevertheless, numerous companies have successfully developed safety cultures that have...
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Topics: safety awareness, workplace safety, inspection management

Applying the Plan-Do-Check-Act Cycle to safety and inspecting

The Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) Cycle is a model for solving problems and implementing solutions in a diligent, systematic way. While it is mostly used as a fundamental part of the lean manufacturing...
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Use Inspections To Make Warehouses Safer

Warehouses may look and feel safe since they typically don't have any dangerous machines inside. But, the reality is different. Accidents in warehouses happen rather frequently, and the fatality...
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Topics: workplace safety, facility audits

5 Kinds Of Checklists You Can Use To Make The Workplace Safer And More Efficient

An inspection checklist is an essential tool used in numerous industries for assessing the compliance of a particular procedure, process, facility, or equipment with standards set either by internal,...
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Topics: inspection checklists, checklist design

10 Questions You Want To Answer In Your Health & Safety Committee Meetings

Health and safety committees in the workplace consist of worker and management members. Specific legislation defines how each member of the committee is selected. Labor laws in Canada state that the...
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Topics: safety management, workplace safety, inspection management

Inspecting Machine Guards Saves Fingers… And Lives

Unfortunately, even today, there are too many instances of unguarded or inadequately guarded machines in any workplace. Statistics say that approximately 18,000 lacerations, amputations, abrasions,...
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Topics: safety awareness, equipment maintenance

A Spotlight On Industrial Hygiene

After a year marked by a still-ongoing health crisis, special attention is paid to all the ways we can make our workplaces and homes cleaner and safer for our health. However, keeping everything...
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Topics: why inspect?, inspection management

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