After the 2016 presidential elections, many employers believed that the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) would be curtailed under the Trump Administration. So they put their...
Inspections of working areas and safety-program audits are tools used to identify problems before they can turn into accidents and injuries. Inspections and au
Every employee has the right to work in a healthy and safe environment. Neither employees nor their families should have to suffer because of dangers in the workplace. Personnel safety should be the...
Fall protection is the most often-cited safety violation by OSHA (U.S. Occupational Safety & Health Administration). According to OSHA, we can attribute more than 100,000 injuries and deaths to...
The potential for work-related injuries is always present regardless of how conscientious and attentive you are about observing health and safety regulations in the workplace.
What is a near miss? We can define it as an unplanned event that didn’t result in damage, illness, injury, or fatality but had the potential to do so. Although near misses don’t cause harm, they can...
Coworkers are like another family. We spend so much time with them—working together, helping each other, and experiencing success and failures together. When the relationships with our coworkers are...
PPE stands for Personal Protective Equipment. As the name says, PPE’s purpose is to protect employees in hazardous work environments. PPE typically is designed to protect the head (skull, ears, eyes,...
To expedite projects, executives, managers, and supervisors sometimes give safety procedures and protocols the lowest priority. Some even go as far as disregarding them completely. Why?
Learn how inspections can increase productivity, reduce costs, and improve safety in a systematic way that can be sustained as a competitive advantage.
