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Safety Checklists Aren’t Just for Work

Smart businesses invest the necessary money, put in the required time, and have a real commitment to make their workplaces as safe as possible.
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Topics: safety management, safety awareness, inspection checklists

10 Tips for Maximizing the Value of Safety Committees

Safety committees are an excellent way to improve safety in any organization. When implemented correctly, they take advantage of the collective knowledge of the entire company—particularly the...
3 min read

Topics: safety management, safety awareness, workplace safety, equipment safety

3 Steps to Create a Safety Culture

Even with appropriate safety policies in place, if there’s not a genuine safety culture at all levels of a company, there will inevitably be costly (and potentially tragic) safety lapses.
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Topics: safety management, safety awareness, workplace safety, equipment safety

Step Up to the Plate With a Strong Business Case for Safety

Very healthy returns on investment (ROI) are possible by investing in safety, according to a recent article in the National Safety Council’s Safety + Health magazine.
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Topics: safety management, safety awareness, workplace safety

Lawn Mower Blades Cut Both Ways

It’s the time of the season to break out the lawn mowers!
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Topics: why inspect?, safety management, safety awareness, inspection checklists

Lessons Learned from Deadly Hoist Collapse

OSHA recently released a report describing an incident in which a material hoist collapsed, killing a 37-year-old man.
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Topics: why inspect?, safety management, safety awareness, inspection best practices

Safety Attitudes Are Contagious: Is Yours Worth Catching?

Without question, the most important element in lowering safety-related costs is attitude. For a safety program to work as it should, management and personnel must have the attitude that safety...
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Topics: why inspect?, safety management, safety awareness

Avoid the Summertime Blues: Train Summer Workers in Safety

Summer is just around the corner, and with it will come students looking for temporary work or internships. Many companies wisely take advantage of this seasonal opportunity.
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Topics: why inspect?, safety management, safety awareness, inspection checklists, inspection management

Why SCBAs Are More Important Than Ever

Thirty years ago, firefighters who wore a self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) into a fire were considered wimps.
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Topics: why inspect?, safety management, safety awareness, inspection checklists

Will Workplaces Be Safer in 2014?

Looking back at the news of 2013, it’s easy to have a bad feeling about workplace safety in 2014.
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Topics: why inspect?, safety management, safety awareness, inspections and profitability

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