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We recently blogged about the National Safety Council’s efforts in the U.S. to get people to “take safety home” when they leave the workplace. But it’s summertime, and a lot of people are enjoying...

Risk management is at the heart of business success. It basically boils down to “protect your backside,” and companies that don’t do that, don’t last long.

According to a May 18 report by The Canadian Press, only one in four commercial vehicles over 4,500 kilograms passed safety inspections during a May inspection blitz in Alberta.

The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is big on “good faith.”

Accidents involving motor vehicles are the leading cause of work-related deaths in the United States, where more than one in three occupational deaths from 2003 to 2010 involved motor vehicles.

Trailers are used by many companies, and for the same reasons that it’s good business to inspect the vehicles pulling them, it pays to regularly inspect the trailers themselves.

After this particularly long winter, it’s getting time to fire up the grill—finally.

Daily pre-use inspections of commercial vehicles are about much more than inspection compliance.

Many companies continue to overlook the importance of equipment hydraulic systems—despite the significant costs of doing so.

It’s the time of the season to break out the lawn mowers!