Choose Floor Marking Tape for Your Facility
When it comes to safety, floor marking tape to lead workers and facility visitors on the path away from danger…
Cleaning chemicals Tips: Know the risks -Safety Moment #9
Breathing problems. Itchy skin, rashes and burns. Irritated eyes. For some workers, including maintenance workers, janitors and housekeepers, these symptoms…
Non-Routine Safety Risks before Plant Shutdown Maintenance
Preparing for plant shutdown maintenance projects ahead of time and evaluating non-routine safety hazards prior to starting work will help…
With Personal Protective Equipment Mange the Risk
Injuries and illnesses continue to plague the construction industry each year. With one in five worker deaths in the United States last…
Tool Box Talk: Manual Handling of loads at work
Manual Handling Operation is any transporting or supporting of a load, including the lifting, lowering, putting down, pushing, pulling, carrying…
Enhancing performance & health and safety culture
Your workplace's health and safety culture, proactive management of health and safety, and health and safety performance are interlinked. Building…
E-Books:First Aid
First Aid by the U.S. Army medical department. This 224-page book was published for non-medical service members who must rely heavily on…
Ways that Mats Create Safe, Slip-Free Work Environments
One way to reduce injury-causing slips and falls is to pay attention to what’s on the floor of the workplace.Workplace…
Winter Fire Safety Tips
As summer turns to fall, it's a good idea to refresh your memory on fall fire safety tips. Some safety…
Tips for Choosing the Right AutoDarkening Welding Helmet
Helmets today are more functional than ever, can accommodate a welder’s specific needs and even offer some cool graphics. Still,…
Fatality Investigation: Orchard Worker Dies After Falling Off Tractor
These flashes summarize the key matters and incidents, allowing wider dissemination of lessons learnt form them. The information below has…
Microlearning’s Big Impact on Safety Training
Providing safety training in short bursts may help workers retain critical safety knowledge and procedures. [xt_networks title="Follow Us" force_original_colors="yes"] "Conjunction…
Is Fatigue a Hidden but Deadly Workplace Epidemic?
Nearly half of Americans admit they may be too tired to function safely at work.If you’re tired at work, you’re…
Keys to Building a Successful Active Threat Plan
As the national conversation regarding violence in the workplace suggests a heightened awareness stemming from increased media coverage, recent studies…
Four Minutes: Life and Death in Confined Spaces
Of all the workplace hazards, confined spaces are some of the most deceptive. What looks like a "normal" space could…
Risk of Explosion during Removal of Split Rim/Multi Piece Wheels from Vehicles-Safety Moment #8
Following a recent incident, the Health and Safety Authority (HSA) is issuing an urgent warning to owners, plant operators and…
Tool Box Talk: Back Sprains and strains
You may not be aware, but the most commonly experienced workplace injury is also the most avoidable. 50% of US…
A Proposed Rule for Beryllium
OSHA has published a new proposed rule on beryllium exposure that rolls back some requirements for the construction and maritime…
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Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act [EPCRA]
Emergency planning is critical for operations that handle or produce significant quantities of hazardous materials. Because of the danger to…
Death of Oregon forestry worker prompts new toolbox talk
Portland, OR – The Oregon Occupational Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Programrecently released a toolbox talk guide in response to…
OSHA releases fact sheet on spray painting in shipyards
Washington – A new fact sheet from OSHA is intended to protect shipyard workers from hazards associated with spray painting.…
Abrasive blasting: Know the hazards -Safety Moment #7
Abrasive blasting, which uses compressed air or water to clean surfaces, apply a texture, or prepare a surface for paint…
20 Best practices from the oil & gas industry
It’s an understatement to say in the past few years the oil and gas industry – both “upstream” in exploration…
The Importance of Safe Behavior
Regulations alone cannot improve safety. Buy-in at all levels is needed to change the culture.Although OSHA-compliant, many employers continue to…