In order to increase safety in the workplace, and keep employees informed, no matter what industry the company is engaged in, covering fundamental safety meeting topics in the workplace, at regular intervals, will help employees stay up to date on the newest safety regulations.
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Read More...Underwriters Laboratories Inc., better known as UL to millions of consumers, has just acquired Pure Safety, a leading training program provider to industry and small business. This indicates a serious move by UL to establish themselves in the workplace, as much as they have in homes around the U.S.
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Read More...It’s always amazed me how comfortable some people can be while they work in high-rise construction, or other “elevated” jobs. Like mountain goats, they don’t seem fazed at all with the conditions or the never-ending potential for a sudden fall.
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Read More...Lithium batteries are known to be a fire hazard but despite this, and several actual in-flight incidents of on board combustion, U.S. lawmakers have tentatively agreed to block the Obama administration from requiring that air shipments of lithium batteries be treated as hazardous cargo. This decision comes under pressure from various industries and foreign representatives.
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Read More...One of the best ways to prevent workplace accidents is to provide safety training on an ongoing basis. As humans, it is easy to get out of the practice of guarding our own safety. Most humans need the constant reminder of safety training in order to do their best work. The following tips can help to ensure compliance solutions.
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Read More...I’ve always loved the line by Mark Twain where he wrote, “It’s better to be careful 100 times than to be killed once”.
Workplace accidents are not always simply, well, accidental. There are usually a series of things that have occurred that lead up to the culmination of an accident. Knowing what some of these precursors are and addressing them early on may very well stop an accident that’s waiting to happen.
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OSHA or the Occupational Safety and Health Administration is a federal agency that’s been assigned to ensure safe and healthy working conditions in U.S. based companies. OSHA is actually a part of the Labor Department and to accomplish it’s purpose it works to design and enforce proven safety standards and it provides safety training and compliance assistance to employers.
It’s funny in a way. People just don’t expect to get hurt or injured and they’re honestly surprised when they do.
You know, if you’ve been involved in safety training and assessment for very long, that it’s inevitable that accidents will happen. It doesn’t matter how prepared or trained one might be, or if all the right equipment is being used. You can have all the right manuals with the most polished safety plan in a beautiful binder.
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