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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Read More...Workplace accidents are more than common in today’s industries, particularly in construction and light industrial settings. However, such occurrences are not limited to just these fields of work. Accidents in the office are not unheard of, and the causes are most often due to someone’s negligence or carelessness.
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Read More...It’s cause for alarm anytime a workplace accident occurs but the question is can they really be avoided? It’s probably impractical to suggest that all incidents can be eliminated, afterall, workplace settings are inherently dangerous. However carelessness, and apathy can add to this already present risk.
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Read More...OSHA (The Occupational Safety and Health Administration) has a mammoth task, considering there are millions of employers and businesses in the United States. Since OSHA’s mandate is to govern the safety and protection of every worker in the U.S. from workplace accidents, it must find effective ways of communicating with employers and employees alike and making its resources readily available and easily accessible. With new technologies emerging every year, OHSA must constantly evaluate the market and identify what it takes to keep America’s workers safe.
Both OSHA and its counterpart NIOSH (The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health) were created as a result of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970. This act guarantees safety in the workplace for every citizen in the United States. NIOSH’s mandate involves research into creating safer workplaces, while OSHA’s mandate involves writing policies which govern workplace safety, as well as providing training and education to employers/managers and employees, and ensuring compliance with federal safety regulations in every workplace in America.
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