Workplace Safety

Get a Handle on Hand Safety: 5 Keys to Prevent Workplace Injuries

While hand injuries are common and costly, they are also PREVENTABLE. By developing a proper hand safety program, you can ensure the safety of your employees and prevent these life-altering injuries.

A Close Look at Confined Spaces: 4 Steps to Protect Your Employees

Confined spaces present a unique challenge and can often be more hazardous than regular workspaces. It is important for you to take the necessary steps to provide your employees with the proper equipment, training and programs to ensure they stay safe.

Top 10 Workplace Safety Tips Every Employee Should Know

Workplace safety cannot exist on best practice guidelines and policies alone. A safe working environment is based on how well the people, in both management and on the factory floor, adhere to—and communicate about—safety standards.

Understand the Dangers of Hazardous Materials

It is important to ensure your employees understand the dangers of hazardous materials, know how they should be stored and wear the proper protective equipment when exposed to them.

HAZWOPER: What Is It and Who Actually Needs It

The Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response regulation 29 CFR 1910.120, or HAZWOPER, is the OSHA regulation employers, first response agencies and remediation crews must follow during hazardous materials releases and hazardous waste operations. There are many aspects, and even training levels, to the HAZWOPER regulation and it can be confusing for most, even for some within the response community.

Mythbusters: Breaking Down Common Workplace Safety Myths

Whether they are old beliefs passed down from traditional safety views, or based on pure misconception and ignorance, present-day myths abound concerning workplace safety. If you are laboring under any of these myths, you may be putting your business and your employees at risk.

Painful Statistics on OSHA’s Slips, Trips and Falls

According to Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), most general industry incidents involve slips, trips, and falls—accounting for 15% of all accidental deaths, and are second only to motor vehicles as a cause of fatalities.

Effective Safety Incentive Programs: Pros and Cons

Proponents for Safety Incentive Programs believe that incentives are an essential tool for any organization, regardless of size or industry, in promoting workplace safety. Incentives build and maintain employee interest in working safely and act as a motivator for employees to work safer.

Shocking Facts about Electrical Safety

It's been reported by Electrical Safety Foundation International that there are over 400 electrocutions in the United States each year. Of these, approximately 180 are related to consumer products. 10% of those were cause by large appliances. In the workplace, the National Safety Council indicates that electrical hazards cause nearly one workplace fatality every day.

Top 5 Challenges Facing Safety Managers Today

With new regulations coming from OSHA and the first increase in workplace fatalities since 2010, it is imperative that organizations take the proper steps to keep their employees safe. SafetyManagers face increased pressure to maintain compliance, reduce incident rates and ensure employee safety.

10 Workplace Safety Recommendations That Work

Having worked with thousands of organizations since 1945 to support their safety efforts, here are 10 Workplace Safety Recommendations that will help your workers be safer.

Don’t Get Stuck: 12 Ways to Prevent Caught In/Between Injuries

OSHA previously identified the four most dangerous job site hazards for construction workers and they are falls, electrocutions, being struck by objects and being caught in/between hazards. These "Fatal Four" were responsible for 58% of all fatalities on construction sites in 2014.