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January is National Financial Wellness Month, which presents a good opportunity to start your training year off with a “soft” yet important wellness session on finances. Why? Personal financial problems can be a huge distraction for your employees and could cause them to lose focus on the job and take unsafe actions. Today’s Advisor gives […]
Yesterday, we presented the views of two leaders in workplace safety on closing the gap between safety as a value and safety culture. Today, we conclude with the thoughts of a third. Jeff Ruebesam, VP of Global Health, Safety and Environmental at Fluor Corporation, spoke about his company’s use of leading indicators to measure employee […]
There is a gap between the value of worker safety and the culture of safety in many organizations. Closing the gap is a major concern for safety professionals and executive managers. Jeff Ruebesam, VP of Global Health, Safety and Environmental at Fluor Corporation, spoke about his company’s use of leading indicators to measure employee engagement […]
Do your employees understand the fundamental machine safety rules? Here are 10 rules supervisors can present at their next machine safety meeting. 1. Never remove or try to defeat machine safeguards. 2. Don’t create new hazards, such as allowing objects to fall into the moving parts or by creating a new pinch point. 3. Report […]
We pick up used oil in the following states from a variety of generators in a number of states. What are our requirements for providing a manifest to the customers in those states that we pick up the used oil from? Under the federal rules, a hazardous waste manifest does not need to accompany each […]
There have been many challenges confronting the EPA and Texas–challenges that are also faced by other large states–in reaching common ground regarding the level of public participation in the air permitting process and how that level is to be achieved. For example, air permitting can cover a wide range of both major actions that require […]
Getting off their chairs while they work might help employees improve overall health, according to some experts. Some new technology in workstation design comes to the rescue. Steelcase, a leading manufacturer of office furniture, has developed new workstation designs that allow employees to sit, stand, and even walk while they work. For example, one of […]
Authorized by California’s 2008 Green Chemistry statute (Assembly Bill 1879), a final SCPR as it was proposed would constitute the most far-reaching regulation yet of chemicals of concern (COC) by requiring that manufacturers conduct complex analyses of these substances. Such analyses would be intended to reduce the concentration of the COC in a product and/or […]
__ Are employees familiar with spill prevention procedures? __ Are employees familiar with spill prevention/control equipment used at the facility? __ Does your facility have written procedures for inspecting/testing oil spill containment systems? __ Have appropriate personnel been properly instructed in the operation and maintenance of equipment to prevent the discharge of oil? __ Do […]