Category: Back to Basics

Highlighting the building blocks of safety culture and essential information that any EHS professional should know.

Back to Basics: Building and Maintaining Psychological Safety

Back to Basics is a weekly feature that highlights important but possibly overlooked information that any EHS professional should know. This week, we examine the importance of workplace psychological safety. While workers face many physical hazards on the job, it’s important to consider the non-physical hazards as well. Psychological safety is a crucial part of any […]

Back to Basics: Protecting Your Employees from Summer’s Heat Hazards

Back to Basics is a weekly feature that highlights important but possibly overlooked information that any EHS professional should know. This week, we examine how to protect employees from summer heat hazards. Even as workplace heat hazards continue unabated, the regulation of worker heat injuries and illnesses continues to evolve: If you have employees who work […]

Back to Basics: Preventing Amputations and Other Mechanical Hazards

Back to Basics is a weekly feature that highlights important but possibly overlooked information that any EHS professional should know. This week, we examine mechanical hazards. If your company is in the manufacturing sector, your employees likely face mechanical hazards, including the risk of amputation, from operating, cleaning, maintaining, or repairing equipment or machinery. Last September, […]

Back to Basics: Handling the Range of Workplace Chemical Hazards

Back to Basics is a weekly feature that highlights important but possibly overlooked information that any EHS professional should know. This week, we examine workplace chemical hazards. Every day, on-the-job exposures to chemicals can pose health and safety hazards to your employees. Those can be addressed by exposure control methods like engineering or administrative controls, personal […]

Back to Basics: Human and Organizational Performance

Back to Basics is a weekly feature that highlights important but possibly overlooked information that any EHS professional should know. This week, we examine Human and Organizational Performance. As organizations strive to improve worker safety, some are taking a different approach that incorporates human factors engineering and organizational psychology. Called Human and Organizational Performance (HOP), the […]

Back to Basics: Construction Safety and Health

Back to Basics is a weekly feature that highlights important but possibly overlooked information that any EHS professional should know. This week, we examine construction safety and health. Building involves various tasks and projects performed by laborers representing multiple trades using all kinds of tools and equipment. That variety of work comes with various health […]

Back to Basics: Emergency Preparedness on the Farm

Back to Basics is a weekly feature that highlights important but possibly overlooked information that any EHS professional should know. This week, we examine emergency preparedness for farm workers. For farm workers, there are many emergencies and hazards that may occur. To prepare for these events, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recommends that […]

Back to Basics: Understanding Your Workers’ Compensation Responsibilities

Back to Basics is a weekly feature that highlights important but possibly overlooked information that any EHS professional should know. This week, we examine the ins and outs of workers’ compensation claims. In your safety and health responsibilities, workers’ compensation claims are the flipside of regulatory compliance. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) compliance officers can […]

Back to Basics: Getting Caught Up on Safety Research

Back to Basics is a weekly feature that highlights important but possibly overlooked information that any EHS professional should know. This week, we examine the latest workplace safety research. We recently examined how safety training and a strong corporate safety culture can help protect your workers from injuries, illnesses, and fatalities. Professional safety organizations have also […]

Back to Basics: How to Prepare for Disasters

Back to Basics is a weekly feature that highlights important but possibly overlooked information that any EHS professional should know. This week, we examine how to prepare for disaster situations. We recently looked at wildfire health and safety hazards following the wildfires in Southern California. California, Oregon, and Washington have state rules addressing the health […]