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This month we continue assessing your various training options to help you put together the right mix of blended learning to ensure your workers are the best trained they can be. In this issue, we’ll look at online training, which offers several options for teaching employees. Many companies with employees in a variety of locations […]
Our Safety Training Tips editor says that now, as we near the middle of National Nutrition Month, is a good time to talk to employees about the importance of good nutrition. We all know we should “eat right,” “watch our diet,” “go easy on the grease and sugar,” and so on. But even though your […]
In the final stages of a very busy summer, the EPA released its newly proposed regulations for hazardous waste generators. These rules are designed to address generator-specific requirements, correct technical errors, and reorganize the generator rules at 40 CFR 261.5 to make them easier to read.
The Indiana Occupational Safety and Health Administration (IOSHA) says it’s achieved quite a lot in three decades. Find out how this state OSHA program is improving the lives of Hoosier workers.
EPA’s revised standards to protect agricultural workers from exposure to pesticides are intended to provide workers with the same level of protections afforded by law to workers in other industries. According to Arturo S. Rodriguez, president of the United Farm Workers of America, the final revisions for the standards meet that expectation.
In celebration of this extra day of the year, our Safety Training Tips editor provides an extra helping of training advice, along with the ingredient that makes it all work. Successful safety training that gives you a good ROI in terms of fewer accidents, better compliance, and lower costs doesn’t just happen. You have to […]
In one of the latest shots fired in the war of words raging over the safety of bisphenol A (BPA), a new study has linked elevated concentrations of the chemical in human urine to increased risk of cardiovascular disease and diabetes. BPA is an industrial chemical used primarily to make polycarbonate plastic and epoxy resins. […]
The EPA has issued a proposal to update provisions under 15 headings in its National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) program. The proposal results in part from an ongoing directive from the White House instructing federal agencies to conduct periodic reviews of regulations to eliminate outdated requirements and reduce the compliance burden on the regulated […]
A rotating airlock blade severed a 30-year-old worker’s three fingertips as he cleaned the machine at a Wisconsin organic food manufacturing facility, an incident federal safety investigators found could have been prevented if the machine had been powered down fully. OSHA cited the company for the same violation in 2012.
Healthcare workers in home settings face a variety of safety and health risks, but they often lack access to programs offered to those in traditional settings. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is offering a web-based curriculum that focuses on practical solutions. Keep reading for details.