Take Steps to Prevent Employee Heat Stress
As the temperature rises, make sure your workers stay healthy and avoid heat stress.
Tag: PPE
Just How Important is Safety Training?
Today’s Advisor looks at several recent cases in which safety training may have saved employee lives. Case studies provide real-life examples of why it is important for learners to complete safety training and apply that knowledge back on the job. Let’s look at a few. In only one month last year, the federal Occupational Safety […]
Worker Fatalities Show Importance of Safety Training
Today’s Advisor reports on several workplace fatalities that may have been prevented with more effective safety training. Case studies provide real-life examples of why it is important for learners to complete safety training and apply that knowledge back on the job. In the month of June 2013 alone, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) […]
Arm Yourself with the Facts About Hand Safety
Hand injuries can be especially traumatic, stripping away not only a worker’s ability to work, but also the ability to perform activities of daily living. Dr. Gregory A. Merrell is a surgeon at the Indiana Hand Center, the largest, free-standing hand surgery center in the country. The facility is also the nation’s leading training center […]
Help Workers Make the Connection Between Housekeeping and Their Health and Safety
Is your workplace a mess? If so, it’s time to get employees to clean up their act, for the sake of their safety and health. A messy workplace is more than just unsightly. It has the potential to create hazards, including: Fire! Paper garbage, wood shavings, combustible dusts, rags soaked with flammable chemicals—if not disposed […]
Facts about OSHA’s Lab Standard and Chemical Hygiene Plans
Yesterday, we describe eight elements that must be included in chemical hygiene plans. Today, we review more facts about the plans required under OSHA’s lab standard. OSHA’s Occupational Exposure to Hazardous Chemicals in Laboratories Standard (29 CFR 1910.1450) applies to all laboratories that use hazardous chemicals on a laboratory scale. A laboratory is defined as […]
8 Elements of a Chemical Hygiene Plan
If you’re required to have a chemical hygiene, make sure it contains these elements. Since 1990, OSHA has required facilities engaged in the use of chemicals in a laboratory to develop and implement a written chemical hygiene plan (CHP). OSHA requires these facilities to set forth procedures, equipment, PPE, work practices, training, and policies to […]
Safe Work Practices to Prevent Arc Flash Incidents
Arc flash incidents can be deadly. Make sure your employees know safe work practices.
Train Workers to Recognize Arc Flash Hazards and Take Proper Precautions
The more your workers know about arc flash hazards and precautions, the safer they will be.
HAZWOPER Health and Safety Plan Checklist
Take a quick look at the requirements for HAZWOPER health and safety plans.