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Why psychological health and safety (PHS) is the future of workplace safety

The safety landscape is about to undergo a major transformation. Over the next decade, the biggest threats to workplace safety won’t come from machinery malfunctions or ladder falls. Rather, they’ll come from psychosocial hazards: excessive workload, unsupportive leadership, workplace bullying, and lack or autonomy. These are the hidden risks that erode attention, impair decision-making, and…
How to Become a Safety Manager

How to Become a Safety Manager

The work of a safety manager can be fulfilling as you get to promote and improve safety in your workplace. However, it’s not always an easy job, and getting qualified can be challenging without the right credentials. You must consider whether you have the right traits, if you plan to get a degree, which industry…
How to Save Money By Developing Your Own Safety Programs

How to Save Money By Developing Your Own Safety Programs

While prioritizing workplace safety is essential, it can also be expensive. Developing safety programs internally instead of outsourcing training can protect employees and financial assets. Whether you’re a business owner or manager, equipping yourself or a staff member to develop safety programs can save your company money. Alongside the financial benefits of having a team…
How to Maintain Accurate Safety Records

How to Maintain Accurate Safety Records

Maintaining safety records helps keep your organization legally compliant and builds a culture where every employee returns home safely each day. Safety records rarely make headlines unless something goes wrong, but when an accident happens, they provide critical information. They can reveal emerging patterns linked to workplace dangers, and lives can be saved when action…
OSHA Recordkeeping Requirements

OSHA Recordkeeping Requirements

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) covers standards for safe and healthy workplaces in the United States. It establishes regulations, performs inspections, conducts training and education, and works with state agencies and other industry regulators. OSHA also establishes safety recordkeeping requirements to track and monitor workplace accidents in various industries. Learn more about OSHA…

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Safety from the Shadows

Safety from the Shadows

05.15.2019 Compliance
The Problem of Informal Social Power in Industrial Safety Safety is about good intentions. What nobler goal could there be…
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Causes, Costs of Injuries in 8 Industries

Causes, Costs of Injuries in 8 Industries

05.14.2019 Compliance
The 2019 Liberty Mutual Workplace Safety Index is more specific than in previous years. This year’s index, for the first…
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Locking Out Decision Fatigue

Locking Out Decision Fatigue

05.07.2019 Compliance
If you wanted to summarize the safety profession for a layperson, you would do well to start with lockout/tagout (LOTO)…
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DOT HAZMAT Shipping Key Definitions

DOT HAZMAT Shipping Key Definitions

04.30.2019 Compliance
What are the DOT HAZMAT Shipping Key Definitions? Dangerous goods: Interchangeable with the term “hazardous materials” and mainly used in…
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Controlling Hazardous Energy with Lockout/Tagout—Common Challenges and Best Practices

Controlling Hazardous Energy with Lockout/Tagout—Common Challenges and Best Practices

04.23.2019 Compliance
We have found that only about 10 percent of companies run effective lockout programs. In fact, we have observed that…
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Temporary structure, permanent safety

Temporary structure, permanent safety

04.17.2019 Compliance
Help keep employees safe during all stages of scaffolding work On a November day in 1994, a 60-year-old painter foreman…
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Trenching and excavation safety

Trenching and excavation safety

04.12.2019 Compliance
Proper protective systems, competent person key to incident prevention George Kennedy can recall multiple incidents involving unprotected workers and trench…
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Training Improves Hazard Recognition by Workers

Training Improves Hazard Recognition by Workers

04.11.2019 Compliance
Workers who are trained on the concept of “visual literacy” are able to spot workplace hazards that might go unnoticed,…
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HAZWOPER Train-the-Trainer

HAZWOPER Train-the-Trainer

04.11.2019 Compliance
This past week, students from across the country traveled to Wilmington, NC to complete a challenging and exciting HAZWOPER 40-Hour…
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DOT HAZMAT Specialist

DOT HAZMAT Specialist

04.11.2019 Compliance
Daily, there are more than 800,000 hazmat shipments made across the United States! It’s no surprise that with such a…
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Update training on OSHA’s new fall protection rules

Update training on OSHA’s new fall protection rules

04.09.2019 Compliance
Focus on walking surfaces and fixed ladders Experienced employers — from industrial safety managers to construction supervisors — keep a…
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Complying with OSHA’s Updated Walking-Working Surfaces Rule

Complying with OSHA’s Updated Walking-Working Surfaces Rule

04.02.2019 Compliance
Late last year, OSHA published new standards for walking-working surfaces and fall protection in general industry workplaces. The updated standards…
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