Category: Back to Basics

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

Back to Basics: Reducing Your Carbon Footprint

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 businesses can reduce their carbon footprint. As more businesses get up to speed with environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiatives, one of the basic steps involved in working on the […]

Back to Basics: Contractor and Temporary Worker 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 contractor and temporary worker safety. Many workplaces are staffed by workers with different employers—a host company, contractors, and staffing agencies. If you own or operate a facility, you have complete responsibility for […]

Back to Basics: How the Government Tracks Injuries, Illnesses, Fatalities

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 workplace injuries, illnesses, and fatalities are tracked by the federal government. The Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) collect and disseminate […]

Back to Basics: Best of 2024

As the year comes to a close, we’re taking a look back at some of our highlights from 2024. Today, we’re sharing some of our favorite Back to Basics articles from this year. How’s Your Powered Industrial Truck Compliance? You need to be mindful of the hazards posed by forklifts and other powered industrial trucks […]

Back to Basics: Extreme Winter Weather 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 readiness for extreme winter weather hazards. The Atlantic and Eastern North Pacific hurricane seasons just ended on November 30, and the first day of winter is December 21. In its U.S. […]

Back to Basics: The Costs of Slip, Trip, and Fall 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 the costs of slip, trip, and fall hazards. Did you know slips, trips, and falls cost American employers billions of dollars every year? In its 2024 Workplace Safety Index (WSI), insurer Liberty […]

Back to Basics: A Look at Construction’s ‘Fatal Four’ Safety 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 the most dangerous construction safety hazards. Are you familiar with the construction industry’s deadliest safety hazards? The “fatal four” or “focus four” safety hazards are caught-in/-between hazards, electrocution, falls, and struck-by […]

Back to Basics: The Costs of Safety Failures

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 costs of safety failures. The failure to put safety protections in place can be costly, resulting in large Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) fines, injuries, illnesses, and fatalities, as well […]

Back to Basics: Indoor Air and Preparing for Winter Respiratory Disease Season

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 the upcoming winter respiratory disease season. Now that fall has arrived, are you ready for this year’s winter respiratory disease season? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention […]

Back to Basics: Measuring the Safety Climate of Your Organization

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 measure the safety climate of your organization. As we celebrate Safety Culture Week, let’s look at measuring safety climate and how it impacts safety culture. Whereas safety culture broadly […]