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A Course on Corrosives

Corrosives eating away at safety in your workplace? Today’s Advisor gives you a course on corrosives to help you train employees to work safely with these chemicals Background for trainer: OSHA’s hazard communication standard requires you to train employees to work safely with the hazardous chemicals in their work area when they’re initially assigned to […]

Assign PPE? Not Before a Hazard Assessment You Don’t!

OSHA requires a thorough hazard assessment before PPE is selected and assigned to employees. Find out more. If you were a NFL coach, you wouldn’t send your team out on the field without helmets and shoulder pads. If you were a NASA manager, you wouldn’t send an astronaut for a space walk without a space […]

PPE Maker Opens Houston Facility to See, Touch, and Try Products

Honeywell, which manufactures PPE, fire alarm systems, and other products, has opened a $3 million facility to demonstrate their safety products and systems and train people to use them. Honeywell Life Safety President Mark Levy says the company chose Houston for its new safety product showcase because of its concentration of global oil and gas, […]

New White Paper Touts Leading Indicators

Find out how to use leading indicators to improve safety performance and prevent accidents and injuries. Metrics like OSHA recordable injuries and workers’ comp expenses—known as trailing or lagging indicators—tell you what happened and how much it cost. But they don’t indicate how well you’re doing at preventing accidents. A new white paper tells safety […]

Accident Prevention Through Design

Save money and prevent workplace injuries right from the drawing board—that’s the principle behind “Prevention Through Design.” When OSHA first implemented the lockout/tagout standard in 1989, employers protested that compliance would be difficult and require extensive retrofitting because many pieces of industrial equipment had hazardous energy sources that were not “capable of being locked out.” […]