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Before and After Workplace Violence: What OSHA Recommends
These strategies can help you manage workplace violence risks to prevent violent incidents as well as deal effectively with aftermath of an incident. One-sixth of violent crimes occur in the workplace, according to OSHA. There are over half a million incidents each year. What’s more, violence is the second leading cause of workplace deaths. Three […]
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Keep Violence Out with Effective Prevention Strategies
With so much talk about guns and violence, it natural that employers are giving more thought than usual to workplace violence. Here are some prevention tips from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, which has had to deal with its share of workplace violence over the years. OSHA defines workplace violence is any act or […]
Looming SPCC Deadline
Under SPCC, a farm is defined as "a facility on a tract of land devoted to the production of crops or raising of animals, including fish, which produced and sold, or normally would have produced and sold, $1,000 or more of agricultural products during a year." SPCC applies to a farm that: Stores, transfers, uses, […]
Control the Power of Your Lockout/Tagout Training
Authorized employees who service or maintain machinery and equipment need special training on lockout/tagout procedures. Today’s Advisor includes a training exercise that you can use to help train your workers. The information in today’s issue comes from BLR’s PowerPoint® presentation, "Lockout/Tagout—Authorized Employee Training." The objective of the following exercise is to evaluate authorized employees’ understanding […]
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ATV Safety at Work: Preventing Deadly Accidents
Work-related ATV injuries are on the rise. Forty-one workers were killed using ATVs in one recent year. According to OSHA, the primary reasons for All-Terrain Vehicle (ATV) accidents in work situations involve: Unbalanced loads and loads in excess of the ATV’s specified limits (especially overloading the rear cargo rack) Operating at excessive speeds for the […]
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