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Lifting-related back injuries are among the most commonly reported workplace injuries. They also cost big bucks and a lot of lost productivity. Here’s a four-step safe lifting plan that can help prevent lifting-related back injuries in your workplace. 1. Implement Engineering Controls Appropriate engineering controls can be highly effective in reducing lifting-related injuries. For example: […]
Job hazard analysis is a time-tested way to identify and correct job hazards. It’s simple, it works with any job, and it gets the results you need to create a safer workplace. Most simply put, job hazard analysis (JHA) breaks jobs into basic steps, identifies the hazards associated with each step, and prescribes controls for […]
The Safety Daily Advisor® announced today the release of a free white paper for safety professionals, Proven Strategies To Increase The Value of EHS, which will help safety professionals to use the tools of business managers to effectively measure the performance of their programs “The value of EHS functions in an organization’s overall performance is […]
Here are six steps you can take to improve workplace safety and better protect employees from injuries and illness. The risk management firm PMA Companies has recently released a report entitled Six Steps to a Safer Workforce: Building Accountability as an Essential Element for Injury Prevention in the Healthcare Industry. The document urges employers to […]
Guest Post by: David Galt Senior Legal Editor Business & Legal Resources, Inc. There’s been a lot of discussion and concern voiced about OSHA’s proposal to require many businesses to create a formal injury and illness prevention program. Perhaps it would be a good idea to look at the states that already require certain businesses […]
Emergency preparedness is critical in the workplace and may be one of the first things you cover when training new employees. But it’s also a good idea to give workers practical safety information for home weather emergencies, too. Being prepared for weather emergencies can make a big difference in the impact such an event makes […]
Find out how the safety director of a small company manages to deliver quality, cost-effective training that lives up to the company slogan Safety Always. For Jerry McGlynn, safety director for McWilliams Electric Co., bringing training in-house was a strategic decision. The family-owned business of about 90 employees calculated what it was spending to send […]
What are the two most important parts of a safety training session? According to one safety consultant, they’re the opener and the closer. When it comes to openers and closers, safety consultant Linda Tapp urges trainers to keep in mind the law of primary and “recency.” Trainees are going to remember what you do first […]
Yesterday, we answered questions from safety professionals about OSHA reportable injuries. Today, we conclude with a couple more questions and more information about how you can become a Safety.BLR.com subscriber and get all your safety questions answered. A. Based on the OSHA excerpt from a letter of interpretation below, this case appears to be an […]
Even the most experienced safety professionals sometimes have questions about OSHA requirements. Here are some questions recently received by safety experts at Safety.BLR.com. Q. If an employee is seen by a doctor and the only treatment was administering oxygen, would this be recordable under OSHA’s recordkeeping requirements? A. Administering oxygen is considered medical treatment and […]