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Safety is a process, and as such, needs to be managed. This section offers resources to create a viable safety program, sell it to senior management, train supervisors and employees in using it, and then track and report your progress. Look also for ways to advance your own skills in these areas, both for your current job, and those that follow.
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If your safety program is a rambling, hit or miss proposition that focuses on many different violations, safety meetings will soon turn into boring sessions that turn everyone off. If you’ve been loading your safety meetings with generalities such as “Watch Your Housekeeping” or “Be Careful With Tools,” and you seem to get little or […]
With summer quickly approaching, it’s time once again to thing about hot weather safety. Hot temperatures can have a debilitating effect on your employees who work outside or in hot environments, such as bakeries, laundries, and foundries. These conditions can be hazardous to their safety and health. Here is a safety talk that can provide […]
Many times a supervisor faces serious obstacles (real or imagined) to attaining a good safety record for his or her department. Here are some of the excuses supervisors commonly given along with some solutions: Employees are people with certain specific functions to perform, but they are not machines—they’re people with feelings and emotions. People like […]
Meet the 2011 Safe-in-Sound Award winners and find out what they do to protect their employees’ hearing. The Safe-in-Sound Excellence and Innovation in Hearing Loss Prevention Awards™ honor excellent hearing loss prevention practices in the work environment. Applicants are evaluated against key performance indicators in a review process designed to evaluate hearing loss prevention programs […]
Many times a supervisor faces serious obstacles (real or imagined) to attaining a good safety record for his or her department. Here are some of the excuses supervisors commonly given along with some solutions: I can’t stand over each subordinate all the time! You don’t have to. Workers often repeat the same unsafe practice many […]
Review answers to key questions about workplace hearing conservation program requirements. What is the purpose of noise monitoring? OSHA’s Occupational Noise Exposure Standard (29 CFR 1910.95) requires you to place employees in a hearing conservation program if they are exposed to average noise levels of 85 dB or greater during an 8-hour workday. In order […]
All machines need some greasing from time to time. The lubrication of bearings, wear points, and moving parts are an essential factor in proper machine maintenance. But, there are serious risks if safety procedures are not followed. The most common hazard is getting caught in moving parts while oiling the machines. This problem is due […]
Yesterday, we reviewed some of the basics for machine operation area safety. Today, we conclude with three additional requirements—training, PPE, and preparing for fires and medical emergencies. The machines in your workplace are hard workers. But they’re only machines. They can only do the grunt work. They can’t think. It’s your human workers who have […]
Machine operation areas differ from workplace to workplace. But all these areas share basic hazards and require vigilant oversight. When OSHA inspected the production area in a manufacturing plant, the compliance officer cited the company for 36 violations. Violations ranged from unguarded machines to electrical hazards. On appeal, the Review Commission upheld all of the […]
The Safety Daily Advisor announced today the release of a free report for Safety Managers, OSHA’s Crane Rule: What You Need to Know. This report will be available for a limited time to help safety managers understand the new rules that apply to employers and other entities in control of crane and derrick equipment during […]