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Do you have the resources and the qualified personnel to accomplish your training goals in-house? Our Safety Training Tips editor says that you may find that after analyzing your company’s training needs you don’t have the best training materials or most qualified personnel in house. There are a variety of reasons why you might decide […]
Want to know what employees think about the safety of their work environment? A survey is a good way to find out. Here’s a sample employee work environment survey that you can use it as is or adapt to include specific workplace safety and health issues. Work Environment Survey Instructions: Please answer the following questions […]
Read about a geographically diverse company that’s surmounted the challenge of maintaining a consistent, effective safety and health program. Progress Energy, headquartered in Raleigh, NC, operates coal and gas facilities, plus nuclear, fossil, and hydroelectric plants in geographically dispersed areas. This diversity presents challenges to the company’s safety and health program, says Executive Director of […]
Although overall rates of workplace violence have declined in the past decade, homicides associated with customers and clients have increased. Employees who deal with the public are especially at risk. Johnny Lee, founder of Peace at Work, a nonprofit organization that focuses on violence prevention "in and through the workplace," notes a growing risk for […]
Talking about violence in the workplace can be an uncomfortable process. But it is also unavoidable if you want to do all you can to eliminate the threat of violence from your establishment. Why not approach employee reluctance to talk about violence head-on? Here are seven common expressions of resistance—along with reasons why the discussion […]
This month we continue assessing your various training options to help you put together the right mix of blended learning to ensure your workers are the best trained they can be. There are numerous methods and materials available to help you prepare and equip employees to better do their jobs. Nail gun injuries are all […]
In addition to training your workers to take general workplace security steps, you can also inform them of the types of violence more likely to occur in your workplace so that they can be more specifically on the lookout for such occurrences—and be prepared to deal with them. According to the National Institute for Occupational […]
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s directive establishing a policy to purge Agency science advisory committees of members who are receiving EPA monetary grants has spurred a strong reaction from environmental and public health groups. In the latest development, several groups have sued Pruitt for allegedly violating provisions in federal statutes that direct formation of the committees […]
Yesterday, we introduced you to the employee-driven strategies the safety folks at Tropicana are using to energize their safety effort. Today, we’ll focus on some of their other notable safety programs. Among other notable compliance and protection programs in place at Tropicana’s City of Industry plant in California are these: Behavior observation. All employees and […]
Scaffolds provide necessary access to certain jobs—and require necessary training to work on them safely. OSHA general industry standard on scaffolds (29 CFR 1910.28-29) emphasize specifications that are very precise about everything from the spacing of the poles to the size of the planking. No matter what its type, a scaffold has to be strong […]