Every year there are about 2.8 million non-fatal workplace accidents with the most common injuries being sprains, strains, and tears; and the highest cause to be overexertion; slips, trips, falls, and contact with objects and equipment.
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OSHA NEP Focused on Reducing Heat-Related Illness
Heat illness affects thousands of indoor and outdoor workers every year. Often, it can lead to death of a worker. Reducing heat-related illnesses and injuries is a top
Preparedness Training
Have your employees – at all levels – been trained what to do when there is an emergency situation or a disruption of business operations?
Is Your Business Safe & Sound?
Did you know that implementing a safety and health program can improve not only a business’ safety and health performance, but it can help save money and improve your competitiveness?
Importance of Workplace Safety Training
Workplace safety training, why is it important?
Being in compliance with OSHA and your state health and safety authorities provides the foundation for your safety training program,
Top Causes of Work-Related Injuries
In 2018,
• There were a total of 4,493 injury-related deaths that were preventable
• Construction was the industry sector with the largest number of preventable fatal injuries with the next two being transportation and warehousing
Workplace Fatigue: Safety & Health on the Job
A series of National Safety Council reports states that 13 percent of workplace injuries are attributable to fatigue.
Safety Walk-arounds
Safety walk-arounds are an excellent way for management to demonstrate commitment to improving the safety of the organization. These inspections put them in the field to observe work in progress,
Safe + Sound: Do you have a workplace safety and health program?
Every year, more than 5,000 workers are killed on the job (a rate of 14 per day), and more than 3.6 million suffer a serious job-related injury or illness.
Powered Industrial Truck Safety Training
When it comes to OSHA training requirements standards, the powered industrial truck safety training requirements provide us with an extremely effective model to follow.