Category: OSHA & Workplace Safety
Workplace Safety at Home: Assessing Your Environment
Take a look at your home office – what might an Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) inspector see? As more organizations move to increased levels of telework, it is important for leaders to revisit their policies and practices related to home office support, and for teleworking employees to take…
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Assessing Workplace Safety in the New Normal
For many years, workplace safety leaders have looked to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for definitive guidance on workplace safety. In a COVID-19 pandemic-savvy world though, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will also be a source of useful information. Many organizations have relocated staff to…
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Emotional Intelligence and Safety
Safety leaders are strong in technical skills — hazard assessment, risk management and safety controls — but soft skills can vary widely. In fact, a common question raised in many safety workshops is “How can I get the employees to take the time to practice safety on the job?” Consider…
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OSHA Reporting Requirements 2019
June is National Workplace Safety Month! To make workplace establishments and industries safer, OSHA gathers data on injuries and fatalities. This information helps analyze industries to create standards to protect workers and prevent future accidents. OSHA launched the Injury Tracking Application (ITA) to collect this data electronically. The following employers…
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Super-cali-OSHA-listic-expi-ali-docious: A Safety Song
In 1964, Mary Poppins hit the theaters, and the word Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious was born. To commemorate it’s return to theaters, let’s have some fun with Pryor’s rendition of Super-cali-OSHA-listic-expi-ali-docious! ♫ When noise is loud, and all you hear is danger all around, Then drop those decibels, and safety soon shall…
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OSHA Ergonomics
In my former career as a facilities manager I was tasked with overseeing all of our OSHA compliance. We were a small company of forty-five employees primarily all office/desk workers. A few months after we moved into a newly built facility with all new furniture (chairs, articulating keyboard trays, etc.),…
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Four Activities to Build a Safety Culture
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has a mission to assure safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women, by setting and enforcing standards and by providing training, outreach, education and assistance (osha.gov/aboutosha). Making sure those standards are met, of course, is up to your organization. While…
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The Sounds of Safety: OSHA Headphone Use
Sound is a constant in workplace life, but noise doesn’t have to be. Given the dangers of excessive noise on worker health, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requires organizations to “administer a continuing, effective hearing conservation program.” Through its rules and regulations, OSHA lays out a number of…
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Safety Mottos that Will Make an Impact
Organizations implement many practices to protect their workers, but the best motivators for staying safe come from workers themselves. So, if you are looking for new safety slogans for 2022, consider having a safety motto contest. After all, people respond differently to different messages, so having diverse slogans and tips…
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Slips, Trips and Falls…OH MY!
Slips, trips and falls on walking working surfaces constitute the majority of general industry accidents. About 20% of all disabling occupational injuries result from falls, over 200,000 a year and 15% of all accidental deaths are attributed to slip/trip/fall incidents, second only to motor vehicles as a cause of fatalities.…
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