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Choosing a Hard Hat? Use Your Head

You’re an industrial safety professional. You encourage using the right PPE. You know the value of protecting workers from injury — head to toe. Think about this for a minute: the head is about one-seventh of a body’s total height, but it’s the nerve center for everything done on the job site. Your eyes, your …

What is Arc Flash? Answering The Common NFPA 70E Basics

“Anything That Can Go Wrong Will Go Wrong” – Murphy’s LawBelieved to only be a rare event, arc flash can happen to any employee at any point when dealing with electrical equipment or machinery. The right conditions can cause a catastrophic event. It’s important employees and employers understand what arc flash is, how it happens, …

The Impact of the Subconscious on Risk-Based Decision Making

Although the United States and other industrial countries continue to invest heavily in enterprise-wide safety interventions to decrease workplace injuries, there always is room for safety improvement, even among the most mature organizations. Historically, organizations have made substantial investments in the anticipation and elimination of incidents, specifically in the areas of prevention, process and systems …

Safety & The Human Factor

The human factor in regards to workplace is important to consider when implementing safety initiatives at all workplaces. As the infographic suggests, “Human factors” refer to the environmental, organizational. job factors and individual characteristics that influence behavior at work in a way that affect health and safety”. It then goes into specifics about the human …

Superstition Based Safety? by Phil LaDuke

Does this sound familiar: You do what all the experts say, you read articles on how the world’s safest companies, or you come back from a conference ready to implement the hot safety tool? But instead of creating your safety Utopia your efforts fall flat. You end up doing all the right things but—far from …

Record Number of Criminal Prosecutions for Worker Deaths

In Fiscal Year 2014, the U.S. Department of Labor referred or assisted with the criminal prosecution of 27 cases involving worker deaths – the highest number in DOL’s history. However, since there were more than 4,000 worker deaths during the same period, criminal prosecution in such cases is still very rare. These statistics were highlighted …

Contractor: My Competitors Have Waged an OSHA War

A roofing contractor says competing companies have started an “OSHA war” by reporting violations by their competitors. He says he now has no choice but to “stoop to their level.” This all started with the most recent fines issued by OSHA to Tip Top Roofing & Construction, based in Sycamore, IL, in connection with a …

Three workers crushed in tragic tractor rollovers

Related Construction Equipment Training DVDs: Backhoe Operations for Public Works Training Video Backhoe Operations for Public Works program focuses on the safe operation of backhoes. View Product Front End Loader Safety DVD This program will concentrate on the basic safe operations for the standard front-end loader. View Product Forklift Workshop for Construction Training DVD Helps …

OSHA Unveils New Version of its Required Workplace Poster

The last time OSHA updated the “It’s the Law” poster was in 2007. Now the agency is out with a new version that incorporates new injury reporting obligations for employers. The new poster informs workers of their right to: request an OSHA inspection of their workplace participate in an OSHA inspection and speak privately with …