A pile of workplace safety equipment including a yellow hard hat, clear plastic goggles, and durable leather workers gloves. These pieces of equipment are international symbols of occupational safety. In most construction and industrial work environments across the globe, these are the most basic pieces of safety equipment that minimize the possibility of an accident.
The main responsibility for worker safety falls into the hands of the employer and the government agencies like OSHA who setup laws and regulations the employers must follow and enforce. The employers are required to put forth the effort and are responsible for employee training and education of safety procedures. Everyday job duties can become …
The Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health has notified 14,000 employers nationwide that their injury and illness rates are considerably higher than the national average. In a letter sent this month to those employers, Assistant Secretary Edwin G. Foulke, Jr. explained that the notification was a proactive step to encourage employers to …
