In addition to identifying what types or categories of shoes/boots should be worn in your workplace, provide employees an avenue to obtain the proper footwear to help ensure compliance and improve safety.
There are few hard and fast rules regarding protective footwear in the workplace, but enough potential liabilities exist to make research into the various types of safety footwear well worth the time and effort.
In enclosed areas such as parking garages, potentially lethal concentrations of CO can build up quickly — before exposed individuals have any indication of danger. The issue is not whether CO may reach hazardous concentrations, but rather how to control and ventilate it when it does.
Emergency response assets, including drench showers and eyewashes, must not only be made available, but these facilities require cooling of the water that flows through them to avoid inflicting potentially worse injuries on users.
Every minute of every day, sudden cardiac arrest claims another victim, according to the American Red Cross. Are you prepared if an SCA occurs on your site?
To be held in Chicago in mid-October, this year's NSC Congress & Expo will include the National Safety Council’s annual meeting, the 2nd Annual Hispanic Safety & Health Congress, technical sessions, professional development seminars, and the exposition.
We don’t learn to drive by only reading manuals and watching videos. We learn, and become good at it, by practicing. The same is true for fall protection training — in addition to classroom time, there needs to be hands-on education.
Is it OK to use an iPod at work? The debate grows as iPods become more popular. While some employers ban iPods, others encourage their use to reduce stress or boredom.
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