This will help reduce injury costs & improve morale
Culture is often succinctly defined as “the way we do things†within an organization. Safety culture is often described as the organization's norms, beliefs, roles and attitudes toward safety that are focused on preventing work-related injuries.
3 keys to motivate workers to use hearing protection
The best way to protect your hearing from hazardous noise exposure is to consistently use hearing protectors around loud noise.†This may sound like a basic instruction to most people, but to an employee who has experienced hearing loss due to noise exposure, this same instruction, if given audibly, may sound like this: “Da be way oo roec your hearing rom haardu noi eboer i oo onidindly oo hearing roecer around loud noi.â€
I am haunted by four recent unfortunate events. One is a catastrophe reported nationwide by the media, another is an incident which is big news in our local newspapers, and the other two misfortunes are not known publicly, but traumatic all the same.
A week after the bodies of the 12 miners were pulled from the Sago mine in West Virginia, Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY) announced he would convene an oversight hearing into mine safety practices and enforcement.
Do you notice that nearly all consultants or EHS professionals writing for ISHN have letters (acronyms for titles) after their name? If you want to advance in the EHS field, you’ll need letters after your name, too.
How to achieve employee “buy-in,â€control costs and avoid waste
Don’t you hate to wear gloves? I know I do. When cold weather comes I put my gloves in my coat pocket, but unless it’s awfully cold I never use them. I think it is because even the best gloves seem bulky. Did you ever try to switch a car radio station while wearing gloves? It doesn’t work too well.
As long as there are eye hazards in the workplace there will always be a need for emergency eyewash protection, both in terms of meeting the legal requirements established by OSHA and for practical emergency first-aid.
Of all the personal protective equipment workers use, safety footwear is probably worn more hours of the day than any other type of PPE. Once you slip on and lace up safety boots or shoes, you may wear them for eight, 12, 16 or more hours before taking them off. This is why having the right footwear for the job is critical to your safety and the prevention of injuries.
A Virginia businessman has been sentenced to five months in jail, followed by five months home detention and three years supervised release, according to U.S. Newswire.
Thousands of West Virginia miners got safety lectures at the start of their shifts, and officials began a round of inspections across the No. 2 coal-producing state Thursday, Feb. 2, in a "timeout" urged by the governor, according to the Associated Press.
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