Workplace Training Strategies - Articles - Page 132

According to OSHA, jobs with shift work, high stress, and exposure to certain chemicals and electrical hazards increase the risks of heart disease and cardiac arrest.

Meetings should do more than inform

Give employees “voice and choice” to focus on risks

Bob Veazie

December 4, 2013

Twitter recently traded for the first time (IPO) on the New York Stock Exchange.

New generation safety software improves training results

Marc Resnick

December 4, 2013

Software has gone through a fundamental shift over the past decade or so.

Electrical workers are creatures of habit, too

December 2, 2013

Adapting to the safe work practices of NFPA 70E likely means some major changes in how your electrical workers have done things in the past. Your electrical workers likely didn’t think twice about opening an energized 480 volt electrical panel. Now with standards in place, they must first determine arc flash hazard levels, PPE, safety boundaries and fill out an energized work permit.

Verizon agrees to step up safety training after worker electrocuted

Company reaches settlement with Labor Dept.

November 18, 2013

Telecommunications giant Verizon has agreed to provide enhanced electrical safety training to its New York field technicians, following the fatal electrocution of a worker in Brooklyn on Sept. 14, 2011.

Electrical safety training Q&A

November 14, 2013

Ron Spataro, Director of Marketing, and Steve Foutch, Vice President sales and Operations, both of AVO Training Institute, Dallas, TX (www.avotraining.com) (877-594-3156; 214-330-3522) answer questions from ISHN magazine about electrical safety training.