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After deadly week, NYC worker advocates demand better safety training

April 17, 2019

A coalition of New York City labor organizations is holding a protest today about safety training inadequacies in the city, particularly for immigrant workers. The protest comes on the heels of a particularly deadly week in the city’s construction industry, which saw three immigrant workers killed in incidents at three different worksites.

A confined spaces analysis

Learn how to define spaces, reclassify them, and five life-saving principles to minimize hazards

Robert "Scott" Goodwin, CHST

April 17, 2019

We have all read the articles or posts on the questions regarding confined spaces such as “What is a confined space?” or “What makes your confined space permit required?” You might have even been asked “How do you re-classify a permit-required confined space?” or one of my favorites, “When do I need a rescue team at my confined space?” Let’s break it all down.

3 P’s of Welding Safety: Planning, preparation and protection

Keep these hot tips in mind to improve welding safety – and stay out of hot water

Dennis Capizzi

April 12, 2019

Welding — one of the OSHA-defined “hot work” activities — is a major task in many industries. You’ll find it performed in manufacturing, fabrication, and repair work. In fact, anywhere two or more materials must be joined together, welding will likely be present.

Worker safety tips: The power of empowerment

M.B. Sutherland

April 11, 2019

The employee empowerment process is something we usually see discussed in the pages of Forbes or Bloomberg Businessweek, but empowerment is just as important for you and your workers as it is for the C-Suite. In fact, given that safety is on the line, it may be even more important. We’ve spoken to safety managers in various industries about how they empower their workers.

New Pig offers free trial training courses

April 10, 2019

New Pig, the number one brand that helps companies manage leaks, drips and spills to protect workers, facilities and the environment now offers free trial training courses on a variety of subjects. New Pig understands the value of employees’ time, and has designed training courses specifically built for attention, flexibility, ease of understanding and original content. And the first lesson is on them– risk free and no purchase necessary.

Celebrate Workers’ Memorial Day every day

Take a strong stand, fight, and let’s celebrate life, not death and injury.

Ron Hayes

April 8, 2019

Workers' Memorial Day, International Workers 'Memorial Day or International Commemoration Day (ICD) for Dead and Injured or Day of Mourning takes place annually around the world on April 28, an international day of remembrance and action for workers killed, disabled, injured or made unwell by their work.

Quick fixes for organizational improvements are an illusion

Culture change is not easy. It takes time, hard work, discipline and patience.

Josh Williams PhD

April 8, 2019

DuPont Sustainable Solutions launches ‘Environment Matters’ training series

Training series presents straight-forward overviews of major environmental regulations

April 8, 2019

DuPont Sustainable Solutions has launched a new training series, Environment Matters, which presents straight-forward overviews of major environmental regulations. “The format of Environment Matters is based on the success of our Safety Matters series,” said Chris Scaglione, Product Manager, Learning & Development, DuPont Sustainable Solutions. “Safety Matters discusses core safety topics in 10 minutes or less.

Fall protection training from Malta Dynamics

April 4, 2019

Did you know that Fall Protection Training citations are on the rise? OSHA cited 1,978 companies for failure to properly train their teams in 2018, up from 1,728 citations in 2017. Malta Dynamics has you covered with three different safety training programs to meet your needs at any level:

New AVO training location in Houston, Texas!

March 26, 2019

To better serve our customers and students, AVO Training Institute has added an additional training location. The new training location is located at Powell Electrical Systems in Houston, Texas and will be hosting a variety of different AVO electrical maintenance and electrical safety training courses.