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Inspect FR clothing for wear & tear

Repair or replace?

January 1, 2020

Flame-resistant (FR) doesn’t last forever. Since FR clothing can be expensive to replace, it’s usually best to repair these garments whenever possible. But if your FR clothing is beyond repair, your only choice will be to replace these garments.

Material handling hazards

Address lifting, moving equipment & cranes

Mark H. Stromme

January 1, 2020

Material handling consists of the moving, handling, and storing of materials in a facility using manual force, employee-operated equipment (forklifts), and automated equipment (conveyors). The handling and storing of materials inside a facility includes activities like:

Six must-have features to protect lone workers

Lifeline to safety

Tae-Yeon Won

January 1, 2020

On a Tuesday afternoon, you send a maintenance contractor out to a remote station to perform a routine check on some of your equipment. Your contractor drives out to the nearest access road, parks his truck, and walks over to the site. When he gets there, his personal gas monitor alerts him to high levels of dangerous gases...

New Year’s Resolutions to improve safety at your workplace

January 1, 2020

Lose weight. Quit smoking. Finally finish that home repair to-do list. A new year is perceived by many as an opportunity to make changes that will lead to positive changes in one’s health, relationships, environment, etc. The start of a new year is also a good time for safety professionals to take stock of the safety status quo at their company, and find ways to fix problems or to take the company’s safety culture to the next level.

Puerto Rico manufacturer improves workplace safety, stays OSHA SHARP

December 27, 2019

A small mattress manufacturing operation in Puerto Rico has succeeded in updating and improving work practices, improving machine guarding, increasing employee participation in safety and health activities, and improving the safety and health management system already in place at the site with help from Puerto Rico Consultation Services, which performs local assessments and consults as part of federal OSHA’s On-Site Consultation Program.

2020 Top Standards: ANSI/ISEA

ANSI/ISEA 121- Dropped Object Prevention Solutions

December 20, 2019

ANSI/ISEA 121-2018 is a standard that consists of design, testing, performance and labeling requirements for tool tethering systems and containers used to transport and secure tools and equipment at heights.

Preventing falls from flatbed trucks

J. Nigel Ellis, Ph.D., P.E., CSP, CPE

December 19, 2019

Visual Literacy and Serious Injury and Fatality Prevention

Join us for a complimentary webinar

December 12, 2019

The Center for Visual Expertise (COVE) will discuss the relationship between visual literacy and serious injury and fatality (SIF) prevention. Many companies today have embraced the research that has revealed that simply mitigating incident potential at the bottom of the Heinrich safety pyramid will not ensure the mitigation of SIFs.

Brought to you by ORCHSE Strategies, LLC and Muschara Error Management Consulting

Foundations of Human & Organizational Performance

2-DAY TRAINING COURSE coming in January!!

December 12, 2019

If you are new to human and organizational performance (HOP) or are looking to strengthen your knowledge of the foundational principles of HOP, this is the course for you. Human performance – your people – introduce uncertainty into work.