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Electricity has long been recognized as a serious workplace hazard, exposing employees to electric shock, electrocution, burns, fires and explosions.

If you were to hold a depression recognition screening day in your workplace, how many employees do you think would show up?

This month I provide the final three steps in the PuMP process.1

Violations related to electrical hazards led to 2,192 citations (from 1,681 OSHA inspections) and a total of $2,817,950 in penalties in 2014, making 1910.303 the eighth most frequently cited standard, according to the agency.

NFPA 70E®, Standard for Electrical Safety in the Workplace, is an indispensable, ongoing work in progress.

Pedestrian injuries and deaths are alarmingly high — especially among kids, teenagers and seniors.

Global mobile devices and connections in 2013 grew to seven billion, up from 6.5 billion in 2012, according to the Cisco Visual Networking index

Last month I covered the first two steps in Stacey Barr’s Performance Measurement Process, which she refers to as the PuMP process.1

The advance of safety technologies is most evident in the cars we drive in everyday life or for work.

I was on a business trip, having completed a safety training session with managers and associates in an industrial plant the previous day.