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Cleaning

Should we use something sweet to clean industrial facilities?

Robert Kravitz
June 22, 2022

Many industrial facility administrators have traditionally turned to powerful cleaning solutions. While all of these products and many more have proven their value over the years in helping to keep industrial facilities clean, their big failing is that we now know these traditional cleaning solutions can harm the user, as well as the environment. 


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Healthcare workers

How supply chain management in healthcare can save lives

Devin Partida
June 22, 2022

Arecent analysis found that 30% of medical facilities still struggle to obtain enough supplies with each new variant of the virus. Inadequate supplies coupled with inflation have shed even more light on the supply chain’s role in saving lives.


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heat stress

What OSHA’s National Emphasis Program means for employers

Tom Sumner, CIH, CSP, CHMM Warren J. Guillot, Jr., CSP
June 16, 2022

OSHA is forming a National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health Heat Injury and Illness Prevention Work Group to provide better understanding of challenges and to identify and share best practices to protect workers. What does this mean for employers?


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How to manage fatigue in the real world

The following is a summary of a worldwide SafeConnection Expert Panel Webinar
Mackenzie Wilson
May 25, 2022
Whether we like it or not, fatigue is a part of our lives. But what should we do about it — especially at the workplace?
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Workers play a greater role in managing risks

How the rise of the remote workforce affects management

Devin Partida
May 17, 2022

A flexible workplace allows employees to decide when and where they want to perform their work. The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the workforce and the trend of flexible work is becoming more and more mainstream. Flexible work will likely persist even in the post-pandemic era.


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Invest in workers to prevent absenteeism, cut operating costs

Preventative training is essential when there is risk of workplace injury
Anina-Marie Warrener
May 17, 2022

Expenses are an unavoidable reality and the cost of doing business. The trick is to pick the right things to spend money on, to maximize revenue and minimize cost. In the post-COVID era absenteeism has skyrocketed in many industries, becoming a key focus for executives who want to bring down costs. 



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Earth Day

How climate change might influence workers’ health and safety

Treven Pyles
April 22, 2022

Workers are frequently the first to be exposed to the effects of climate change, and they are exposed for longer periods of time and at higher intensities than the broader population. Given this, when it comes to climate change adverse effects on workers, such as disease or injury, may be among the first indicators of the health effects of climate change on the general public. 


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heat stress

Secretary Walsh, VP Harris announce national program to protect workers from heat hazards

April 14, 2022

For the first time, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has launched a National Emphasis Program to protect millions of workers from heat illness and injuries. Through the program, OSHA will conduct heat-related workplace inspections before workers suffer completely preventable injuries, illnesses or, even worse, fatalities.


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Extreme heat

Extreme heat affects workers in many ways, both long- and short-term

John Heniff
April 14, 2022
Dripping beads of sweat and getting a sunburn aren’t the only signs you’ve been spending too much time in the sun. New research shows the effects of heat and humidity are more far-reaching and affect more body systems than we realized.
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risk management constructs

How employees and organizations can overcome adversity to better handle chronic illness and trauma

Christy Maes Cory Worden M.S., CSHM
April 14, 2022
Within risk management constructs, external risk is as equally valid as internal risk. Natural disasters, external hazardous materials releases, and workplace violence from outside the organization can harm employees and affect organizational operations as much or more than inter-workplace hazards.
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