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September 18 2017

Safety Differently, Incident Reporting, and Incident Investigations: More with…

This is the second of our three articles with Ron Gantt focusing on Safety Differently. If you missed our earlier Introduction to Safety Differently, click that link you just passed up. We also have another article on Safety Differently and…

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September 9 2017

OSHA Hazard Communication Standard and Program

When the Hazard Communication Standard (HCS) was published by OSHA in 1983, it represented a decade of painstaking, but vital, rulemaking activity. More than thirty years have elapsed since the rule was published. And yet, HCS remains one of the…

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August 11 2017

Field Inspection App – Mobile Inspection Software by IndustrySafe

The Vector EHS Management Software team is excited to announce that we have developed a mobile field inspection app capable of conducting EHS inspections! Complimentary to the desktop version of our inspection software, the Vector EHS Mobile Inspection App offers numerous…

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August 8 2017

What Is Safety Differently? An Interview with Ron Gantt

If you’ve been paying attention to the safety and health world lately, you may know about “Safety Differently.” For example, there’s a safety differently website devoted to the topic. In addition, the plenary topic at the recent ASSE Safety 2017…

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July 23 2017

OSHA Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Standards and Requirements

Many years ago, before the PPE Final Rule, OSHA determined that there were an extensive number of injuries related to workers not wearing effective personal protective equipment. In fact, in the Preamble to the Final Rule, OSHA cited various studies…

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June 7 2017

How to Get a Forklift License

Need to know how to get a forklift license? In this article, we spell out everything you need to know about getting a forklift operator’s license. We’ll keep it short and to the point, we promise. Enjoy the article and…

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May 17 2017

Fall Prevention National Safety Stand Down: Let’s Cut Fall…

Fall Prevention and Protection has been in news a lot lately. The safety news, at least. Fall prevention always generates a lot of discussions because falls are the leading cause of deaths in construction. In 2015, for example, there were…

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May 14 2017

How to Use a Fire Extinguisher – Step by…

    Hopefully, you’ll never be in a fire and so you’ll never need to know how to use a fire extinguisher. But of course, fires DO happen. According to the U.S. Fire Administration, in a recent year there were…

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May 2 2017

Is there a difference between a JHA and a…

JSA stands for “Job Safety Analysis” while JHA stands for “Job Hazard Analysis.” Most safety professionals use the terms JSA and JHA interchangeably to describe a technique for improving worker safety when completing hazardous tasks, so is there really a…

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April 25 2017

Safety Management Best Practices: OSHA’s Recommendations for Safety &…

Back in October, 2016, OSHA created a final version of their new guideline for safety and health management programs, titled Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs. Around the same time, they published a helpful website full of additional materials…

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April 5 2017

4 Industrial Safety Tips

Industrial workplaces present a variety of hazards to workers. In addition to a robust safety and health management system, a few basic safety tips can go a long way to keeping industrial workers healthy and safe. We’ve included a few…

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March 30 2017

5 Manufacturing Safety Topics for a Safer Workplace

    No matter your occupation, workplace safety is vital. However, it is especially important in the manufacturing industry since you are dealing with heavy machinery. Therefore, taking safety precautions seriously and conducting safety training is extremely important for manufacturing…

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February 16 2017

Top 5 Safety Hazards in the Manufacturing Industry

The manufacturing industry applies to many different fields and companies, encompassing everything from glass manufacturing to the plastics industry. Manufacturing businesses may have vastly different operational practices and unique safety risks. There are even specific Occupational Safety and Health Administration…

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February 15 2017

OSHA’s New Reporting Requirements: Online Injury and Illness Reporting…

[Since we originally published this article, OSHA delayed the submission deadline, established an automated notification system on March 17 to inform people about current status of online reporting, and sent out its first automated notification on May 24….scroll down a…

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January 18 2017

5 Steps of Monitoring, Evaluation, & Correcting Your OHSMS

Here’s another article in our series about occupational health and safety management systems (OHSMS). In this article, we’re going to explain what to do once you’ve implemented your OHSMS, it’s in operation, and you want to monitor it, evaluate the…