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September 16 2016

Best Practices for Management Leadership in an OHSMS

In this article, we’re going to look at some best practices for management leadership in your workplace occupational health and safety management system, or OHSMS. This is one of a series of articles discussing health and safety management systems. If…

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September 15 2016

9 More OSHA Compliance Requirements For General Industry

This is the second of a three-article series looking at OSHA compliance requirements for general industry employers. In our first article, we looked at six compliance requirements that OSHA believes apply to most general industry employers. In this article, we’ll…

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August 8 2016

Safety and Health Management Systems and Programs: Comparing ANSI…

  This is the second article in a longer series of articles looking at Safety and Health Management in general and at ANSI Z10, the American national standard for Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems, in particular. If you want…

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August 8 2016

Free Safety Checklists

From time to time, we make free safety checklists that you can use for safety training or audit purposes. And we put them on our blog for you to download. What’s not to like about that? But now we’ve gone…

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July 15 2016

The dangers of distracted driving

It’s not falls, fires or chemical exposure that kills workers the most on the job. OSHA reports that motor vehicle crashes are actually the leading cause of death in the workplace today. As most industries must ship or transport products across…

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July 7 2016

Safety and Health Management Standards and Guidelines: ANSI Z10,…

  Have you heard of ANSI Z10? It’s a standard about Safety and Health Management created by The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and ASSP. This is the first article in a series about ANSI Z10 and different safety management…

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March 7 2016

Tracking Training-Related EHS Leading Indicators

In a recent article on EHS leading indicators, we touched on the topic of training-related EHS leading indicators. Meaning, stuff directly related to EHS training that can be used as a leading indicator for measuring general EHS performance at a…

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January 25 2016

Medical Treatment Versus First Aid for OSHA Recordkeeping

OSHA requires companies to record work-related incidents if they involve medical treatment beyond first aid. You do NOT have to record the injury in your OSHA 300 form if you only administer first aid. As such, knowing the difference between first…

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September 29 2015

Top 4 tips to help avoid driver fatigue

Falling asleep while driving, or driver fatigue, can have dangerous consequences for the driver of the vehicle and other vehicles on the road. To avoid drowsy driving, know the signs of driver fatigue, keep yourself stimulated, eat healthy, and take short breaks…

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September 15 2015

Understanding DOT drug and alcohol testing regulations

Editor’s note: This post was originally published in September 2015 and was completely revamped and updated in July 2018 for accuracy and comprehensiveness. The Department of Transportation (DOT) mandates that all individuals employed in safety-sensitive positions within the transportation industry…

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September 2 2015

What Is a Safety and Health Management Program?

This is an older article and is based on materials OSHA created BEFORE they finalized their recent Safety and Health Management guidelines. This article still has a lot of useful information, and we encourage you to read it, but before…

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September 1 2015

Safety Tips for Construction Fall Protection & Prevention

Though construction workers face many potential work hazards, falls are the leading cause of death on a construction site. In 2018, OSHA found that deaths relating to falls accounted for approximately one-third all deaths on a construction work site. Due…

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August 31 2015

OSHA Basics: What Is an OSHA Competent Person?

If you’re new to safety, you may wonder what OSHA means by the phrase competent person. Or even how one becomes an OSHA competent person. In this article, we’re going to give you the straight skinny. We’ll start by giving…

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June 16 2015

How to Make Safety Training More Fun and Engaging:…

What do YOU do to make your safety training at work fun and engaging for employees? Recently, we posted that simple question into a number of LinkedIn groups that deal with safety and/or EHS: “What do you do to make…

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February 9 2015

5S + Safety = Lean 6S Safety

    You’ve probably heard of 5S. If so, you know it’s a method for organizing a work area to increase efficiency and productivity while reducing waste. And it’s one of the first steps that many companies make while trying…