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Your Guide to Creating and Maintaining a Safe Workplace
A safe workplace will always ensure the success of an organization. Workplace safety is a critical consideration, whether you run a warehouse or operate within an office building. Creating a safe workplace can be challenging, though. It requires the right combination of training, awareness, and strategy. With that being said, it is not an insurmountable […]
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Workplace Safety: Top Tips for Employers
Workplace Safety should be a crucial concern for any organization. Any workplace can be dangerous, whether we’re talking about a warehouse or your corporate headquarters. Risk can lurk in the most unlikely of places – a loose leg on a chair, spilled water on the concrete floor, or inattentive employees more focused on their conversation […]
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How to Get Employees On Board with Workplace Safety
Struggling to get your employees on board with workplace safety? Whether they fail to wear the required PPE, continually clutter up their workspace, fail to store chemicals safely, or something else, it all adds up to big compliance problems. That’s not just a black mark against your company – it means major risks for your […]
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Training Tips to Avoid OSHA Violations in the Workplace
Organizations must follow certain training tips in order to avoid OSHA violations. Every year, workplace accidents cost American companies millions of dollars. Those costs come in the form of worker’s compensation payments, lost time and productivity, damage to business assets, and numerous other forms. OSHA rules and regulations are designed to help reduce the chance […]
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The High Cost of Noncompliance with OSHA Safety Requirements
Noncompliance with OSHA standards can lead an organization to serious consequences, including serious financial penalties. However, there are other ramifications to noncompliance, as well. We will explore what you need to know in this article. Safety and health regulations are in place to protect American workers on the job. Any workplace can hold hazards, both […]
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The Cost of Accidents in the Workplace and Tips to Improve Safety
Every year, accidents in the workplace cost American businesses an incredible amount of money. What’s more, those costs don’t always stop with treating the injuries sustained. There are other outcomes, including fines and fees for safety violations, ongoing costs of worker’s compensation payments, and more. There are also intangible costs – damage to an employer’s […]
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Tips to Help Create Psychological Safety in the Workplace
Creating a sense of psychological safety in the workplace is a critical step. Without it, your teams will lack cohesion, your team members will be too afraid of repercussions to take risks on new things, and your employees will not share what they truly think. Of course, creating that sense of psychological safety can be […]
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Putting Manufacturing Safety Front-and-Center
Why be concerned about manufacturing safety if manufacturing is in decline? As many people know, manufacturing in the US has declined precipitously in the US since WWII, during which the percentage of the nonfarm workforce employed in manufacturing was 38% (source). When the war ended, that figure immediately declined to 30%, and then continued marching […]
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Making Workplace Safety the Priority it Should Be
When it’s time for workplace safety trainings, you can expect many of your employees to roll their eyes. It’s a topic that is easy to dismiss, and if your workplace safety training content is less than engaging, the reaction is understandable. The problem, however, is that your company runs the risk of creating a workplace […]
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How to Protect Workers from Asbestos
Despite the fact that asbestos has been known and used by humans for thousands of years and as early as 100 AD, there are written reports about the link between asbestos and illness, for much of the twentieth century, asbestos was used in myriad of products from clothing to construction materials. A shortlist of products […]
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Disposing of Universal Waste in the Workplace
Greening the workplace involves more than recycling paper. A key part of putting the environment first in any work place has to learn how to handle what is widely known as “universal waste.” According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the main categories of universal waste are batteries, pesticides, and mercury-containing equipment and […]
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Active Shooter Incidents in the Workplace
Following the San Bernardino shootings in early December, many workplaces increased security and started to take a long, hard look at their existing preparation for an active shooter incident. While no one wants to prepare for such an incident, being prepared has proven a valuable strategy for preventing active shooter incidents, ending them as quickly […]
