This may feel like it doesn’t need to be said but if a piece of equipment is in need of maintenance for safety reasons then it needs to be fully taken out of service until it’s fixed. Otherwise, it could have fatal consequences. Safety professionals, supervisors, managers and even workers know this, yet injury incidents […]
June is National Safety Month and the National Safety Council (NSC) will be doing weekly promotions to raise awareness on the more than 4,100 preventable workplace deaths and 4 million injuries that occurred in 2020 alone. NSC President and CEO Lorraine Martin said safety professionals and workers are “up against some of the same safety […]
Supervisor buy-in to a safety program is important to a company’s overall safety culture. Period. If supervisors fail to follow safety rules or prioritize production over safety, then employees are going to be much less likely to take the program seriously. And sometimes in these cases, supervisors failing to follow safety rules can lead to […]
The owner of an excavation company can’t be sued by his employee over injuries sustained in a trench collapse. Why? Because, despite failing to use a trench box, the court found he didn’t intend to harm the employee. Workers’ compensation and other laws are in place to protect employers from lawsuits and keep the courts […]
A chemical plant owned by the federal government violated OSHA’s process safety management (PSM) standard in multiple ways! If it was a privately owned business the facility would be paying more than a million dollars in fines, but instead it gets off with just having to correct its violations. What happened: The Cliffside Helium Enrichment […]
Newly proposed regulations relating to the New York HERO Act’s workplace safety committee requirements offer some clarification on what’s expected from employers and when they are required to institute a committee. Under the Act, the state’s Department of Labor will require employers with at least 10 employees to allow those employees to establish a workplace […]
We had a location that was doing well with safety. Their stats were great! But then they started tanking. We didn’t know what was causing this. So we went to the facility and gathered people from all departments for a meeting. It was important for employees to tell us themselves what was going wrong. But […]
Developing a strong safety culture can “change the landscape of an organization and pay incredible dividends,” according to the National Safety Council (NSC). Those dividends would obviously include a safer workplace with fewer injured employees, and could also enhance profits thanks to a decrease in employee turnover, lower workers’ compensation costs and better productivity. But, […]
Over the past several years, safety culture has emerged as a pivotal component of any highly productive and innovative organization. Now emerging from a global pandemic, workplace safety is a top priority for every organization’s success. And it is not just about creating sanitization stations and painting lines on the floor for social distancing. It is […]
