Amazon, Dollar General and Starbucks are among the companies who made the The National Council for Occupational Safety and Health (National COSH) Dirty Dozen list for 2022. The Dirty Dozen is an annual list of the worst safety offenders and workers’ rights violators in the U.S. In making the list, National COSH solicits information from […]
You hear it all the time: “Why do we have to do this safety training? I’ve done this job for years. I know how to be safe.” Sometimes workers, and even management, see regular safety training as a waste of time, but safety pros know better. Those who complain don’t understand that: there’s value in […]
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 […]
For safety professionals in the mining industry, or for those with a creative bent looking for a new idea to help spread safety information, the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) developed safety pocket cards. MSHA designed these cards in a format that’s “easily printed, carried and shared” with Best Practice (BP) cards that […]
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 […]
Thirteen workers die from workplace injuries every day in the U.S., and to mark Workers Memorial Day, the agency is broadcasting an event to remember lives lost and stress the high cost of ignoring safety on the job. April 28 is Workers Memorial Day and OSHA is joining with “some of those scarred by workplace […]
A New Jersey aluminum products manufacturer entered into a settlement agreement with OSHA Jan. 4, affirming a $1 million fine and accepting 15 repeat and 55 serious violations stemming from a series of injuries at its Delair, NJ, plant. Aluminum Shapes LLC also agreed to implement enhanced abatement measures to address the violations. Those measures […]
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