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Safety pros have thousands of tools available at their disposal to standardize practices, deliver insightful results, and protect workers, especially in a profession as dangerous and complex as construction or manufacturing. Root cause analysis is one of the best tools available to you because it do…

We are now almost one year into the COVID-19 pandemic. Amidst the chaos, regulatory agencies have been working hard behind the scenes to assess the role of safety at work. And now, if you operate a business in California, you have some significant COVID-19 specific obligations to California OSHA (Ca…

Do you know what type of injury resulted in almost 43% of the injuries causing days away from work in 2018? It’s hand and finger injuries. Yes, cuts, burns, and skin diseases on workers’ hands send more than a million people to the emergency room each year. And according to OSHA, 70.9% of those inju…

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How do you define success in safety? For most safety pros, a win is seeing safe behaviors happen without prodding, continuously increasing employee engagement, and of course, a decline in injuries, which presently cost employers over $1 billion per week. But when it comes time to pitch the value of …

Like canned food, duct tape, and Jeeps, respirators owe their modern-day usage to wartime. Before World War I, respiratory protection wasn’t a priority, despite thousands dying from respiratory issues. During WWI, soldiers were given gas masks to protect against chemical warfare.  In 1919, the U.S. …