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Our mission is to make safety training accessible and effective. This blog brings together the latest industry news, regulatory updates, best practices, and training insights to help employers and workers create safer job sites. Explore our newest articles below and check back regularly for fresh content.
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Heat Stroke & Illness At Work | Can’t Take the Heat?
What Is Heat Stress?Heat stress is what happens when one experiences excessive or elongated exposure to heat and humidity without relief or enough fluid intake. Heat stress co…
How Electrocution Happens at Work
There are so many machines that present risks. Any time you put yourself on a piece of equipment, you are risking your safety, and challenging death. Fortunately, there are sa…
Meat and Poultry Worker Safety: Key Hazards
There are so many different kinds of industries that OSHA provides safety standards for. These standards are put in place for the very specific purpose of minimizing injuries …
Bloodborne Pathogens in Construction
There are many industries that often come in contact with blood. Many construction companies, in particular, are unfamiliar with standards as they relate to blood; more specif…
MEWP Standards: What Changed and Why It Matters
If you are someone who operates mobile elevating work platforms, MEWPs, or are associated with these machines, there are changes in standards that you may need to be aware of.…
Safety Violations
No matter where you work, or what you do for a living, there is probably a chance that accidents could occur in your workplace. Because of this high chance for accidents, OSHA…
Weathering Heights- Tower Cranes and Wind
Crane Safe Wind SpeedWeather can be a dangerous factor in construction. Conditions such as high winds pose a significant threat to cranes and other large machines and equipmen…
Trench Hazards and OSHA Violations
At the bottom of a fifteen foot trench, a worker asked for permission to walk away from the “trench box”- protective steel barriers that hold up the trench’s walls- to check t…
Fall Protection and #HazardSpotting
What is the difference between a construction worker without a hard hat, and an elevated construction worker without fall protection?There is no difference, both construction …
Stop-Work Order Violation
Recently, a company was cited for violating a stop-work order that was placed on scaffolding. Stop-work orders are legal notices requiring employers to immediately suspend all…
Western Sugar Case: Fatalities, Fines, and Lessons
How many deaths does it take before a company changes its ways? How many fines must a company face, before they realize the severity of violations? For Western Sugar Cooperati…
Accidents in Construction
It is common knowledge that accidents happen. We really can’t altogether avoid them, which is what makes them accidents. Construction is one industry in which accidents occur …
