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Wet surfaces account for a significant portion of injuries reported by state agencies. Some of the most frequently reported types of surfaces where these injuries occur include food preparation areas.

Plan Ahead to Get the Job Done Safely

Preventing slips & falls is the only way to keep your company on firm ground.

Sweep up any debris caused by the spill or the cleanup operation and dispose of it properly. It is advisable for workers to wear masks during any sweep-up operations involving a spill.

Dealing with Industrial Workplace Spills

Most workplaces will require that the spill and the cleanup operation be documented in order to evaluate how effectively the spill response plan worked, as well as to look for ways to prevent such a spill from happening again.

Remember, PPE can help protect your head from hazards, but your first line of defense is using your head to eliminate hazards and implement engineering and administrative controls.

Preventing Traumatic Brain Injury: Protective Measures from Head to Toe

Your first line of defense is using your head to eliminate hazards and implement engineering and administrative controls.

 EHS software solutions can help companies stay organized and keep up with ever-changing regulations. For example, software solutions can streamline, standardize, and track processes essential to ISO 9001 compliance.

How EHS Software Can Ensure Worker Safety and Increase Your Bottom Line

A comprehensive EHS platform can also restructure once-manual safety procedures and contribute to the company’s digital transformation efforts.

By June 1, 2016, OSHA expects all employers to be fully compliant with GHS adoption.

Best Practices for Safety Data Sheets

Don't let complacency permeate your hazard communication program.

Most building codes require fire extinguishers; because they need to be checked monthly, most are fully charged and ready to use. However, whether or not employees should actually use them is sometimes a debate.

Six Emergency Response Habits Employees Need to Develop

Employees need to refresh their training and have drills regularly so they will be able to rely on both their knowledge and their experience when emergencies happen.

By choosing new technology, such as remote-controlled demolition machines as well as cutting equipment, contractors, foundries, and operations in other tough industries can reduce workplace injuries and workers

Innovating for a Safer Workforce

Companies can address an aging construction industry with sophisticated technology.

Shaping Safety

Even very small changes in seven postural elements can show a strong effect on balance, strength—as well as on internal states.



There are three common respiratory dangers a process hazard analysis (PHA) can help identify—risk of fire, release of toxins, and volatility of the environment.

Emergency Escape Respirators

Time, efficiency, and protection become key factors the right respirator selection can address before a worker is ever faced with an emergency situation.

Farewell to the Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety

Because potential budget cuts could hit federal agencies’ research budgets hard, the timing of the decision is unfortunate.

Job Hazard Analysis Process Redesign: Integration of Job Hazard Analysis and Work Planning Processes

Integrating the JHA and Work Planning processes reinforced the new philosophical approach for shifting responsibility for working safely to those responsible for planning and actually performing the work.

Although the numbers and types of fall hazards may vary greatly throughout industry sectors, no facility is without fall hazards. (New Pig photo)

Before the Fall: Recognize Fall Hazards and Conduct Training to Prevent Incidents

Even if a fall hazard isn't specifically addressed, if it can be identified, plans need to be made to mitigate the hazard and prevent employee injuries.

Pictograms are required safety data sheet elements that are intended to convey specific hazard information visually.

GHS HazCom Training is More Important Than Ever

An effective HazCom training program provides employees with a deeper understanding of the dangers and emergency situations they may face.

Fatality Investigation: 22-Year-Old Construction Laborer Killed in Trench Collapse

The Kentucky Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) program investigates fatalities and makes recommendations for preventing future similar injuries.

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All-Important Equipment When Seconds Count

Placement of the emergency equipment is very important. A person in pain and with possibly obstructed vision should be able to traverse the path from hazard to the flushing units within seconds.

AEM Releases Updated Digger Derrick Safety Manual

The updated manual has new and expanded content on safe equipment operation, start-up, shutdown, and maintenance precautions.

Skilled Nursing Center Wins MIOSHA Award

The CET Gold Award criteria include having an effective Safety and Health Management System. MIOSHA staff consult with Gold awardees and evaluate their SHMS to ensure that key elements are implemented.

DOE Completes Evaluation of Hanford's Tunnel 2, Finds 'High' Risk of Collapse

The two PUREX storage tunnels hold mixed radioactive and chemical waste. A section of Tunnel 1 collapsed May 9, and state authorities then ordered DOE and CH2M HILL Plateau Remediation Company to immediately assess the integrity of both.

New Study Examines Injured Workers' Opioid Use By States

Comparing opioid use for workers injured in 2010 and 2013 over an average two-year period following the injury, the study found reductions in the average amount of opioids dispensed to injured workers in several states, with larger reductions seen in Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, and New York.

ATSB Releases Report on Fatal Parachuting Crash

The 2014 crash killed all five aboard. "Our investigation did uncover a number of safety issues associated with occupant restraint, modification of parachuting aircraft, and scope for improving the risk controls associated with parachuting operations," said ATSB Chief Commissioner Greg Hood.

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