OSHA Safety Blog

Topics That Focus on Health and Safety All work environments are different and each will have differing health and safety procedures and requirements. Choose the safety topics that apply to your workplace and then dig deeper to come up with a variety of sub-topics, tips, and ideas for your company specifically. Personal protective equipment (PPE) requirements - If your workplace requires protective equipment, make sure employees are up to date on when it's required, how to use it, and how to recognize when equipment needs replacing. Safe driving tips - Help your employees stay accident-free with regular tips on safe driving. Hot weather safety - Discuss protective clothing, use of sunscreen, how to keep hydrated, how to recognize signs of heat stroke, and other topics related to staying safe in the heat. Cold weather safety - Working in the cold presents a different set of potential problems. Tips could include how to dress for the weather, recognizing the signs of f...

Workplace Site Safety Inspections With nearly 30 decades of on-the-job experience, we have a solid understanding of the workplace safety challenges job sites confront every day. AP Safety Training Solutions' team utilizes this information to spot and eliminate potential security hazards before accidents occur. Site safety inspections are the most effective way of identifying hazardous conditions in the workplace. Job sites require observations and observation to stay ahead of safety difficulties. We are a proven safety resource for third-party workplace job site safety inspections. We identify possible OSHA violations, accountability problems, and risk exposures while helping clients with decreasing hazards before they damage the reputation of the business and injure employees. The very best defense against harm and loss is an extensive understanding of risks and deficiencies within your organization and projects. Through job site safety inspections and observations in yo...

Lanyard and Harness Safety AP Safety Training Solutions  provides lanyard and harness safety protection training programs. Fall arrest gear is used and trusted every day by industries such as domestic and industrial construction, maintenance, arbor, utility services (water, power, and telecommunications), mining, the military and rescue, and emergency services. Our range of height safety and rescue programs enables superior performance and incomparable safety in elevated conditions including vertical rescue, confined space entry, work positioning, work restraint, rope access, rescue, fall arrest, and emergency response. Lanyard and Harness Safety, ladder safety, heights, and  protective gear OSHA has developed this webpage to provide useful details on fall protection to workers and employers. Why is fall protection important? Falls are among the most common causes of serious work-related injuries and deaths. Employers need to prepare the workplace to prev...

What Is Workplace Safety Training? Workplace safety training intends to ensure your employees aren't injured at work. Its goal is to develop a health and safety program where safety becomes second nature. It also makes it possible to meet with your legal obligation to protect individuals and employees. Employees remain committed and loyal based on your abilities to supply them with safety knowledge. 12 Workplace Safety Training Tips for Workers: 1. Safety training has to be bolstered if employees fail to comprehend and implement their knowledge. This requires you to track their progress after safety training to quantify how well your employees are employing the best safety practices that apply to their own particular job. 2. Materials should be presented in the sequence of the steps. Safety training should be quite methodical. All security knowledge moved to workers ought to be presented in order, as it is more easy for them to put it into practice. 3. Safety chan...

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Health Safety Standard Precautions for Businesses Standard measures are a pair of disease control techniques used to reduce transmission of diseases which may be acquired by means of blood, body fluids, non-intact skin (including rashes), and mucous membranes. These measures must be used when providing care to all individuals, whether they appear infectious or symptomatic. Hand Hygiene Hand hygiene describes both washings with plain or anti-bacterial soap and water and to using alcohol gel into decontaminating hands. When hands are not visibly soiled, alcohol gel would be your preferred system of hand hygiene after supplying health care to customers. Hand hygiene ought to be performed prior to and after contact with a customer, promptly after touching blood, body fluids, non-intact skin, mucous membranes, or contaminated items (even if gloves have been worn through contact), promptly after removing gloves, when moving from infected body sites to clean body sites during cli...

Where Machine Guarding Hazards Occur Machine Guarding Requirements Machine guards must fulfill these minimum general requirements: Avoid contact The shield has to prevent hands, arms, and some other part of your operator's body from making contact with dangerous moving parts. Secure Operators should be unable to easily remove or tamper with the shield. Guards and safety devices should be made of durable material that can withstand the conditions of ordinary use. They must be secured to the device. Protect from falling objects The guard should ensure that no items can fall into moving parts. Make no new hazards A shield cannot produce a hazard like a shear point, a jagged edge, or an unfinished surface that may lead to a laceration. Produce no hindrance Any shield which prevents the operator from performing the work quickly and smoothly might shortly be overridden or ignored. Allow safe lubrication If possible, operators need to be able to lubricate the mac...