Tip of the Week

  One aspect of safety in the workplace is your written compliance programs, plans, and policies. Do you know what they are and when they are required? We find that when talking with clients, that details about written programs are not [...]

Thanksgiving Day is this coming Thursday signaling the start of the holiday season. Some people have already begun the celebration, decorating, watching holiday movies, and ordering their peppermint mochas. Yet, for some people the holidays are [...]

When you were young, did you pick flowers and chain them together to wear in your hair or to present to your teacher or mother? That is one type of daisy chain, but it is not what we are talking about. What we are talking about today is [...]

While on a recent trip, Paul Gantt, SCM President and a Certified Safety Professional (CSP), happened to look in a store window. The pictures above show what he saw. To set the picture, the cords were to there to provide the electricity to some [...]

Happy Halloween! It’s that time of year – with ghosts, goblins, pirates, and other assorted costumed fun, compounded by candy and treats. We are going to try to provide you with the trick – your monthly safety quiz! Knowing that it is also cold [...]

While listening to the radio the other day, I was surprised to hear the announcer talk about a recent safety training he attended at his station, describing it as irrelevant and “a waste of time.” He could not see the necessity of the training [...]

Courtesy of NBC.com We’ve been focusing on emergency preparedness for the past month. Because Hurricane Ian, is so fresh in our minds, we thought we could add one more disaster to our list. Hurricanes are horribly devastating. So far, Cuba is [...]

  Two sometimes overlooked parts of the Emergency Action Plan regulation are found in 29 CFR, Part 1910.38(c)(1) and (d). In these sections of the regulation, employers are required to have procedures for employees to report fires or other [...]

  September is National Preparedness Month, and this month we are focusing our safety tips on emergencies. One type of emergency we should always be prepared for is an earthquake. Unlike other natural disasters, like hurricanes where there [...]

Twenty-one years ago, the United States suffered one of the most tragic and devastating events in our 246-year history – a series of horrific terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centers in New York City, the Pentagon, and one thwarted attack on [...]