Tip of the Week

The Occupational Health and Safety Act, Section 5(a)(1) contains the General Duty Clause, which requires employers to provide their employees a safe place to work. Look around your workplace. Is [...]

It’s here again; it’s that time – time for many employers to make sure the OSHA 300 logs are ready. There are deadlines coming at the end of January. At the start of the business day on February [...]

HAPPY NEW YEAR! SCM sends our best wishes to each of you and hopes that everyone has a happier, healthier New Year! While we hope to have a healthier 2022, we are facing an outbreak of omicron, [...]

We know there’s one more Monday in December but due to the holidays we are sending out the monthly quiz a little early. Our editors will be taking some well-deserved time off. But before we get [...]

  If you took the time to watch the short, one-minute video, you saw a couple trying to walk up their icy driveway. The good news is that they made it, although it wasn’t easy. Winter [...]

What’s wrong in this picture? Take your time and really look at it. We’ll wait…. We are not being fair. Because there is something wrong in the picture, but the hazard is not obvious. [...]

Here’s a fun video for you. It’s a “Saturday Night Live” skit, advertising children’s clothing for the holidays. And if you’ve ever dressed your children for the holidays, you’ll relate as the [...]

We love Thanksgiving. We know about the pilgrims and how they gathered to celebrate their first year of survival in the New World. But how much do you really know about Thanksgiving? There are [...]

The National Safety Council has an interesting article in their current magazine regarding Job Safety Analysis (JSA), sometimes called a Job Hazard Analysis (JHA). The article leads with an [...]

  OSHA released their new Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) in the Federal Register this past Friday, November 5th. To read it for yourself, here is a link:   Emergency Temporary [...]