Tip of the Week

Do you feel this person’s pain? Can you relate? Many of us can. According to the National Safety Council, musculoskeletal disorders are the most common on-the-job injury. Back pain is expensive as well as painful. This article on Healthline [...]

Memorial Day was yesterday. It’s the traditional start of the summer season. And temperatures are already starting to heat up, with some areas hitting triple digits. It’s time to brush up on our heat-related illness prevention information. Test [...]

  There’s an old saying that a job is not done until the paperwork has been completed. But what if you can’t access or find the paperwork? Did the job get done? Here’s a recent true story that highlights this potential problem. Recently, an [...]

A month or so ago we had a safety tip on the hierarchy of controls, where one of the controls that we said you could use was minimization or simplification. The idea was that processes that are overly complicated or where you have more things [...]

What is XBB 1.16? You might have heard of it by its nickname, Arcturus. If you are an astronomer, you might recognize Arcturus as a bright star in the northern sky. Or, if you have paid attention to medical news recently, you might recognize [...]

Have you ever been inside a building during a power outage? How did you find your way out? Imagine what conditions must be like during a fire. There is smoke filling up the space, you are having trouble breathing. You can hardly see. And the [...]

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) – most of us have had to wear it from time to time. Maybe you wear some form of PPE every work day. What do you know about your PPE? Test yourself with the following questions. We’ll show the answers at the [...]

  During the last couple of weeks, we have focused on the preparation of Job Hazard Analyses (JHAs). You may remember the OSHA definition of a JHA as “a technique that focuses on job tasks to identify hazards before they occur. It focuses [...]

Last week we offered some videos to introduce you to the topic of Job Hazard (or Job Safety) Analyses (JHAs or JSAs). This week, we are going a little more in depth as to what a JHA is, and what it can do for you. OSHA defines a JHA as “a [...]

We have some interesting videos for you to watch. The first, from Mitsubishi in the United Kingdom, focuses on 10 incidents with forklifts, all of which go badly. Our favorite starts at about 2 minutes, 35 seconds into the video. You may enjoy [...]