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Safely Working With Petroleum Products
By Jordan Hollingsworth As with many of the conveniences of the modern job site, petroleum products such as gasoline, diesel fuel, and oil are so familiar that we don’t give them a second thought. But that familiarity masks the inherent dangers associated with these...
Using NFPA 70E to Guide Your Electrical Safety Program
By Safety Management Group It’s a given that electrical safety is a key part of workplace safety. By following what’s outlined in NFPA 70E, Standard for Electrical Safety in the Workplace, you’ll protect your workers and stay on OSHA’s good side where electrical...
Ten Often-ignored Office Hazards
By Safety Management Group When most people think about industrial safety, the images that come to mind are of massive machinery in factories, the inherent dangers of construction sites, or the destructive potential of power tools. By comparison, office environments...
Safer Strategies for Excavations Around Underground Utilities
Jordan Hollingsworth, CSP, CRIS, CHST, CHSP Safety Advisor Nothing brings construction projects to a halt faster than the discovery of a gas pipe, electrical line, sewer tile, or water pipe that nobody knew was there. A crew with a backhoe is digging a trench and...
Budgeting for Safety Shouldn’t be an Afterthought
By Safety Management Group This is the time of year when most companies are trying to project next year’s costs and revenues. While nearly all of them attempt to forecast as accurately as possible, far too few give a great deal of thought to safety. Safety affects the...
What Exactly is a Qualified Electrical Worker?
By Safety Management Group State and federal regulations regarding workplace safety can often be confusing or ambiguous. But whether a company fully understands the rules, it is expected to fully comply with them. One area that raises many questions involves the need...
Video: OSHA Rules for Tractor Operation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZWmgC8t6Zc A training video for farm workers on the OSHA safety rules for operating tractor equipment. Produced by Compel Media, LLC. Compel Media is a social media video production company, helping its clients produce compelling media...
The Seven Steps of a Thorough Accident Investigation
By Safety Management Group There’s a tremendous difference between investigating a workplace incident and finding someone to blame for it. Unfortunately, it’s all too common for companies to confuse the two concepts. When something goes wrong, they work hard to...
Hot Work: Controlling Spark Producing Activities
Written By Vince Plank, CSP Hot work activity is a common task that is necessary in a variety of workplaces. General industry workplaces usually require maintenance shops or fabrication areas while construction jobsites generally require some type of cutting and/or...
The Three Elements of an Effective ILSM Program
By Safety Management Group In today’s ever-more-competitive and cost-conscious healthcare environment, hospitals and other healthcare facilities don’t have the luxury of shutting their doors when there is a need for construction or renovation. During a hospital’s...
Demystifying the Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter
By Vincent Plank, CSP Safety Management Group We’ve all seen ground-fault circuit interrupters or GFCIs at home near sinks in the bathroom and kitchen; but what exactly does a GFCI do, how does it work and where are they required? OSHA defines a GFCI as a device for...
Contractor Prequalification: An Effective Safety Strategy
Written by: Jordan Hollingsworth, MS, ASP, CHST, CHSP, CRIS® Safety Advisor, Design and Construction When you approach many companies’ facilities for the first time, you have to stop at a front gate or a front desk to identify yourself and explain why you’re there....
Cutting the Hazards of Cutting Concrete
Jordan Hollingsworth, ASP, CHST, CHSP Safety Advisor Since ancient times, concrete has been valued as a building material largely because of its durability and permanence. However, those very properties create challenges when there’s a need to change something that...
Spill Response: The Four Critical Steps
By Safety Management GroupLike fire, chemicals are very useful for a broad variety of functions. But just like fire, many chemicals are inherently hazardous or even deadly when they’re not used in a properly controlled manner, or when accidents occur. That’s an...
Take a Time Out for Safety
Ron Hanson, CHST Vice President, Safety Management Group It’s fourth down and two with less than a minute to go in a closely fought championship game. Twenty seconds in the huddle just isn’t going to be enough time to analyze the options, consider the defense, and...
Five Steps to Safer Scaffolding
Overview: Robb Tinney, a Safety Advisor at Safety Management Group, highlights the widespread use of scaffolding in the construction industry, noting that nearly two-thirds of construction workers use scaffolds regularly. Despite their common use, scaffolds are...
How Incident Rates are Calculated
How Incident Rates are Calculated Gary Gokey, CSP, ARM Safety Advisor, Safety Management Group Every company regularly makes payments for different types of insurance, but how those rates are set is a mystery to many of even the savviest managers. Many receive a...
Safety’s Impact on the Bottom Line
Safety’s Impact on the Bottom Line Mark Steinhofer, CSP Safety Advisor, Safety Management Group Suppose your company could make an investment in its business that provided a 400 to 600 percent rate of return. Sound like a fantasy? It isn’t. Successful owners and...
