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OSHA Reporting Rules Mandates for Illness and Injury Recordkeeping

From the ITA launch page, you may access the Injury Tracking Application (ITA) and submit your OSHA Form 300A information to the Agency. Certain employers have until March 2nd of the year after the calendar year covered by Form 300A to submit the data from the completed form to OSHA. There are also answers to…

Why Fall Protection is Critical for Construction Companies and Their Workers

Construction work is always dangerous and fall protection is among the most significant elements in the practice, since the workers face risks of high places. According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), falls are one of the leading causes of death on construction sites, claiming the lives of hundreds of thousands and killing…

Why Defensive Driving Training Can Reduce Your Company’s Auto Insurance and Business Risk

Road Safety is essential for businesses that rely on driving for their daily operations. Whether through company vehicles, delivery fleets, or employee travel nevertheless, road accidents are one of the most common financial risk and liability opener. Train employees on defensive driving! It is a tried and tested means of reducing business risk with efforts…

Why Confined Space Training is Important and How to Do it Right

Confined space training prepares employees for entry into areas that have a restricted point for entering or exiting and/or are non-ventilated. With many confined spaces like tanks, silos, tunnels or manholes hotter than 40 degrees Celsius and have toxic gases, there is a risk of deficient in oxygen or combustible dust. Effective training meets compliance…

OSHA Injury and Illness Recordkeeping Basics— A Guide for Employers

These type of records are not always required to be kept by all employers. But if yours falls under OSHA and its regulations, then you need to keep an accurate record of any injuries or diseases that take place in your workplace. Such documentation is necessary to track health and safety of workers, as well…

Confined Space Worker Best Safety Practices

Occupational hazardous such as working in confined spaces are unique and can be life threatening. Confined spaces including tanks, vaults, manholes, pipes, silos and tunnels are typically characterized by limited means for entry and exit; poor air flow; potential hazardous atmospheres. Best practices that aim to prevent workplace injury and death are critical for worker…

Why Every Construction Worker Needs to Take OSHA 10-Hour Training

Your phone rings, lulling you out of bed at 5 a.m. You stumble into the kitchen and make yourself some strong coffee. You slip on your heavy work boots and put on your hard hat. Good looking. : Another day on the job. But once you’ve entered those gates, are you totally ready for the…

Reasons Forklift Driving Training is Critical to Workplace Safety

It’s easy to use a forklift, isn’t it? Drive up, pick up something, yell around. Nothing too exceptional. Oh, but wait. Those powerful engines can also be fatal when in the hands of novice operators. And this isn’t a “security guy” whining either. The statistics are bone-chilling: 100 workers a year die and 20,000 get…

Why Every Employer Should Enact an Active Shooter Action Plan – Run, Hide, Fight

Active shooter incidents turn lives upside down in seconds – and there’s one popping up everywhere. Working, studying, going to shopping centers – there’s nothing 100% secure anymore. I know, it’s not the most comfortable subject to write about. But.. If you fail to recognize the danger of an active shooter, your entire team is…

Enhancing Workplace Safety by Educating Staff About Forklift Operation

Driving a forklift seems simple for people to do—just go around picking things up, right? What could possibly go wrong? A lot! Without sharp knowledge, an accident can happen at any time. This screaming baby machine require ability and training in order to avoid disaster. To keep staff safe and avoid serious injury all workers…