Everything you need as a safety professional
COULD YOU IMAGINE LIFE WITHOUT YOUR HANDS OR YOUR FINGERS? Our hands have many qualities : strength, flexibility, sensitivity, coordination. When it comes to earning our living, our hands are often the most important tool we have. With healthy hands…
Pursuing a career in Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE) is both challenging and rewarding. With the increasing emphasis on workplace safety and environmental sustainability, HSE professionals play a crucial role in ensuring the well-being of employees and the protection of…
What is a Job Safety Analysis? A job safety analysis (JSA) is a procedure that helps integrate accepted safety and health principles and practices into a particular task or job operation. In a JSA, each basic step of the job…
As someone who’s in the construction business, you know that any construction project results in additional waste to the Earth. However, you also know that sustainable building practices are not just a passing trend, especially in today’s growing global warming…
1. Create a health and safety committee. These employees will oversee the ongoing definition and evaluation of your policies, and keep up-to-date on regulations specific to your industry. Their tasks can range from planning drills and developing new employee safety…
Number 1. Be arrogant. Avoid arrogance during your interview. Displaying pride can make interviewers feel as if you are talking down to them. Instead, discuss your skills and accomplishments in connection with how they can help the company and in…
Many workers are injured and killed each year while working in confined spaces. An estimated 60% of the fatalities have been among the would-be rescuers. A confined space can be more hazardous than regular workspaces for many reasons. To effectively…
When pedestrians for forklifts meet unexpectedly, it can have deadly consequences. Blind spots are oneof the major causes for this unexpected meeting to take place. They include corners, doorways that openout to an aisle and other areas with limited visibility…
The area within and surrounding the construction site can be very hazardous to workers if debris is allowed to build up.
Most of us are aware that there is a right and a wrong way to lift something. Each year training is provided to make you aware of safe lifting techniques, however, did you know that an average of 30 people…
Why are workplace inspections important? Workplace inspections help prevent incidents, injuries, and illnesses. Through a critical examination of the workplace, inspections help to identify and record hazards for corrective action. Health and safety committees can help plan, conduct, report, and…
Those who do not work in the trades may be perplexed by the term “toolbox talk”—but for those who do, it is a very familiar concept! These short 15-30-minute meetings are like training sessions on a single topic. They might…