For Better Safety Performance, Look to Your C-Suite
If your TRIR rate and DART score aren’t what you’d like them to be, ask yourself this: Do your senior executives live and breathe your company’s safety program? Are they talking...
Why Holding Toolbox Talks Daily is Not Too Often
Research shows that when it comes to these brief safety meetings, more is better. Short and specific to the tasks at hand, toolbox talks serve multiple purposes. They remind...
How Often Do You Review Your Safety Program’s Performance?
Your company may have most of the elements of a great safety program in place, including commitment and support from management, regular site-specific safety meetings and ongoing...
What Are Your Company’s Core Safety Principles?
Does your company have a set of rules for employees that may not be broken?
Reduce Incident Rates with Better New Hire Safety Orientations
Want to slash your company’s TRIR (total recordable incident rate) and DART (days away, restricted or transferred) scores in half? Beef up your new hire safety orientation program...
Employers Remain Confused about Which Confined Space Standard to Follow
Working in a confined space poses inherent dangers, and OSHA regulations are designed to ensure that employers take effective steps to mitigate or eliminate them. OSHA introduced...
Top 5 Violations of the Lockout/Tagout Standard and How to Avoid Them
Having an energy control program is the first step in preventing hazardous energy incidents. Expecting the unexpected is never more important than when dealing with equipment that...
Smaller Construction Firms: It May Be Time for an Onsite Non-Enforcement Consultation from OSHA
These free visits help companies learn how to work safer and comply with regulations. The Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) conducts some 72,000 federal and state...
How to Maximize the Pre-Job Briefing
What’s the first thing your workers do on the jobsite each day? A pre-job briefing, held before anyone picks up a hammer or begins laying pipe, will prepare them for the tasks...
6 Mistakes to Avoid When Renting Porta Potties
A portable restroom, aka port-a-potty, is a convenience and often, a necessity. At a jobsite, it may constitute the only restroom facility available. At a wedding, it may...
