Workplace Safety

There are many times when a facility can not get all the work completed throughout a single eight-hour shift. When this happens, it often becomes necessary to have employees on-site for two or even three shifts per day. While this certainly allows a single facility to get more work done each day, it does come … Read more

Improving workplace safety means reducing or eliminating hazards in the area. In order to do that, however, you need to really understand what a hazard is. A hazard is generally defined as a source of risk, but that doesn’t always make it easy to identify them in your own facility. Looking at some examples of … Read more

When trying to evaluate the safety of a workplace, it can be tempting to look only at areas where people are injured or experience other problems. The fact is, however, that hazards often present themselves in ways that are not nearly as obvious. This is because most of the time when someone is exposed to … Read more

By definition, an adverse health effect is the causation, promotion, facilitation, and/or exacerbation of a structural and/or functional abnormality, with the implication that the abnormality produced has the potential of lowering the quality of life, contributing to a disabling illness, or leading to premature death. When working on improving workplace safety, one of the most … Read more

One of the most important things that you can do for your workplace is to make it safer. Focusing on safety not only helps to minimize the risk for your employees, but it also helps to eliminate waste and improve the efficiency of your company. When you identify a potential hazard in your facility, you … Read more

In many industries it is necessary to have work being performed around the clock. When this is the case, employers have a variety of options to help ensure all the needed hours are covered. Sometimes an employer will simply set up multiple shifts of work and assign specific employees to specific times of work. While … Read more

Corrosive materials (sometimes referred to as caustics) are substances that will, through a chemical reaction, damage or destroy other substances on contact. In general, corrosives are either acids or bases: Acids: Hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid, nitric acid, hydrofluoric acid, acetic acid, chromic acid, etc. Bases: Ammonium hydroxide, sodium hydroxide, potassium hydroxide, etc. Even though corrosives … Read more

The 10 to 15 seconds following a chemical splashing into the eye are critical to preventing extremely serious, and potentially permanent, eye injuries. Employees must have access to an emergency eye wash station to ensure they can quickly and properly flush away hazardous substances. Even if the proper safety precautions are being followed an accident … Read more

When most people refer to health and safety efforts in the workplace, they primarily target eliminating workplace hazards to keep people safe from harm. However, the World Health Organization directly states that, “Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” This infers that … Read more

To start off, there needs to be an explanation of what Safety Management Systems aim to accomplish for those who use them. A Safety Management System, or SMS, is more of a business approach to maintaining a safe environment. To put it simply, it works methodically to identify and monitor hazards and control risks continuously. … Read more