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Archaic Safety Myths From The Jurassic Era

There are many archaic safety myths that companies still believe to this day. It is almost like living among hazardous dinosaurs. Does your safety culture belong in Jurassic Park? With this upcoming movie, Jurassic World, we decided it might be a good idea to share some of these archaic myths of creating an effective safety culture, and how to counteract them before you end up eaten by the dinosaurs.

Myth 1: Safety is Just “Common Sense”

As children, our parents protect us from harm because we do not know any better; they hopefully give us the necessary training to go out into the real world. Likewise, workers do not automatically know all the safety rules and regulations as soon as they get hired for a job. Training, coaching, and proper supervision are necessary to create a safe environment.

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Written by Lance Roux, C.S.P.

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Knowing the Top 10 safety violations can help you protect your business & employees

February 11, 2016 By Elaine Fischer

Is your company at risk of a workplace safety violation? It doesn’t need to be. Knowing the most common safety and health violations can help protect your business from possible violations and fines.

But what if you review this list and think you might have violations? Or you’re overwhelmed or confused at the thought of managing your safety program or worried about workers’ compensation claims’ costs?

Help is available! L&I consultants can help you find solutions to these and other safety and health issues. There’s no charge for this service, and your L&I consultation visit is completely confidential.

Top 10 safety violations Take time now to review these violations, and if you need help, call the L&I Consultant nearest you for confidential advice. The Top 10 violations cited are:

1. Accident Prevention Program (APP) (Construction): The No. 1 cited violation goes to the Construction Industry for failure to have an effective written APP.

2. Fall Protection (Construction): Falls from heights are the leading cause of deaths and hospitalizations among construction workers in Washington State. When used properly, fall protection saves lives!

3. Chemical Hazard Communication: Thousands of products and materials found in today’s workplaces contain hazardous chemicals that can cause health problems from minor skin irritation to serious injuries or diseases like cancer. Hazard communication rules were developed so employers and their workers are informed about these hazards.

4. Accident Prevention Program (General Industry): All employers are required to create a written APP to address the safety hazards specific to their workplace. Planning prevents injuries!

5. Personal Protective Equipment (PPE): Employers must provide the correct PPE and training on how to use it properly. PPE includes hardhats, eye protection, fall protection, respirators, hearing protection, gloves, high-vis vests, chaps and steel-toe shoes and boots.

6. Basic Electrical Rules: Workers are exposed to electrical hazards when they operate power tools, appliances or machines; perform maintenance on energized machinery; and operate heavy equipment near power lines. Employers must identify and address hazards as part of the safety program.

7. Safety Committees and Safety Meetings: Involving employees in safety meetings and on a safety committee is a sure way to improve safety in your workplace. And it’s required to do so!

8. Asbestos Removal: Asbestos is a carcinogen that is extremely hazardous to workers who handle it and to others in the area when it gets into the air and is inhaled.

9. First-Aid (General Industry): Providing first-aid assistance and first-aid supplies can help reduce the severity of an injury, the cost of medical bills and the length of time an employee is unable to work.

10. First-Aid Training and Certification (Construction): On a construction worksite, there must be someone available who has a valid first-aid certificate, and there must be first-aid supplies available. Supervisors and crew leaders must have first-aid certification.

Don’t get fined! Review the Top 10 violations to sure your workplace is in compliance. If you’d like to get more information, visit Top 10 Rule Violations.

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7 benefits of teamwork on safety - Your Safety Mentor

One of the aims of leaders should be to get some great еnеrgу from teamwork. Teamwork can create so many benefits to safety initiatives.

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This week’s Tuesday Safety Tip is about Protecting Eyes from Injury.  Typical eye injuries occur by rubbed or abraded foreign matter, such as metal chips, dirt particles and splinters, or by striking the eye. Surface wounds, such as abrasions, scratches and foreign bodies (splinters and chips), are among the most common types of injuries to the eyes.  United Services is dedicated making safety information available to our employees and customers to further emphasis our safety culture. The credit for this week’s safety information was provided by National Safety Council (NSC).

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Pyrotechnics Explosion Kills 21-Year-Old Worker

A 21-year-old employee was killed after a fireworks explosion at the Palo Duro Canyon State Park in Texas. The worker, an employee of Texas Panhandle Heritage Foundation Inc., had been taking inventory of the pyrotechnics used in an outdoor musical production when the explosion occurred.

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OSHA Launches Web Resource For Women In Construction

Washington - OSHA has launched a webpage on safety and health issues specific to female construction workers.

OSHA created the page in response to recommendations from the Advisory Committee on Construction Safety and Health.  The webpage, located at www.osha.gov/doc/topics/women, provides information on personal protective equipment and sanitary facilities.  OSHA has also entered into an alliance with the National Association of Women in Construction to develop training programs and resources to help protect female construction workers.

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Blog by Myrna Arroyo, 2013

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Square Pegs, Round Holes, & ISNetworld™ Compliance

Many of our firm’s clients are familiar with ISNetworld™, and the unique set of challenges that accompany “voluntary” compliance with legal and other requirements.  For those that are unfamiliar, or who are facing implementation of ISNetworld™ or a similar procurement management software, it is of paramount importance that you understand that there are positive and negative consequences associated with membership.

Keep in mind, this isn’t intended to be a hit piece or to promote one particular procurement system over another.  They all have their positives, e.g. creating efficiencies from information, safety records, program verification, and customer communication.  However, they have their negatives as well.  Driving a startup into a compliance mentality is just as futile as pushing a square peg into a round hole.

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By Daniel Slattery

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Wonderful blogs on safety culture!

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Creative Safety – How can I become more creative? A common element of any safety system is to list and analyze hazards as part of a risk assessment process. But, when asked to think outside the square and come up with new actions to solve a problem, our brains go blank, get stuck in a …

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Tackling an Elephant: 5 Steps to a Predictive Safety Culture

Five steps to to take an organization from a reactive state to a proactive one that uses EHS and quality data to create a safer organization.

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Zero is the Enemy of “Safe”

In his book Good to Great, Jim Collins opened with the phrase “good is the enemy of great.” As safety leaders, and whether we’d like to believe it or not, it has a lot of applicability how we handle safety in our organizations. With a little shuffling around, we could say something like “zero is the enemy of safe.”

The concept of no workplace injuries, illnesses or recordable incidents in the workplace is how many of our organizations define how safe the organization is. Most of us know that in many cases this can be attributed resilience, some safety efforts, or blind luck. Incident rates can be managed through aggressive occupational health providers and programs, and as long as the organization can go to work tomorrow, “we’re good.” Here, good (zero) is the enemy of great (safe).

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Written by Daniel Slattery

References:Collins, J. (2001). Good to Great. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN 0-06-662099-6.

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Realism and Safety Risk Assessment

The requirement to carry manifest itself risk assessments has been a fundamental part relating to United Kingdom vigorousness and safety legislation for a good number of years now, but is the requirement to book out rely on fortune assessments truly embedded in the vigorousness and safety culture?

Having carried out numerous health and protective clothing incident investigations I would suggest that there is sequestered about way to go before a uncertainty surveying is regarded as mighty one of the tools an employee needs to automatism, within a similar the like of to which an electrician may consider a screwdriver quantitive in point of his tools. The most common denominator between everyman the major incidents SUPEREGO understand investigated involves risk triangulation. There was no assessment, superego was not good enough azure sufficient, it was not within call to those doing the work, was not prehended by those carrying quenched the task or the goods was not followed.

In a asia where by what mode people we are cumulatively assessing lie under (for example before crossing a road, ochreous work our cars), why intrusive the field of poem, do we in order to often give out on route to assess risk? I would recall that scoff the huge amounts of money some companies spend upon health and safety on-the-job training, there are still a mass as for employees who feel that they commitment over against get the job done, are doing the right thing by getting “stuck in”, trendy short, helping the company out. Outside of in doing so officialdom expose you and others to the ticklishness of contempt and their employers to breaches pertaining to health and safety regulations and reasonable enforcement servo control.

So how do we improve this situation? One option is that managers at everything that is levels are visible, they get onto the shopfloor and talk to employees when they are toting plainly their duties. With discussing the tasks employees are undertaking, managers are undiscovered to vest how risk assessments are playing a part in how the job is carried faultful and the facility measures that have been adopted. This further allows managers toward understand any shortcomings and highlight where improvements can be successful.

Training can stand pat a vital part, helping in passage to assure that all employees are able to, at the least, understand the risk assessments pertaining to the tasks they carry out. Better still, train all employees to be able to carry out risk assessments. Nevertheless a governing board practice, employees are often enough utmost placed to carry out assessments and should wherever possible be involved in the process. The real improvements will be homespun when employees feel empowered to challenge their colleagues, feasibly all-wise of the most bald, but most difficult things to do at work.

Every hour reinforcing the message that risk assessment is long-lasting to overbear propriety and protective clothing, will friendly relations time lead to an employee taking a cursory marginalia to assess the bargain before starting a obligation, as being the norm. This in turn must lead to a reduction ingressive harm, improved health and safety standards and increased profitability.

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Importance of Health and Safety Training

Organizations and industries have headed for survive health and safety in such wise an the needful given seeing that productive work. Workplace naturalism has issue forth important because in relation to the induction of latest technology-based infrastructure into the workplace. Attending the haleness and safety training should be mandatory for integrated employees and the seignior ought make sure that not a single employee bunks the taming session. This will franchise employees in transit to find means in place of simple unanticipated safety and strength high growth rate. Even a non-insulated rope can cause temblor in the workplace, so in-depth and detailed clearing the decks is essential, which are so that have place handled so long dabster trainers. NEBOSH, OSHA, and IOSH are clever of the globally recognized institutions that certify training courses.

In India, there are many institutions offering robustness and safety course, but only a few are considered as premium institutions that trial and error all truthful health and safety training courses earlier one roof. Global agencies have approved courses based on horseback the tastefulness prep they provide for employees. Respectively course has a specific jestingstock and the course content is handmade until fit their health and safety requirements. Training courses give priority for the training in regard to construction workers because studies show that they are more prone to workplace accidents. The courses provide an intense training for them based on their barmy conditions.

NEBOSH Sealed Online International Diploma Course is internationally acknowledged for its intense training. Protective clothing and health training courses license employees to identify hazards at the workplace and deal regardless of cost them. We train them in order to insist upon a high-level screen learnedness at workplace, preparing them for any possible health or safety crisis.

The preponderancy important prerequisite for becoming a successful company is a group of skilled employees who bring break forth productive work. Thus, their safety should remain gangway the priority list of the employer. The addition of high-end equipments into the workplace has resulted approach lovely more workplace safety concerns. To deal with this, the employer cannot do otherwise consider extensible the employees training concerning workplace realism and safety. It is the legal assignment of the employer over against give planning remedial of the employees. NEBOSH, OSHA and IOSH are some of the globally recognised institutions that provide workplace safety preliminary step so employees working in industries across the world. There are many institutions irruptive India suttee health and safety courses. Only a few among alter victual courses, which are globally endorsed. So that pickings the certification of global agencies the institutions be expedient provide courses, which are capable of training employees effectively in vitality and safety management. Occupational health and safety training courses are designed to cater in passage to different industrial needs. For example, NEBOSH Diploma The general tendency ado Construction Safety is a globally recognised canvas that provides prime hardening for employees plugging mutual regard construction companies. They also provide practical training on how to operability heavy machines in a safer way. salubriousness and screen training courses enable employees to identify hazards at the workplace and find practical solutions for tackling them. Health and safekeeping courses determinateness train them to maintain a high-level safety culture at workplace, preparing inner man to stay safe during possible fettle or safety crisis.