This year, OSHA has proposed changing the requirements for submitting injury and illness records. Depending on your company's size and classification, you may have more reporting requirements in the future or less.
What are the new OSHA 300 log requirements? What is the OSHA 300 log in the first place? And when is the OSHA 300 log due for 2023? We’ll answer all of these questions and more in this article.
October is National Protect Your Hearing Month! It’s an opportunity for businesses to spread awareness to employees on the importance of hearing loss prevention. Whether at work or home, everyone should take action to protect their hearing. In this blog, we’ll be sharing some easy-to-follow hearing safety tips.
Reinforcing a culture of safety in your workplace is a job that's never done. Keeping leadership, management, and frontline workers engaged with the subject requires various tools.
What Does SCBA stand for?
SCBA stands for Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus.
If the acronym sounds familiar, it's probably because you're familiar with SCUBA, a specialized type of self-contained breathing apparatus that is designed for underwater use.
If you're in the construction industry, you may have missed an acronym that corporate America has relied on for a while now: DEI.
DEI stands for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. It's a concept that acknowledges that diversity alone isn't enough – you need diverse voices to be included in the conversation, and to do that, you need to ensure they're treated equitably.
As we approach the end of the year, it's a good time to look back at the construction trends in 2022 and look ahead to the developing "building" trends, if you will, of the future.
Safety Tech Trends in Construction
What's a discussion of new trends in construction without the tech of the future?
And safety is an area of construction that's ripe for technological improvement.
Employers must provide safe and healthy working environments under the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (OSHA). OSHA exists to ensure these conditions are met for employees across the U.S.
What Are the Fatal Four?
OSHA's Fatal Four – also called the Focus Four – are the top four categories of hazards that cause construction industry fatalities.
The Fatal Four are:
Why Are Lifting Ergonomics Important?
Back injuries account for one in five workplace injuries, and 75% of workplace-related back injuries occur during a lifting task.
