Introduction If you want to learn about OSHA’s requirements for hard hats, you’re in the right place. Edward Buller gave us the hard hat in America in 1919. Called the Hard-Boiled Hat, this canvas and leather headgear was the first commercially available head protection device. Now worn by millions of workers, Bullard’s hard hat revolutionized…
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One of the best things about the safety and health profession is the availability of resources. This article is about our top 10 resources for Safety and Health Professionals. Resources are essential to the understanding and development of safety and health policies and procedures. They also give us the opportunity to create and implement proven…
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What is your recipe for safety? What is a functioning safety and health system? Let’s compare this system to a system used in the foodservice industry. How does a foodservice operation assure a food menu item is served consistently and safely? “When I meet with restaurant operators to help them with food cost control and…
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If bigger jobs is the goal, industrial contractors need to be aware of the importance of their safety personnel. Safety professionals play a vital role in any industrial contracting business, and it is crucial to find the right people for the job. In this blog, we will discuss how you can find the best safety…
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What is OSHA’s Focus Four and which controls can we implement to mitigate the risk? In the world of safety and health management systems (SHMS), safety professionals control worker exposure to hazards using a systematic approach. The old hierarchy approach was to start with implementing an engineering control, followed by an administrative control, and ending…
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As most of us know, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, OSHA, is the workplace governing body for the safety of workers in a variety of industries. The thing that most of us do not know, is how to implement it. Most of the safety and health management systems do not know how that system…
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