How can you hold effective toolbox talks to ensure your team is safer on the job?
By Michael Blanchard, Amanda Pederson
Feb 24, 2021
A toolbox talk, or tailgate talks, are typically given to a small group of workers early in their shift. The talks will usually detail one specific safety topic or issue that you would like your team to focus on for the day. Toolbox Talks are usually quite a bit less structured and formal compared to a regular safety training course and are not meant to be in depth reviews, but rather, used to keep a topic front of mind.
Protect your people: Understand how ISO 45001 considers the changing work environment and the effect it has on its employees, both physically and mentally.
There are new pandemic-driven, occupational risks that safety managers now have to contend with related to the new-normal of home-based working and changes to the workplace environment; each of these magnify gaps in traditional, compliance-focused organizational safety management systems. Beyond workplace environment hazards, there are new considerations for how work is organized and sensitivities to social factors that affect the psychosocial wellness in workforces.
ISO 45003 Occupational health and safety management Psychological health and safety at work
ISO 45005 Occupational health and safety management General guidelines for safe working during the COVID-19 pandemic
COVID-19 Clarity: The Latest on OSHA and CDC Compliance
COVID-19 has created a dynamic, challenging regulatory compliance environment for health and safety professionals and in-house counsel. Holland & Hart attorneys Robert Ayers and Dora Lane will provide pragmatic guidance to help you understand:
Interplay of federal agency guidance and state guidance
Best practices for employers to implement guidance and track compliance
OSHA enforcement: examples of recent enforcement action and how to be prepared when OSHA comes knocking
COVID-19 Testing and Vaccines: benefits and challenges of voluntary and mandated approaches
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Safety Directors Have Spoken: Footwear Struggles You Might be Having
A survey sent to safety directors has narrowed down the top struggles workers have with their protective footwear. Listen along as Editor Sydny Shepard and Vice President of Marketing at Warson Brands discuss the results of the survey and more.
By Sydny Shepard
Feb 22, 2021
I’m sure you’ve heard it before: Everyone should be getting 10,000 steps a day. For some, that is a hard to reach goal as their jobs rely on desk work or other types of sedentary tasks. For others though, such as individuals in the manufacturing or construction industries, getting 10,000 steps just requires them to work a portion of their 8-hour shift, making feet tired, sore and possibly leading to chronic conditions. These industries also present numerous tasks that can bring harm to feet such as slips, trips and falls, crushing injuries and more.
5 Reasons Industrial Vacuum Cleaners Need to be Part of Your Dust Control Program
Sweeping or blowing fugitive dust during housekeeping is widely discouraged by OSHA and the NFPA for nearly all industries. Seemingly benign, dusts create an assortment of hazards that include flying particles that can lead to eye injury, slip hazards and ergonomic injuries. The most serious hazards surrounding the sweeping and blowing of dust threaten lives, such as respiratory and explosion hazards. The use of industrial vacuums to remove dust is almost always recommended as a preferred method of removing fugitive dust. Rather than redistributing dust, industrial vacuum cleaners remove dusts and therefore reduce or eliminate the previously mentioned hazards.