Today (January 13, 2021), the U.S. Supreme Court blocked the OSHA's emergency temporary standard requiring businesses with more than 100 employees to ensure workers are vaccinated against the coronavirus or wear masks and undergo.
From slippery elevated work areas to white-knuckle driving in blizzard conditions, winter poses some serious challenges to workers across much of North America. Here are seven statistics related to working in winter conditions:
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After over 25 years of preaching and teaching it, I’ve come to realize that safety is a culture, not just a workday activity. It is a part of our lives. Accordingly, successful safety programs.
The first week of 2022 offers an opportunity to stand on a soapbox and do a little bit of forecasting for the year ahead, so here goes.
Between the massive potential fines and civil liabilities.
As the Omicron variant is spreading and rapidly becoming the dominant strain across North America, there are resurging issues with testing, vaccinations, quarantine timelines, social distancing and everything that we have all been moving.
This desire for measurement and feedback—for keeping score–is critical to how we live our lives. It is also the key to the success of our safety program. For one reason, it lets us know how.
As with other hazards, worker education and training are crucial to preventing cold stress. By the time they complete their training, workers need to understand:
What cold stress is;
Why it’s dangerous;
How to protect themselves.
Driving in winter weather conditions poses certain challenges, including slippery roads, reduced visibility, etc. Here are 10 safety tips to give your workers—especially but not just those who drive as part of their duties.
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Are you doing enough to protect your workers against the risks of cold-stress? If one of your workers should suffer a serious or fatal cold-stress injury, could you and your company be liable?
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Discipline has gotten a bad rap. In the workplace setting, those who decry discipline include both the administrators who should be dishing it out and representatives of employees who should be receiving it. The.
