Heat Stress Resources   Below are links to our favorite free on-line heat stress resources (posters, bulletins, videos, alerts, Power Points, apps).  You may want to incorporate some of these valuable heat stress resources into your employee heat stress prevention program.      It’s HOT out there!...

    I’ve worked at factories that had extremely hot operations!   Under normal operating conditions, the temperatures on the work floor would exceed 100 degrees.  You add to that a mid-summer heat wave, and you have a dangerous combination. Here are 14 proven methods you might want to use...

  The Donald Trump Of Safety   Donald Trump tells it like it is!  There are two types of people who can be brutally honest – billionaires (like Mr. Trump) and retirees.  Both are financially secure and don’t care much about the consequences of not being PC (politically correct).  ...

    Workplace Safety Talks   Lovetoknow.com is a fun website to visit.  They claim to have “everything you’d love to know”.  One of the many subjects that they cover is workplace safety.   Lovetoknow.com has about 70, short, free workplace safety talks on a wide range of workplace safety and...

      Construction Tool Box Talks One of the more popular and well established websites that provides free tool box (toolbox) safety talks is www.toolboxtopics.com.   – The toolboxtopics.com tool box safety talks are divided into two sections – general industry and construction safety talks.  Below are the links...

    Below are links to our favorite free workplace safety and health resources for small businesses.  These best safety practices include: tool box talks, bulletins, fact sheets, safety rules, posters, checklists, model programs, PowerPoints and videos. Please feel free to tell your friends who work at small businesses about these totally...

    I started SafetyAwakenings.com nine years ago this month.  Since its’ inception, I’ve published over 600 articles on best safety practices and safety excellence. I wrote these articles from the unique perspective of someone with 40-years of experience as a: safety consultant, OSHA inspector, university professor, and EHS...

    OSHA is the main federal agency charged with the enforcement of workplace safety and health standards in the United States of America.  It is a large governmental agency with thousands of pages of complex standards.  Understanding these voluminous standards and regulations is a daunting task. In the last...

  – Articles For HR Professionals With Safety Responsibilities     These days, we often find that HR professionals also have safety responsibilities – At many medium and small-sized companies, managers will wear two hats.  For example, the HR manager may be responsible for both HR duties and administering...

    In my 40 year safety career, I’ve found that companies with the lowest turnover rates in their type of industry usually also have low accident rates and excellent safety cultures.  While there are certainly more precise and scientific measures of safety culture,  I believe that turnover rates provide the best quick, easy, and cheap...