Last week I received an email from Jim Thomson, a PhD engineer from the UK, inviting me to check out his website.  Jim is a safety consultant who specializes in high hazard industries such as nuclear plants, oil & gas, and refining. He has developed safety processes and systems designed to...

What are the best occupational safety books of all time?  Certainly, there is no definitive answer to this question.   Here’s a list of Safety Awakenings’ all time favorite safety texts, complete with links to where you can purchase them.  Some selections are vintage texts, while others are modern...

Listed below are a few websites where you can purchase popular safety reference books, safety and health consensus standards, and other helpful safety resources – Safety books ANSI safety standards NFPA fire prevention standards  NIOSH occupational health publications ACGIH occupational health publications

  Warehouse & Forklift Safety Resources Below are links to our favorite free safety resources for employees who work  with forklifts in warehousing, loading docks and distribution.  These best safety practices include: tool box talks, bulletins, fact sheets, safety rules, posters, checklists, model programs, PowerPoints and videos.  Please feel...

The Best Search Engine If you’re just not finding the information you need searching on Google, try our “Best Search Engine”.  It will help you to find high-quality technical information that is hidden from Google. Our best search engine was developed with the help of PhD’s who told us...

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 manager at...

Here's a critical review of 30 low cost sound level meter apps. See how each one compares to a $2,000 precision sound level meter!