One of our favorite property/casualty insurance companies offers over 200 free downloadable workplace safety posters.  EMC Insurance out of Des Moines Iowa has a webpage you can visit to check out these modern, color, high-quality safety posters. Many of these posters are offered in both English and Spanish.  ...

Here’s a link to a free copy of the Department of Defense’s 98-page publication entitled Standard Practice – System Safety (MIL-STD-882E).  Contractors who build things for the United States’ Department of Defense must comply with these system safety standards.  This publication says: This system safety standard practice is a...

– OSHA’s Top 10 2015 Safety Violations Every year OSHA publishes an updated list of it’s top 10 most frequently cited occupational safety and health violations. Our friends at CreativeSafetyPublishing.com just published a free, downloadable, infographic on OSHA’s top 10 violations for 2015.  Click here to download a full-sized,...

    Toxicology is defined as the science of poisons.  It involves the study of the effects of chemicals on living organisms.  A toxicologist is one who specializes in the study of the effects of poisons on the human body. Toxicology is a broad field of study.  Some toxicologists specialize in “product safety”, while others specialize...

    14 Free On-Line Safety Magazines Reading safety magazines is an excellent way to stay on top of the latest safety related – products, websites, regulations, equipment, and events.  The following are our 16 favorite free on-line workplace safety and health magazines (in no particular order).    Safety + Health is...

– On-the-Job Stretching Programs Workplace on-the-job stretching programs are controversial, some safety professionals believe in them while others think they are a waste of time. I developed a highly successful on-the-job stretching program at one large manufacturer.  After a few weeks into the program, the union employees liked stretching so much that when their supervisor was...

Examples of Light Duty (Transitional) Jobs Getting an injured worker back to work as soon as possible after an on-the-job injury is an important way to control the cost of a workers compensation claim.   Offering light duty (transitional) jobs to an employee who is released to return to work with medical restrictions can...