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    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 Underwriters Laboratories product safety standards  NSC safety resources and accident data NFPA fire prevention standards  NIOSH occupational health publications ACGIH occupational health publications   When buying safety products ...

  The National Safety Council publishes a monthly magazine called “Safety + Health”.   It contains information on: new safety standards, the latest safety and health products,  international safety initiatives,  safety tips, workplace solutions, safety news, forms, checklists,  job board, and a training calendar.  The current digital version of this magazine can be viewed here.   When buying ...

0 An employers’ occupational safety and health program can get stale without the periodic infusion of new ideas.   One way to learn what’s working at other employers in your area is to participate in your local safety organizations. There are two large national/international safety associations that likely have a local chapter in your area.  Both offer a ...

      The OSHA website, www.osha.gov , is both wonderful and confusing.   Wonderful because it has lots of great occupational safety and health resources on it.  Confusing because there’s far too much stuff on it (thousands of pages), and once you get familiar with it they seem to completely change it’s layout and navigation. I used ...

    Every occupational safety and health practitioner in the U. S. needs to keep up-to-date on the latest changes to the federal OSHA standards.  This is not as onerous as you might think.  OSHA standards remain relatively stagnant from year to year.  There are actually very few broad and significant changes in any given ...

    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 favorite free on-line workplace safety and health magazines.  Just click on the bolded hyperlink to sign up for your free subscription.  Safety + Health is the National Safety Councils’ award-winning ...

    Like LinkedIn.com,  there’s another website that is a worldwide network of professionals willing to share advice, answer questions, provide expert second opinions, and even help you find a job.   This “other” site offers free subscriptions, and currently has 2,000 members in their preeminent occupational safety and health section.  All messages are “moderated” which means each posting is reviewed before distribution.  ...

    All employers in the USA and Canada are required to obtain and maintain MSDSs (Material Safety Data Sheets) on all potentially hazardous chemicals that are used, generated, or stored in their workplaces.  The job of finding, organizing, and updating MSDSs often falls on the shoulders of the employers’ safety coordinator.     Finding up-to-date, well written, comprehensive MSDSs ...

    Let’s say that you want to perform an ergonomic assessment of a job, but you have never done one before.  Where can you go to find a simple, but good, ergonomic assessment tool (or form) that you can use? Federal OSHA has three industry specific “Guidance Publications” on ergonomics.  They have been developed for grocery stores, ...

    The Texas Department of Insurance has a web-page that lists over 100 occupational safety and health links.  Their links (below) are organized by subject, and include websites that provide free safety references and resources on – Anthrax OSHA Anthrax eTool Accident Investigation Department of Energy (DOE) Workbook: Conducting Accident Investigations Airline Industry Safety OSHA Assistance for the Airline Industry ...