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How to Become a Safety Manager

How to Become a Safety Manager

The work of a safety manager can be fulfilling as you get to promote and improve safety in your workplace. However, it’s not always an easy job, and getting qualified can be challenging without the right credentials. You must consider whether you have the right traits, if you plan to get a degree, which industry…
How to Save Money By Developing Your Own Safety Programs

How to Save Money By Developing Your Own Safety Programs

While prioritizing workplace safety is essential, it can also be expensive. Developing safety programs internally instead of outsourcing training can protect employees and financial assets. Whether you’re a business owner or manager, equipping yourself or a staff member to develop safety programs can save your company money. Alongside the financial benefits of having a team…
How to Maintain Accurate Safety Records

How to Maintain Accurate Safety Records

Maintaining safety records helps keep your organization legally compliant and builds a culture where every employee returns home safely each day. Safety records rarely make headlines unless something goes wrong, but when an accident happens, they provide critical information. They can reveal emerging patterns linked to workplace dangers, and lives can be saved when action…
OSHA Recordkeeping Requirements

OSHA Recordkeeping Requirements

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) covers standards for safe and healthy workplaces in the United States. It establishes regulations, performs inspections, conducts training and education, and works with state agencies and other industry regulators. OSHA also establishes safety recordkeeping requirements to track and monitor workplace accidents in various industries. Learn more about OSHA…
Guide to Navigating Safety Audits

Guide to Navigating Safety Audits

Safety audits are structured processes that evaluate how effectively your organization’s safety programs, procedures, and systems function. Think of this as a health check for your safety management system (SMS). The primary objective is identifying gaps, ensuring compliance, and driving continuous improvement. Audits also show employees that leadership is invested in their safety, fostering greater…

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Survey Says…

Survey Says…

04.12.2023 Current Events
A recent Fluke Safety Survey (specializing in electrical safety products) sought to identify trends in various workplace safety-related topics. The…
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OSHA Proves Extreme Heat Hazard, Fails to Propose Abatement

OSHA Proves Extreme Heat Hazard, Fails to Propose Abatement

04.12.2023 Compliance
In a series of heat illness-related cases involving the United States Postal Service (USPS), OSHA successfully established extreme heat as…
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Advocacy Groups Want OSHA to Regulate Worker Surveillance Tech

Advocacy Groups Want OSHA to Regulate Worker Surveillance Tech

04.12.2023 Compliance
Twenty-one worker advocacy organizations issued a letter to the Biden administration asking for OSHA to protect workers from workplace surveillance…
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Have These Letters Behind Your Name?

Have These Letters Behind Your Name?

03.13.2023 Compliance
Are you interested in NASP’s beta exams, but are not sure whether you qualify for them? If you have earned…
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Watchdog: OSHA Should Improve Complaints & Referrals Process

Watchdog: OSHA Should Improve Complaints & Referrals Process

03.13.2023 Compliance
The Department of Labor Office of Inspector General (OIG) commissioned a third-party audit of OSHA which found the agency didn’t…
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Lawsuit May Jeopardize OSHA

Lawsuit May Jeopardize OSHA

03.13.2023 Current Events
Nineteen attorneys general filed an amicus brief in Allstates Refractory Contractors LLC v. Walsh, a case that challenges OSHA’s ability…
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Walsh Addresses FY 2024 Budget

Walsh Addresses FY 2024 Budget

03.13.2023 Current Events
The Biden-Harris administration recently released President Biden’s budget for fiscal year 2024. “President Biden’s 2024 budget request of $15.1 billion…
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Fatal Work Injuries Up 9% in 2021

Fatal Work Injuries Up 9% in 2021

03.13.2023 Current Events
There were 5,190 fatal work injuries in the U.S. in 2021, an 8.9% increase from 4,764 in 2020, according to…
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Fatalities Involving People of Color Reach Record High

Fatalities Involving People of Color Reach Record High

02.10.2023 Current Events
The share of Black or African American workers fatally injured on the job reached an all-time high in 2021, increasing…
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Workplace Stress Under General Duty Clause?

Workplace Stress Under General Duty Clause?

02.10.2023 Compliance
Workplace stress may soon join them as a new hazard that OSHA will use the General Duty Clause to address.…
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Repeat Offenders Beware: Severe Violator Enforcement Program Broadens Scope

Repeat Offenders Beware: Severe Violator Enforcement Program Broadens Scope

02.10.2023 Compliance
After all, no employer wants to be cited for safety violations or, worse yet, placed in OSHA’s Severe Violator Enforcement…
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More Inspectors = More Inspections

More Inspectors = More Inspections

02.10.2023 Current Events
After losing momentum under the Trump administration and making its share of mistakes throughout the pandemic, OSHA has spent much…
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