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How to Become a Safety Manager
By Eric Gislason Compliance
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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Anhydrous Ammonia Leak Hospitalizes 38
05.14.2019 Current EventsNearly 40 individuals, comprised of mostly emergency responders, are hospitalized after a leaking anhydrous ammonia tank being transported by a…
NASP Talks Training
05.14.2019 Current EventsAnhydrous ammonia, among many other chemicals, can pose serious hazards to human health. As we’ve seen in this article, emergency…
Breezing Through to the Windy City
05.14.2019 Live ClassesDates have changed! NASP if offering our Certified Safety Manager (CSM) course on September 16th-20th in Chicago! We are currently…
Locking Out Decision Fatigue
05.07.2019 ComplianceIf you wanted to summarize the safety profession for a layperson, you would do well to start with lockout/tagout (LOTO)…
DOT HAZMAT Shipping Key Definitions
04.30.2019 ComplianceWhat are the DOT HAZMAT Shipping Key Definitions? Dangerous goods: Interchangeable with the term “hazardous materials” and mainly used in…
Controlling Hazardous Energy with Lockout/Tagout—Common Challenges and Best Practices
04.23.2019 ComplianceWe have found that only about 10 percent of companies run effective lockout programs. In fact, we have observed that…
Temporary structure, permanent safety
04.17.2019 ComplianceHelp keep employees safe during all stages of scaffolding work On a November day in 1994, a 60-year-old painter foreman…
NASP Takes on the Windy City
04.17.2019 Live ClassesWhy should you attend our Certified Safety Manager course in Chicago in June? The number one reason why students attend…
Trenching and excavation safety
04.12.2019 ComplianceProper protective systems, competent person key to incident prevention George Kennedy can recall multiple incidents involving unprotected workers and trench…
Charleston Certified Safety Manager Course
04.12.2019 Live ClassesCreating a safety culture in the workplace can be difficult. NASP’s Certified Safety Manager Course provides the tools necessary to…
Acosta to Lawmakers: ‘I fully expect’ Inspections to Increase
04.11.2019 Current EventsSecretary of Labor R. Alexander Acosta touted the number of annual OSHA inspections over the past two fiscal years –…
OSHA Considers Updates to Powered Industrial Truck Standard
04.11.2019 Current EventsOSHA is looking for help from the public as it considers an update to its powered industrial trucks standard. The…