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Have a Happy - and Safe - Thanksgiving!

Every year, people throughout the United States spend quality time with family and friends they are most thankful for. However, with all the fun and festivities come serious dangers. From cooking fires to road trips, Thanksgiving dangers are sometimes forgotten during the holiday chaos.
Let’s keep our safety something we’re thankful for during this holiday season by keeping safety on our minds.

Safety Talks: What You Need To Know

Safety is like house work; doing a little bit each day helps you maintain a safe and organized environment.
Periodic safety talks are essential tools for achieving a positive workplace safety culture. Their presentation and the topics they cover are important in getting the safety message across.

Safety should be the first thing someone thinks about when starting and ending a workday, but after a while, work becomes routine and safety is forgotten. This can lead to injury incidents and near misses. Safety talks help keep safety on the forefront of the mind and employees safe from harm.

Hidden Dangers of Home Renovations: Silica, Asbestos, and Respiratory Protection

Physical hazards are generally taken seriously, but when hazards are invisible and their effects are delayed, they go unnoticed. Despite its importance, respiratory protection during home improvement projects is often times neglected, unlike hearing, sight, and body protection. You need your lungs to breathe just as much as you need your eyes to see and ears to hear, so why isn’t respiratory protection used as frequently?

Is Your Leadership Hurting Your BBS Program? Modeling the Way for Behavioral Change

If we can impact each employee’s behavior and create an environment in which we all make the right choices, we can create an injury free workplace. Many behavior based safety programs focus on the front line employees’ actions and not the actions, habits or behaviors of the organization’s managers.

Safety Communication Centers: The Workplace Accident Tracking Poster

Our EHS professionals use our workplace injury tracking SafetyFirst behavior based safety heat maps each day at our safety communication centers. Also, these centers are set up to communicate all safety information including injuries, near miss/safety opportunities, and other safety related information to all employees.



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