Many organizations are encouraging employees to lose weight and stop smoking in hopes of scoring a win-win-win: the workers get healthier, the organization experiences fewer insurance claims, and less work time is lost to sickness. But FDRsafety CEO Fred Rine writes that fewer organizations are taking advantage of similar savings they could obtain if they took the same approach to employee safety off the job. Read the full article.
OSHA is delivering on its promise to organizations it considers to be “severe violators” – it is going to visit other facilities the organization owns to see if there are problems there as well. One example is U.S. Minerals Co., …
With the Republican takeover of the House early next year, the stage appears to be set for some clashes with OSHA over its agenda to substantially increase enforcement. One thing seems clear: changes to the OSH law proposed last year …
OSHA has for sometime been trying to clear up the confusion it created about fall protection standards for residential construction, but the proposed fix may still leave many issues unresolved. Last month, OSHA chief David Michaels said in a speech …
Thorough recordkeeping is essential to a strong safety program, but even companies that keep good records may be missing something in their numbers: the high risk presented by maintenance activities. About 6 percent of workers are involved in maintenance activities …
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FDRsafety was featured in an article about how businesses are using social media, such as blogs, to provide valuable information to their target audiences. Read the article.
We usually reserve this blog space for discussions of OSHA and other workplace safety issues. But today, we wanted to briefly depart to bring you some news about FDRsafety. It’s not often that a company brags about being No. 8, …
This summer, when Democrats were very much ruling the roost in Congress, there seemed to be a good chance that proposed changes to the OSH Act adding protection for whistleblowers and increasing penalties would pass at least in the House. …