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Accident Prevention

30 October

Personal Protective Equipment — Hazard assessment tool and certification form for OSHA

  • Posted by FDRsafety
  • Categories Accident Prevention, Articles, OSHA

This tool will help general industry employers meet OSHA requirements to assess workplaces for hazards that require employees to use personal protective equipment, such as special glasses, gloves, footwear, clothing, etc. The tool also allows employers to make the required certification to OSHA that you have conducted the survey. Access the tool.

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28 October

Free tool to conduct OSHA-required PPE assessment

  • Posted by Jim Stanley
  • Categories Accident Prevention, Enforcement, OSHA, Training

All general industry employers are required by OSHA to assess their workplace for hazards that would necessitate the use of personal protective equipment, known as PPE. If you are unsure how to conduct such an assessment, we are providing the …

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01 October

The ingredients of a strong safety performance

  • Posted by Mike Taubitz
  • Categories Accident Prevention, Research

If you want strong performance on safety, make sure senior management is behind it, put a safety management system in place and create a company culture that values it. Those were the findings at a recent meeting focused on The …

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14 September

5 steps to better contractor safety

  • Posted by FDRsafety
  • Categories Accident Prevention, Articles

Employers using contractors are no longer able to require them to retain exclusive responsibility for the safety and health of their employees. FDRsafety President Jim Stanley offers employers tips on creating a specific contractor safety program to address the new environment. Read the full article.

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14 September

Scary photos show log truck hooked to 7.2 kv primary power line

  • Posted by Jim Stanley
  • Categories Accident Prevention, Training

Knowing safety procedures is one thing. Using them is another. Download and view this power point of some scary photos that show what happened when a logger who tried to throw a hook over a pile of logs on a …

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29 August

Are we addressing the real safety risks faced by employees?

  • Posted by Mike Taubitz
  • Categories Accident Prevention

I just returned from a meeting at National Safety Council, where I had an opportunity to read a recent press release. The essence of the release is shown below. Discussions with industry colleagues suggest that we spend too much time …

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02 August

Using standards to identify and mitigate machine hazards (1st in a series on standards)

  • Posted by Mike Taubitz
  • Categories Accident Prevention

Many safety professionals are familiar with the myriad voluntary standards for facilities, machines, robots, risk assessment, management systems, ladders, lasers, etc. The list is staggering but I wish to focus on machine safety standards to help readers understand how they …

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28 July

An “abbreviated” primer on voluntary safety standards

  • Posted by Mike Taubitz
  • Categories Accident Prevention, Research

Most of us take voluntary safety standards for granted. As I look at my computer’s AC adapter, I see more than 20 symbols. As a consumer, I know that the manufacturer is declaring that the device conforms to numerous global, …

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30 June

Removing roadblocks to sustainable safety improvement

  • Posted by Mike Taubitz
  • Categories Accident Prevention, Safety and sustainability

Are you satisfied with the current state of your safety program? Have training, audits and attempts to change behavior not yielded the long-term results you desire? Do you feel like the safety department is carrying most of the load? Are …

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29 June

Scrambling to keep the Gulf cleanup safe

  • Posted by Jim Stanley
  • Categories Accident Prevention, OSHA, Safety and sustainability

The massive, expanding cleanup on the Gulf is creating safety challenges aplenty and both the government and private industry are scrambling to respond. We’ve seen the impact in our temporary safety personnel services. One Friday afternoon we were asked by …

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