Four Considerations to Achieve Health and Safety Compliance

Over a series of three blogs we are going to examine how to achieve health and safety process excellence. There are three main objectives that EHS professionals must fulfill to achieve their health and safety goals: maintain compliance, anticipate and manage hazards, and improve safety culture.

Safety Compliance

This first blog is going to focus on the building blocks that create the foundation for maintaining safety compliance and engaging in continuous improvement. Some keys to achieving this objective are automating reports and document control to ensure consistency between departments and locations, tracking employee training as well as audits and corrective actions and automating compliance with various federal, state or province or local regulations.

Creating the Right Solution

Technology can assist your organization in maintaining all those records and help you ensure that your facility complies with local regulations. In fact, technology has become an essential tool in achieving process excellence … Read more...

EHS This Week: Gross Workplace Habits, OSHA gets Social and More!

On this week’s edition of EHS This Week we’ve got the week’s top stories in environment, health and safety news:

  • Gross Workplace Habits
  • OSHA to host a Twitter chat
  • Black Friday Safety Hazards

Remember to write us with your suggestions, questions and comments. Also, if you are an industry expert and ever want to take part in the program, we’d love to have you. Until next week, enjoy the program!

EHS This Week Resources

For more information on the stories and resources mentioned in this week’s podcast, check out the links below.

  • OSHA’s letters to major retailers, retail associations and fire associations. Read them here
  • OSHA Fact Sheet on Crowd Management Safety Guidelines for Retailers. View it here

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EPA’s Stance on TCE, Young Worker Safety, “Unisex” PPE Concerns, and more on EHS This Week!

On this week’s edition of EHS This Week we’ve got the week’s top stories in environment, health and safety news:

  • Protecting against outdoor worker hazards
  • EPA wants stronger laws to decrease health risks of TCE
  • Results of a new survey on workplace noise levels
  • OSHA worried about safety of young workers
  • Ill-fitting PPE may present a hazard to female workers

Remember to write us with your suggestions, questions and comments. Also, if you are an industry expert and ever want to take part in the program, we’d love to have you.

Until next week, enjoy the program!

EHS This Week Resources

For more information on the stories and resources mentioned in this week’s podcast, check out the links below.

  • OSHA’s David Michaels’ Blog Post: Read it here.
  • OSHA’s Resources for Young Workers. Check them out here.
  • EPA Trichloroethylene (TCE) Alternatives and Risk Reduction Workshop. Find out more here.
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Ending Distracted Driving, Obesity and Safety Hazards, Dogs in the Workplace and more on EHS This Week

On this week’s edition of EHS This Week we’ve got the week’s top stories in environment, health and safety news:

  • Implementing a successful “No Distracted Driving” policy
  • NHS transparency initiative for UK hospitals
  • OSHA releases hazard bulletin for tree care workers
  • Obesity and safety hazards in the workplace
  • Health & safety implications of bringing dogs to work

Remember to write us with your suggestions, questions and comments. Also, if you are an industry expert and ever want to take part in the program, we’d love to have you.

Until next week, enjoy the program!

EHS This Week Resources

For more information on the stories and resources mentioned in this week’s podcast, check out the links below.

  • “No Distracted Driving” Policy Case Study: Read it here.
  • NSC’s Distracted Driving Research and Statistics: Check them out here.
  • OSHA Hazard Bulletin for Tree Care Work – Falls and Falling Object Hazards:
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