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Eye on Safety: What to expect when OSHA inspects

What you need to know about OSHA inspections gone wrong.

November 10, 2020

Unfortunately, many people think they know about the consequences of an OSHA inspection gone wrong, but they don’t. This can have dire consequences financially or even criminally.

Eye on Safety: Injury prevention is an ART form

Does this scenario sound familiar?

Bill D'Amico

September 28, 2020

Employee Jones to supervisor: “Hey boss, just want you to know I tweaked my back lifting that box of parts onto the conveyor. No big deal, I can continue working.”

Eye on Safety: OSHA's General Duty Clause

What you need to know.

Braford T. Hammock

September 11, 2020

As the United States remains in the grip of the COVID-19 pandemic, significant attention has been placed on the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA” or the “Agency”) and the efforts taken by the Agency to help in the federal response.

Working through a heat wave

What health and safety signs to look for.

Nate Orland

August 4, 2020

After a long, gray winter, the sun is shining, the birds are chirping and the mercury is rising — and rising, and rising.

Working through a heat wave

Nate Orland

July 28, 2020

After a long, gray winter, the sun is shining, the birds are chirping and the mercury is rising — and rising, and rising. For several weeks in the spring, outdoor work was comfortable — even preferable to indoor work. But by mid- to-late June, the temps began to take their toll.

Jim Kendzel: Time to be recognized for your worker safety excellence

ASA Safety Award applications now being accepted.

Jim Kendzel

June 29, 2020

The annual ASA Safety Award, sponsored by the ASA Safety Committee, recognizes ASA members that have shown they have gone above and beyond in the area of worker safety.

A crash course on work-relatedness

Brittney Cornillaud

June 10, 2020

With 2020 well underway, our safety professionals have printed off a fresh batch of OSHA 300 forms and are duly recording work-related fatalities, injuries and illnesses that occur in workplaces this year.

Jim Kendzel: Eye on safety

Top 10 OSHA violations of 2019

Jim Kendzel

May 12, 2020

We have all been focused on COVID-19, and with all of the rapid changes occurring related to the pandemic, it is difficult to write an article that is not outdated before the publication date.

Hazard communication: Be great in these 3 areas

Michael Place

March 16, 2020

Imagine being a worker at a jobsite. It’s your fourth day on the job and you see a myriad of compressed gas cylinders stacked on a pallet being dropped off in your work zone.

Jim Kendzel: Does your company measure up?

Jim Kendzel

January 30, 2020

For much of its 130-year history, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has collected data and published reports on occupational injuries, illnesses and fatalities.