Heat Stress Safety and Awareness

Heat Stress Safety and Awareness

As summer approaches, it is important to consider heat conditions for workers. Operations involving high temperatures, radiant heat sources, high humidity, direct physical contact with hot objects, or strenuous physical activities have a high potential for inducing...
OSHA Respirable Crystalline Silica Standard

OSHA Respirable Crystalline Silica Standard

Respirable crystalline silica is a common mineral used to make products such as glass, pottery, ceramics, bricks, and artificial stone. It is at least 100 times smaller than sand. Cutting, sawing, grinding, drilling, and crushing stone can result in worker exposures...
COVID-19 Training & Related OSHA Standards

COVID-19 Training & Related OSHA Standards

Many issues have arisen that have changed the way we do business and go about our daily lives, from work to home, related to the COVID-19 Pandemic. Considering our own safety and well-being is more important now than ever. Workplace safety considerations are no...
Injury Reporting when Working from Home

Injury Reporting when Working from Home

As many of us are working from home, it is important to understand how this affects OSHA injury and illness reporting. The Recording and Reporting Occupational Injuries and Illness Standard OSHA CFR 1904.5(b)(7)  states that when employees are working at home,...
How to Perform an Ergonomic Study

How to Perform an Ergonomic Study

Author: Stacy Stone Ergonomics is the science of matching job tasks to workers’ capabilities. Through the principles of ergonomics, jobs can be redesigned and improved to be within reasonable limits of human capabilities. Ergonomic assessments are an objective study...