With the wonder of snowfall come falls and not of the Niagara type. No, we’re talking about the bone breaking, tendon tearing, ligament loosening, and brain bruising kind of fall that happens when a winter cocktail of hydrogen and oxygen molecu...

Safety glasses are beautiful things.  Functional, comfortable, light, cheap, and they can save your eyesight.  Hard to beat the return-on-investment represented in a pair of safety glasses that cost only a few dollars.  So let’s ...

Under a silky moon, the air was audibly pin drop calm. It was a perfect night for flight. With zero hour nine PM, all hands were delightfully on deck. In the orchestration of final preparation, there was no time for reflection over yuletide tea. Over...

The last day of 2019 seems a good time to reflect on the year and peek into 2020. Year-end often brings financial reviews and sales and operational predictions for the next calendar year, and we’d be remiss to not include safety. After all, saf...

When Serving Up Safety as part of your regular foodservice, Burn Prevention should be at the top your cup. A hazard that is often overlooked or taken for granted is the elevated temperature of hot beverages such as coffee, coffee-based drinks, tea, o...

There’s cargo coming in and freight going out at a fast and furious pace in Shipping & Receiving.  With deadlines and commitments and no possibility to make time stand still, oftentimes drivers are eager and itching to leave the dock t...

When we think of hazardous materials, or HAZMAT for short, most think of chemicals that are manufactured for large businesses or a liquid that requires people to wear a “spacesuit” to be around it.  Refineries and chemical plants com...

The opening lyric from “Silver, Blue & Gold”, an old rock ballad by Bad Company goes like this: “In the beginning, I believed every word that you said.  Now that you're gone my world is in shreds…”  That&r...

Rear-end crashes are the most common type of vehicle collision accounting for 29% of all crashes. The National Safety Council reports that of the 37,100 fatal vehicle crashes in 2017, 2,700 were rear-end crashes resulting in 3,000 deaths. Drivers&rsq...

The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has approved a new A92 standard for aerial work platforms that becomes effective on March 1, 2020. This post will cover the changes to the equipment terminology, design, and use. All aerial equipment b...