Responsibilities of commercial laundry staff can include washing, drying, steaming, ironing, and chemically treating fabrics for use in hospitals, hotels, and other settings. Laundry can be heavy, treated with chemicals, and the work environment can ...

A hand held circular saw is one of the most common and potentially dangerous tools on the jobsite. Ease of use and versatility of this saw are factors that drive decisions which put the operator at risk of injury. It’s called a “skill” saw for a r...

What’s on the menu if you’re a leader in your restaurant or commercial kitchen? The answer, of course, is the safety of your professional staff. To create a well balanced menu, start by focusing on the industry’s common losses and/or those you may ...

Workplace violence can take place in many forms in the workplace, and when it does, it affects us all. Before an incident occurs, it is critical that your staff be prepared to recognize and respond to a situation.

MEMIC has adopted the highly regarded human resource information tool from Business and Legal Reports (BLR) to provide online advice for HR professionals. This special product is free to MEMIC customers and accessible through MEMIC’s Safety Director.

Employee training is an important part of your safety program no matter what your industry. MEMIC provides workshops and webinars covering a variety of subjects.

Workplace hazards are defined as circumstances that present the possibility of inflicting an injury to a worker. These hazards can be severe or minor, and the odds of producing an injury can range from very likely to remote.

Take an ordinary, manual pallet jack and kick it up a notch with the addition of an electric motor and, voila, you have a powered pallet jack. Wonderful, no more strain to the low back by having to overcome inertia (with brute force) to get the whee...

The famous physicist, Steven Hawking, once said, “I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.” I’m sure that Mr. Hawking would agree that workplace injurie...

It is in that “whoops” moment, when we lose the battle of upright balance to gravity, that we can sustain a FOOSH (fall on an outstretched hand) injury from reflexively trying to brace ourselves as we plummet to the ground. With our feet out from u...