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Safely operating large, potentially dangerous construction and agricultural equipment can be challenging. Information that enhances training and usage can help reduce the risks of working with such equipment.
One source of information about equipment safety is the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM), which has resources available to both its 900+ members and to the general public.

Full article: Info that can make operating heavy equipment safer
Source: Safety Best Practices

If there’s a workplace fatality, or if injury/illness rates are too high, or workplace hazards and risks are perceived to be great, employers, disgruntled workers and outside interested parties, such as OSHA, often seek an EHS revolution — rapid fundamental change.

Full article: Stay abreast of these evolving EHS requirements
Source: Safety Best Practices

With #womensmarch and #metoo bookending 2017, many U.S. employers are likely to establish new policies and procedures in 2018 to better manage workplace sexism. How does this practice impact occupational health and safety?

Full article: Does ISO 45001 address sexism?
Source: Safety Best Practices

OSHA has cut deals with employers and industry associations ever since the agency’s beginning. About one-third of cited employers don’t take OSHA’s deal. They just correct and pay. Will more of this group deal with OSHA in the future?

Full article: The art of the deal: Know how OSHA reaches settlements
Source: Safety Best Practices

Lack of deep cleaning and other actions/inactions help unwanted guests in the room, such as bed-bugs and germs, to multiply and spread to bedding and even packed clothes.

Full article: Safety tips as mobile workers multiply
Source: Safety Best Practices

Your plan must be based on your organization’s vision for future safety performance. Frame it as a set of actions that will: Further a safety culture change from reactive to proactive, provide the functioning capability to lead the change, and provide governance requirements to sustain the change.

Full article: Improving Safety Performance: Having an actionable safety plan
Source: Safety Best Practices

There’s a great imbalance between the two inseparable forces of safety and health. This imbalance is evident in Table I. The CSP® and the CIH® are the top safety and health credentials in our field. Both pre-date OSHA, and both have grown in quality and value over the years.

Full article: The benefits of holding CSP® & CIH® certifications
Source: Safety Best Practices

Old pros were trapped in a prescriptive career- the OSHA regulation says this, now do it. Doing it took nearly all of the pro’s time. There was little time for best practices. The old pros did, however, build great foundations upon which young pros may leap from compliance practices to conformance objectives.

Full article: Guidance for young OHS pros
Source: Safety Best Practices

I approached a couple of employees, and asked if one of them would volunteer to wear an air sampling pump. One employee, “If you tell me who you voted for president, I might wear the pump.” I knew at that point that I’d get some honest results from industrial hygiene (IH) sampling.

Full article: Behavior-based exposure sampling
Source: Safety Best Practices

Social nocebo1 is a contagious illness that impacts upwards of one-quarter of people who encounter it. Conditions are ripe for a rise of social nocebo in the workplace. The following are key actions that occupational safety and health pros must take to anticipate, recognize, evaluate and control social nocebo.

Full article: Self-diagnosis can lead to employee health complaints
Source: Safety Best Practices