Severe weather emergencies and other natural disasters can strike any workplace or home, often without warning. If you’re not adequately prepared to respond to such events, the potential for injuries and even death is heightened. In this article, we’ll cover the responsive measures you can take to keep yourself and your employees out of harm’s way.
EHS Hero’s LOTO tool is cross-functional and convenient, allowing you to create LOTO procedures that meet your unique needs, keep them organized, and access them on any device. This way, you can ensure your employees have the information they need to stay safe and your organization has the tools to achieve compliance.
Before implementing BLR’s environment, health, and safety (EHS) management solution, EHS Hero®, Basalite was relying on e-mail to assign action items to team members, which didn’t provide a systematic way to follow up on whether tasks were done. This created a challenge in keeping track of who was responsible for which action and by when it should be completed.
An easy way to get started on a lean manufacturing safety program is through the waste identification and removal process. When considering each step of a potential improvement, the team should consider ergonomics, safety, and health before the step is implemented. This can help reduce the biggest waste of all: injuries.
Workplace injuries can crush employee morale and tarnish your business’s reputation. It’s never too late to reduce risk and prevent major accidents. In this article, you’ll learn risk management strategies and tools you can use to decrease incidents across the safety pyramid.
Eliminate electro-mechanical hazards, help your employees get home safely, avoid OSHA penalties, and simplify your LOTO program with EHS Hero’s LOTO tool.
Drug and alcohol abuse can leave workers and commercial motor vehicle (CMV) drivers impaired. As more states have decriminalized cannabis, its growing acceptance has become a special challenge for those employing workers in safety-sensitive positions. But impairment isn’t the only risk controlled substances pose. In this article brought to you by the EHS Daily Advisor, we’ll cover the basics on drug and alcohol impairment in the workplace.
In this segment of our Ask The Expert series, an EHS Hero subscriber asked the question, “For TRI reports, are the quantities of a single listed toxic chemical present in two different mixtures added together for threshold determination calculations when the quantity in one mixture is below the de minimis level and the quantity in the other mixture is above the de minimis level?” In this article, you can read the answer provided by our in-house team of EHS experts.
A risk assessment template can be used to examine workplace hazards, help assess injury severity and likelihood, and help implement control measures to reduce risk. Read about the benefits of using a risk assessment and download our free template for your own use here.
Every business owner wants to save on costs, especially when it comes to expensive equipment. However, overusing older equipment or failing to perform routine maintenance has the potential to result in defective equipment. And when this happens, it can reflect poorly on your company in a number of ways. Read on to learn about the risks your organization can face by not taking steps to prevent defective equipment.