Category: Safety

5 Forklift safety guidelines every employer should follow

To ensure your workers are fully equipped to operate forklifts without causing accidents, it’s important to go beyond teaching them general safety policies. Even if they’re already competent and well trained, you need to ensure they fully understand the specific hazards of forklift operation and prevention measures they can take.

Q&A: Shelter areas during extreme weather

In this Q&A, our subject matter experts respond to the question, ‘What areas can we use to shelter employees in the event of a tornado or extreme weather?’ which was submitted by an EHS Hero® subscriber.

Essential steps for safely responding to natural disasters

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.

Watch Lockout Tagout (LOTO) tool on-demand demo

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.

How Basalite improved task completion rates with BLR’s CAPA Tool

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.

Make your EHS program work for you with lean manufacturing

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.

Protect yourself from the safety pyramid

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.

Simplify your Lockout/Tagout program

Eliminate electro-mechanical hazards, help your employees get home safely, avoid OSHA penalties, and simplify your LOTO program with EHS Hero’s LOTO tool.

Back to basics: Drug and alcohol impairment

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.