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What Happens When You Don’t Wear Safety Glasses?

Work Gearz

Did you know that eye injury at the workplace is fatal? If you don’t wear safety glasses, it can cause permanent loss of vision, eye injuries that might leave you unfit to carry out your work anymore, and hefty medical bills that’ll be too hard to settle. . ANSI sets prevention guidelines for safety glasses at work.

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Examining OSHA’s Pending IIPP Standard

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OSHA is directing its efforts toward enforcing a standard in which employers nationwide will be required to establish a thorough, written injury and illness prevention program (IIPP). This standard, however, will make it a requirement as well as set guidelines for what must be included in the program. Why is OSHA pursuing it?

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YOUR PERSONAL LIABILITY FOR WORKPLACE SAFETY

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As an employer, your greatest responsibility is that of your workers’ well-being. It was designed to provide a set of broad guidelines which employers must follow to achieve maximum safety compliance. The guarantee of a safe workplace was originally granted by the Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Act of 1970.

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From Zero to Hero: Construction Risk Management

Safety Services Company

Safety risks can include injuries, fatalities, and illnesses brought upon by employee negligence, equipment failure, weather, or other external factors. Also known as management risks, project risks involve hazards like mismanagement of funds, inefficiency, and lack of proper operational guidelines. Project Risks. Legal Risks.

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From Zero to Hero: Construction Risk Management

Safety Services Company

Safety risks can include injuries, fatalities, and illnesses brought upon by employee negligence, equipment failure, weather, or other external factors. . Also known as management risks, project risks involve hazards like mismanagement of funds, inefficiency, and lack of proper operational guidelines. . Project Risks. Legal Risks.

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Rapid Response Investigations: Beware of OSHA Safe Harbor

FDR Safety

Employers should pay close attention to OSHA’s recent revisions to its enforcement procedures on injury reporting, particularly those dealing with Rapid Response Investigations, which the agency frequently asks companies to conduct after a reportable injury.

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Mastering construction project management with 6 key strategies

Fieldwire

For example, falls, scaffolding and ladders are frequent causes of OSHA violations and can lead to permanent injuries that affect a worker’s entire career. Compare that to the price of a typical worker’s compensation claim at $41,747. Effective construction project management requires you to balance multiple moving parts.