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10 Essential Components For a Safer Working Environment
A safe working environment is a condition or state, it is not necessarily an event like an incident of an accident. This means that the low number of incidents or accidents doesn’t mean that the workplace is particularly safe. What really counts is the process of safety because it is an integral part of everyday…
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Basic Emergency Response Plan
This Basic Emergency Response Plan template is useful for small businesses that want an emergency response plan, when it is only required to have a verbal plan. Having a written plan over a verbal plan provides additional safeguards, so all employees know the same responses to emergencies, and it can be referenced during an actual…
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How to Develop an Internal Safety Audit Schedule
An internal safety audit program is used by an organization to evaluate the effectiveness of the procedures and processes used to meet OHS legislative and other statutory administrative requirements. An internal safety audit schedule is a considered approach by an organization to identify the extent and methods by which to conduct safety related audit verification…
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Developing an Effective Internal Marketing Plan
Internal marketing is one of the most complicated forms of marketing there is. Internal marketing is when a business markets its products, services and brand to its own employees. Instead of “selling” to consumers (external marketing), the business sells to its employees, treating them like internal consumers — which they are. The best way to…
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Accident Investigation Report
A proper investigation after an accident is best summarized with a post accident investigation report. This form is a summary of your entire investigation, and should be completed with assistance from all statements, evidence, witnesses, and the injured party. Accident investigations are intended to determine the cause of an incident, to identify unsafe conditions or…
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Contributing Factors: Lift, Push, Pull Injuries
Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs), these are injuries to the skeleton, muscles, cartilage, tendons, ligaments and joints that support and bind tissues and organs together so the body can move and sustain itself. MSDs are the most common injury at work. They cost the economy dearly in lost productivity and high workers compensation costs. This is despite…
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Property Damage – Accident Investigation Form
Many times when an accident occurs that is just property damage, it is overlooked in the investigation process, because no injury occurs. That is actually a root cause of an injury accident, because if property damage was investigated thoroughly, it could identify issues that if events were different could have resulted in an injury. When…
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Forklift Safety – Workplace Safety Series
With nearly 100,000 injuries or fatalities due to forklift accidents in the U.S. each year, proper training is a critical part of forklift safety. Forklifts present a unique workplace hazard for many reasons: they weigh at least double the weight of the average car, they carry very heavy loads at heights, they work in areas…
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Accident Analysis Report – SAMPLE
An accident analysis report should be conducted for every accident, but also conducting an accident analysis for a near miss will create a safer workplace. It may seem excessive to treat every near miss as a full accident, but a near miss is just an accident where someone didn’t happen, this time. A quality incident…
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5 Important Points in a Bloodborne Pathogen Training Program
Bloodborne pathogens are microorganisms that transmit disease via human blood and other body fluids. When a person is exposed to infected blood the pathogens can pass on to him/her. Therefore, healthcare workers need to be careful as they regularly deal with potentially infected blood and body fluids. Bloodborne pathogen training helps them to know about…