5/10/2021 The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 provided for the establishment of our Occupational Safety and Health Administration, known as OSHA. It’s primary purpose: to ensure a safe and healthful workplace for the American Worker. The organization is headed up by the Assistant Secretary of Labor, who in Read more…
6/29/2020 Working at Department of Energy and Department of Defense projects as well as wastewater treatment facilities, our commitment to employee safety requires that persons in the field follow our various work procedures verbatim. This word, verbatim, comes from the Latin, and means, “exactly as written.” So, when we are Read more…
3/1/2021 Today, as we are amid the SARS-Co-2 Corona virus pandemic, epidemiologists are warning that this may only be a chapter in our world’s history of world-wide illnesses with future cases of diseases spreading across the globe yet to come. The fact is, the world has continuously been plagued by Read more…
3/8/2021 It happened on May 27, 1987 in a warehouse owned and operated by a large paint manufacturer in Dayton, Ohio, where a workman, using a forklift, contacted the storage rack system while backing up. This action caused several cans of paint and flammable liquids to be knocked over. The Read more…
11/4/2019 I remember the very first time I saw someone talking on a mobile phone while driving. It was back in the 1980’s when these devices were the size of a shoe box. The woman talking and driving seemed to be a successful business person, driving her Mercedes while appearing Read more…
10/21/2019 I think it is safe to say that trying to understand why people do things has been a curiosity as old as time. In the field of S&H, rules and regulations have been written to help provide workers in the US and throughout the world with processes to help Read more…
10/13/2014 Nationally, crashes involving a large truck or bus killed 4,281 people in 2013. Unfortunately, this number has not changed in the past four years. A few weeks ago, on Friday September 26, a tracker-trailer crossed a southern Oklahoma highway median and plowed into the side of a Texas college Read more…
9/9/2019 S&H professionals always emphasize the importance of hazard recognition. That’s because, once a hazard is identified, the possibility of an incident occurring from that hazard is significantly reduced. The fact is, some of the greatest disasters of the world were the result of not seeing when danger was present. Read more…
8/12/2019 Lately, I have found myself conducting quite a number of respirator training classes. My typical opening question is, “when was the concept of wearing a respirator first conceived?” Most people automatically respond with “World War I.” True, respirators were used during this time, as this is when Chemical Warfare, Read more…
7/29/2019 After the second earthquake that hit California a few weeks ago (epicenter, Ridgecrest – a small desert community), Governor Gavin Newsom announced that there would be a re-assessment of the State’s building codes to ensure structures will be able to withstand future earthquakes of even greater magnitudes. This decision Read more…