Biological hazards, or biohazards, contain living organisms that can pose dangers to human health. In the workplace, these can include blood, human waste, pathogens, and more. Biological hazards are ...
Cognitive bias, specifically confirmation bias, can severely impact workplace safety by leading organizations to focus on the wrong areas of risk. Often, companies rely on injury data to determine the ...
Industrial workplaces are typically dangerous, with heavy machinery, hazardous substances and complex processes. Despite safety protocols, accidents still happen. According to the International Labour ...
Workplace safety and health, just like the title suggests, is a topic that is talked about very frequently. Given the pandemic, ensuring workplace safety has become more important than ever. This is ...
Gone are the days when workplace safety belongs only in factories and mines. In 2023 criminal charges can and will be brought in relation to hazards and their associated risks that traverse every ...
Work safety is everyone's shared responsibility in any organization. While policies and procedures are essential to workplace safety, they aren’t enough on their own. There needs to be a mindset in ...
Disabling injuries cost U.S. industries an estimated $1 billion in direct costs every week, according to OSHA data. In professions where inadequate safety procedures are a huge risk to the employee or ...
Cutting and welding tasks are performed either on a routine or infrequent basis in all industrial and commercial environments by maintenance personnel or contractors during the fabrication process, ...