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Hand Safety Misconceptions: How to Protect Working Hands

Hands are one of the most frequently injured parts of the body. Every year, over 100,000 people suffer a lost-time hand injury, and almost 1% of people hurt their hands on an annual basis. This makes hand safety a perennial challenge in many workplaces. And despite the clear need to reduce the severity and frequency…

How Modern HazCom Safety Can Benefit From Age-Old Risk Management Tactics

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) may be over five decades old, but that’s still quite young when you put it into a historical context. After all, people have been thinking about workplace safety for thousands of years. And many contemporary concepts, from risk perception to safety culture, have roots that extend deep into…

Connecting the Dots Between Construction Safety and Labor Trends

These days the job market in the construction industry is different than what we’re used to. The number of available workers in the labor pool has shrunk, employee mobility seems to have skyrocketed, and companies appear to be gun-shy about firing workers. In a recent article for Occupational Health & Safety magazine titled “Construction Safety…

The Dangers of Human Factors at Heights

The latest issue of Occupational Health & Safety magazine is focused on working at heights. And with good reason—it’s one of OSHA’s Fatal Four types of injuries in construction, and overall, it’s the second-largest cause of workplace deaths in the United States. And it’s not just falling from heights that can cause injuries, fatalities and…