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Recognizing Complacency: Why You Need to Act Now

In any given moment, it’s hard to recognize whether you’re in a state of complacency. Here’s a quick test: ask yourself, “Am I being complacent?” See what we did there? You’ve likely figured out by now that if you’re thinking about complacency—enough to ask yourself that question—then you’re not being complacent. But stop thinking about…

How to Go Beyond Compliance for Complete Worker Safety

Achieving compliance is obviously a top priority for safety professionals. And while compliance training is an important element of reducing injuries, it’s not sufficient to fully protect workers from harm.  Compliance training generally does a good job of teaching people rules and procedures, but it doesn’t help prevent injuries off-the-job, which is where the vast…

4 Major Safety Issues for the Metal Fabrication Industry

Working in metal fabrication can sometimes require employees to engage in high-risk activities in order to properly perform their duties, including weld and manufacture ferrous materials. If you manage or are responsible for safety in a metal manufacturing facility, you know of the potential hazards that can befall workers. Every employee’s reaction in any situation…

5 Challenges of Construction Safety

Construction sites are dangerous places. Some of the dangers—like heavy construction equipment—is obvious. But there are also hidden dangers of working in construction that, while not obvious, lead to injuries every day. Protecting construction workers and creating a safe construction environment requires companies to go beyond the minimum safety rules and start addressing these five…