COVID-19 Updates from OSHA
To say this has been a busy year for OSHA would be an understatement. As COVID-19 continues to infect tens of thousands of Americans daily, OSHA has taken numerous enforcement actions in response to a growing number of complaints from workers concerned with a lack of...
National Safety Stand-Down: September 14th-18th
Falls from elevation continue to be the leading cause of deaths in the construction industry. In fact, according to the most recent data from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics, this category alone accounts for nearly a third of all construction worker...
Face the Facts: Wearing Masks On the Job
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to disrupt daily life and business activity across the country, face masks have emerged as one of the leading ways to cut down the rate of active transmission. In this post, we share information from OSHA in answer to the most common...
Safe+Sound Week: August 10th-16th
Based on data from the US Bureau of Labor and Statistics, the rates of worker injuries and deaths has dropped by over 60 percent. Even with these impressive gains, over 5,000 workers are killed at their place of work each year, while 3.6 million more experience a...
WSPA Channel 7 Interview: Navigating Workplace Safety During The COVID-19 Pandemic
Recently, David DeVita, owner of Carolina Safety Consultants, spoke WSPA Channel 7 to discuss the role employers must play in keeping their workers safe during the ongoing coronavirus outbreak. OSHA requires that all employers provide a safe working environment for...
How to Protect Your Workers from Accidental Hand Sanitizer Burns
Most people don't associate hand sanitizer with danger, but in the right conditions, it can be — especially handmade hand sanitizers that contain higher alcohol content. And in the age of COVID-19, hand sanitizer use in the workplace is more prevalent than ever. As...
Business Re-opening Consulting Now Available
Many states are now exploring partial re-opening, allowing several categories of businesses to open. Over time, more categories of businesses will also be encouraged to open. But re-opening doesn't mean a return to what we used to consider normal. The pandemic is...
Assessing Workplace Risk for COVID-19 Exposure
As COVID-19 infections continue to swell across the country, employers are becoming increasingly concerned with managing the risk of workplace infection. While not all workers are exposed to the same level of threat, understanding where your general industry and...
Resources for Providing COVID-19 Safety
COVID-19 has swept across the country at an alarming rate, sickening nearly half a million people in just a few months. The fallout has been swift, with thousands of non-essential businesses closing and those workers considered critical to the fight against the virus...
OSHA Issues New Temporary Guidance on Enforcement of Respiratory Protection Standard
Because of the current shortages and the dire need for access to N95 respiratory protection, OSHA has issued temporary guidance designed to get more masks into the hands of healthcare workers. Healthcare employers should provide employees caring for patients with N95...
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