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...
OSHA Guidance on Preparing for COVID-19
As the number of active cases of the Coronavirus rise, business owners and management are thinking about how to protect their workers and keep operations running as normal. Many companies have encouraged employees to work from home, but other businesses don't have the...
How to Measure Safety: You Can’t Evaluate What You Don’t Measure
In order to know if your safety program is working, you've got to measure it. In this post, we’re going to take a look at how to measure safety and the effectiveness of your safety programs and how to communicate losses and achievements to your workers. How Do You...
Carbon Monoxide Safety: How to Avoid The Silent Killer At Work
When most of us talk about carbon monoxide poisoning we're more familiar with risks in the context of the home. Images are rife of the "silent killer" afflicting unfortunate families who've had their whole house furnace or gas stove malfunction or perhaps some who's...
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