Workplace Safety Tips and Tricks
The control strategies for managing the risk inherent in vehicle operations are based on the usual basic health and safety management principles: Eliminate the hazard. Create a safe place. Create a safe person. The starting point is a risk assessment. Risk Assessment A risk assessment covering the vehicle operations in a workplace would Identify the various hazards, by establishing the …
Protecting your employees can be a challenging proposition. The modern workplace can be a loud and dangerous place that exposes your workers to hazards that are unique to your workplace. For this reason, it’s critically important that managers and employees alike understand whatthey can do to ensure each employee goes home safely after every shift. Below are 9 Workplace Safety …
Sanitary Conveniences Suitable and sufficient sanitary conveniences shall be provided or made available at readily accessible places. So far as is reasonably practicable, rooms containing sanitary conveniences shall be adequately ventilated and lit. So far as is reasonably practicable, sanitary conveniences and the rooms containing them shall be kept in a clean and orderly condition. Separate rooms containing sanitary conveniences …
Here’s one New Year’s resolution worth saving for January: what can you do to make your workplace safer? Improving health and safety at work is never a bad idea. And you don’t need to invest much to make it happen. Here are six simple things you should be doing. 1. Train your people Basic training can make all the difference …
Falling Objects Wear a hard hat if there is a risk of head injury from falling or thrown objects (for example, own scenery, lighting equipment, tools, or tail ends of the cable). Although some companies provide hard hats, workers are responsible for providing their own approved hard hat, if necessary. Hard Hat Requirements Keep your hard hat clean. Don’t use …