Category: Weekly Safety Meeting

Weekly Safety Meeting – Confined Space Rescue Plans

Weekly Safety Meeting – Confined Space Rescue Plans

Confined spaces are areas that contain or have the potential to contain a hazardous atmosphere, have limited means of entry and exit, and although they are large enough for a worker to fit, they are not designed for continuous occupancy. Confined spaces require permits to enter due to their inherent...

Weekly Safety Meeting – Preventing Amputations

Weekly Safety Meeting – Preventing Amputations

Amputations are some of the most serious workplace injuries and have long-lasting consequences impacting quality of life. Amputations can be caused by a variety of activities and equipment and occur most often when workers operate unguarded or inadequately safeguarded machinery. Dangerous Machinery Machinery that poses amputation risks includes mechanical power...

Weekly Safety Meeting – Motor Vehicle Safety

Weekly Safety Meeting – Motor Vehicle Safety

Every Belt – Every Ride In 2004, a campaign called “Every Belt – Every Ride” was launched by OSHA in conjunction with the DOT’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (the NHTSA). The main object of the campaign was to encourage federal workers to wear seatbelts every time they ride in...

Weekly Safety Meeting – Root Cause Analysis (RCA)

Weekly Safety Meeting – Root Cause Analysis (RCA)

OHSA and the EPA encourage employers to conduct a root cause analysis when an incident or near miss occurs to investigate the reason why it happened, and to prevent a similar occurrence from happening again. A root cause analysis allows an employer to discover the underlying and systemic causes of...

Weekly Safety Meeting – Whistleblower Protection

Weekly Safety Meeting – Whistleblower Protection

A “whistleblower” is a person who informs about illegal, unsafe, or unhealthy activities that another person, group, company, or organization is doing. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), has a Whistleblower Protection Program that enforces the provisions of more than 20 laws protecting employees from retaliation for reporting workplace...

Weekly Safety Meeting – Slips, Trips, and Falls

Weekly Safety Meeting – Slips, Trips, and Falls

Although we’ve seen it in the cartoons and in the movies a million times, not many people actually slip on banana peels. But while the results may produce a few chuckles in the theater, falls are nothing to laugh at. In fact, some estimates put the number of disabling injuries...