As temperatures rise, heat stress becomes a critical concern for those in outdoor environments or hot indoor settings. Understanding the hazards, potential injuries, and effective controls can help prevent serious health issues. This blog aims to provide comprehensive information based on guidelines from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).

Establishments with 100 or more employees in designated high-hazard industries (listed in Appendix B to Subpart E of 29 CFR Part 1904) must electronically submit to OSHA detailed information about each recordable injury and illness entered on their previous calendar year’s OSHA Form 300 Log and Form 301 Incident Report. Read for more info.

If you're required to keep recordable injury and illness records, you must also complete and post your OSHA Form 300A Summary of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses. This blog will tell you everything you need to know about the OSHA Form 300A Summary.

Collecting data on workplace injuries and illnesses is essential to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) mission to improve workplace safety and health. In October 2022, OSHA announced changes to the OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA). This safety blog will help you understand what steps you need to take to report your Form 300A Summary log of 2023 injury and illness data to OSHA using Login.gov.

All employers covered by the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSH Act) are covered by Part 1904 Recording and Reporting Occupational Injuries and Illnesses. However, there are some partial exemptions for keeping OSHA injury and illness records that may apply to your workplace, including size and particular low-hazard industries. See if your facility applies for the partial exemptions.

The Globally Harmonized System (GHS) and OSHA’s Hazard Communication Standard (HCS) or also known as Haz Com, aligned in 2009. But what changed? Is anyone seeing the results of the merging of these two standards? Read the blog to discover how classifying hazards and the labels and safety data sheets (SDS) were altered.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), in 2020, 24% of workers were 55 or older. In addition, fatal injuries among workers who are 55 and older increased by 8% from 2018 to 2019. The 2,005 deaths that occurred in 2019 signify the most significant number ever recorded for this age group. So if we know that nearly a quarter of our workforce is over 55 years old and they’re more likely to get hurt, what controls can we implement to keep them safe?

OSHA’s LOTO standard has three main elements to create an energy control program. This blog will discuss the Control of Hazardous Energy Standard’s Purpose, as well as the three main elements, focusing on Energy Control Procedures.

Be prepared with the records you need to ace an OSHA Inspection.

The Bloodborne Pathogen Standard requires employers to ensure they have an Exposure Control Plan and are training employees that have “occupational exposure” to Bloodborne Pathogens.

Employers should be aware of their responsibilities under OSHA.

This short blog will go over the basics of Hot Work Permits and what a Wheatstone Bridge Circuit is.