10 Essential Workplace Safety Tips for New Employees

10 Essential Workplace Safety Tips for New Employees

New employees infuse fresh energy into an organization. Ensuring their safety from the outset is paramount, protecting them and fostering a company-wide culture of safety. Key measures include comprehensive safety orientation, emphasizing the correct use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), promoting safe lifting techniques, and instilling a culture of hazard reporting. Additionally, new hires should be familiar with emergency procedures and the intricacies of workstation safety, chemical handling, electrical precautions, and overall health practices. Ultimately, consistent training, communication, and proactive hazard management are essential for a safe and thriving workplace. Introduction:

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10 Basic First Aid Training Tips & Procedures for Any Emergency

10 Basic First Aid Training Tips & Procedures for Any Emergency

Injuries are practically inevitable in emergency situations. There’s a chance you get hurt by whatever’s causing the emergency; for instance, you could get burned in a fire, or you could get struck by toppling debris during an earthquake. But injuries are also sustained during the panic that ensues in an emergency. In the rush to get away from danger, you could sprain your ankle or suffer an open wound.

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Why is OHS and Safety Training Important

Why is OHS and Safety Training Important

Working is often dangerous. Some types of work, naturally, are more dangerous than others – there is no comparison between the risks involved in working in a relatively safe office environment and being exposed to high risks in a nuclear power station or a factory in which explosives are manufactured. But no matter what type of work is being done, sooner or later, something goes wrong, and the workplace – a place where a person spends the largest part of his or her entire life – suddenly becomes a threat to health or endangers the safety of employees.

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Benefits of taking an online OSHA training course

Benefits of taking an online OSHA training course

Word related Safety and Health Act is a wellbeing and security standard. OSHA ensures about work environment wellbeing and take care about the security particulars by giving the instructional class, and administrations to the laborers by utilizing the different ventures.

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Permit-Required Confined Spaces – Do You Know What They Are?

Permit-Required Confined Spaces – Do You Know What They Are?

Confined spaces in the workplace are common, and they may even be more common than you think. For example, sewers, storage bins and tanks can all be confined spaces, but in many cases so are silos and open pits. Some confined spaces may not pose great harm, but others can be very dangerous to anyone entering them.

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Overcoming Limiting Mind-Sets to Improve Safety

Overcoming Limiting Mind-Sets to Improve Safety

Companies looking to improve workplace safety have a number of methods at their disposal. But to embed a sustainable safety culture, they must overcome the mind-sets that underlie unsafe behaviors.

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An Incident Reporting System

An Incident Reporting System

An Incident Reporting System - Incident reporting has proved to be a useful tool in preventing error in high-risk industries, such as aviation, nuclear and petro-chemical industries. If an aviation incident occurs it is reported, investigated and lessons are learnt. Reporting when things go wrong is essential, as it explores the underlying causes of patient safety incidents. Your practice should have a systematic approach where staff know what type of incidents to report, what information is required and how to learn from it.

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Defining a “Safe System of Work”

Defining a “Safe System of Work”

Providing a “safe system of work” is the essence of the general duties that employers have to their employees under workplace health and safety regulations. Despite this, consistent and appropriate definition of what constitutes a safe system of work is almost non-existent. Available definitions tend to confuse a safe system of work with management practices intended to bring about a safe system, or conflate the broad system suggested in general duties clauses with procedures or work methods that are focused on particular hazards or tasks. This article develops a definition of safe systems of work which recognises the broad scope of the concept and includes psychological health and return to work processes. This definition can be used by a range of stakeholders to better communicate the scope of occupational health and safety duties and more consistently assess whether a safe system has been provided both before and after incidents occur.

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South Africa’s Construction Industry Could Become Safer.

South Africa’s Construction Industry Could Become Safer.

South African Construction Industry - Construction is tough, sometimes dangerous work. Globally, the construction industry accounts for about 7% of employment. But it’s responsible for between 30% and 40% of all work-related fatalities. The figure is at its highest in developing countries. This is because contractor organisations in those countries tend to lack a safety culture. Health and management systems are also less robust there than in developed nations.

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Back Safety at Work

Back Safety at Work

Back Safety at Work - Chronic back pain affects eight out of ten people, and practicing back safety at work prevents issues from becoming worse. Planning ahead, getting help, and working "smart" prevent back injuries from occurring on the job. Workers' Compensation and health insurance claims add expenses to the company budget.

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