The Importance of Effective and Understandable Training At The Workplace
By: Diego Tolosa, CHST
My interest in bilingual safety training started the day I entered a construction site in which a number of Spanish-speaking employees were working in a trench excavated from green soil. As a health and safety professional, my attention was immediately drawn to [...]
By: John Quatermas – EHS Consultant
Working as a Health & Safety Officer (HSO) at a hazardous waste site presents many challenges. It is our job to insure that workers on the site perform their activities in a manner that protects them and the public from injury or illness. Each hazardous waste site has [...]
The Importance of Following OSHA’s Hazard Communication Standard 29 CFR 1910.1200
By: Diego Tolosa, CHST
In their attempts to increase workplace efficiency, employers and employees alike sometimes forget about a few basic safety requirements. Most commonly overlooked is OSHA’s Hazardous Communication (HAZCOM) standard which requires employers to provide employees with information “concerning chemical hazards and the [...]
Get an EHS Design Expert at the Table!
By: Paula Kaufmann – CIH
I recently read an article titled “Implementing Safety during Design: a Case Study” in the March 2009 edition of AIHA publication, The Synergist. The authors discuss how incorporating safety systems or measures in the design phase of a construction project can [...]