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Back-to-School Transportation – Ride in Safety Style
Another new school year is about to be in full swing, and with 55 million children and young adults across... More →
Back Safety
In this safety training tip edition, we're talking about back safety. Back pain affects 80% of us at some point... More →
Back Safety Toolkit
The following supplemental materials were created to support your back safety training regimen. First, there’s a simple checklist for auditing... More →
Preventing Back Injuries in the Workplace
Back injuries are a common problem in the workplace. When discussing ways to prevent back injuries, the key thing to... More →
Head, Neck, and Back Injuries — Prevention and Emergency Treatment
From typical lower backaches all the way to the sharp pain of an accident-induced case of whiplash; head, neck, and... More →
Water Safety Tips: Backyard Pool Edition
There’s been a spike in demand for backyard pools throughout the pandemic as families have stayed close to home for... More →
Water Safety Tips: Backyard Pool Edition
There’s been a spike in demand for backyard pools throughout the pandemic as families have stayed close to home for... More →
Sales Training: Getting Back to Basics
Sales training is not just for new hires and salespeople struggling to meet their numbers. The most successful sales managers... More →
Avoiding Falling Object Hazards
Welcome back to this week's safety training tip - today's topic is avoiding falling object hazards. Placing a box of... More →
Labor Shortages and Skills Gaps
Executive Summary Back in 2015, we were already noting in our blog posts that there was a widening “skills gap,”... More →
What I Wish I Knew When I Started in Safety
A few month back, Chief Safety Officer Jill James opened the ASSE Future Safety Leaders Conference. Like many of those... More →
Transforming Safety in the Workplace: Successful Strategies and Statistics
In 2020, 180,000 construction workers missed work due to injury, causing delays, setting back schedules, and starting litigation. Construction companies... More →
Lifting Safety
Lifting heavy items is one of the leading causes of injury in the workplace. According to the Bureau of Labor... More →
Transportation
Your industry is the backbone of progress. Without you, everything grinds to a halt. We understand the pace of your... More →
How to Break the Mental Health Stigma in the Workplace
These days, discussions about mental health, its challenges, and its importance, are more prevalent than ever. Yet, despite that, the... More →
Hospitality Training Videos
Front and back of the house, bartending, front desk, housekeeping, and valet are some of the hospitality training topics we... More →
Return-to-Work Solutions
Whether you’re thinking about bringing employees back, or you never left, HSI provides the training and solutions you need to... More →
Troubleshoot Your Training – Live!
What? No one liked your PowerPoint training session on OSHA’s new Beryllium rule? If you have a safety training challenge... More →
Building Materials Company Enhances Efficiencies by Developing Qualified Electric Worker Program
A small building materials company with 65 years of experience needed to improve efficiencies. One area they identified was electrical... More →
Relay Technician Training Program
Utility relay technicians are the backbone of a reliable utility. Unfortunately, finding and keeping relay techs is also one of... More →
How to Investigate a Workplace Accident: Beyond the Blame Game
Unfortunately, accident investigations can take the path of least resistance, with the goal being to complete it quickly and move... More →
Troubleshoot Your Training - Live! Top Training Challenges
What?! You lost your Excel sheet with a decade of training records and have an audit tomorrow? No one liked... More →
Hospitality Training Topics
The definition of "hospitality" is the "friendly and generous reception and entertainment of guests, visitors, or strangers." Create a superior... More →
10 Questions You Need to Ask Before Buying Online Training
Online training isn’t the right solution for every organization (as much as we’d like that to be the case) and... More →
Looking Ahead: Updated CPR & First Aid Guidelines
BACKGROUND Since the first CPR Standards and Guidelines were released in 1975, major updates have been provided about every five... More →
NERC Initial Operator Training
NERC Initial Operator Training for less experienced students. Many system operator candidates come from the power industry. However, there are... More →
Competency-Based Learning: Values Differences
Values Differences is one of the 38 Korn Ferry competencies that HSI maps our video-based learning to in order to... More →
Leadership Lessons from 2020
They say hindsight is 20/20, and looking back on the last year, we’ve learned a few leadership lessons. We... More →
What’s Your Chemical Inventory Score?
Chemical inventories are the backbone of a good safety data sheet (SDS) management program. Without an accurate chemical inventory, you... More →
Locked Doors
What’s the hazard here? If this door could speak, I think its story might go something like this... Back when... More →
7 Steps for Developing High-Potential Employees
High-performing employees are the backbone of any organization. The old saying is true: Roughly 80 percent of the growth of... More →
New Improved OSHA 10 & 30 Outreach Cards Coming Soon
Back in 2016, the Department of Labor’s (DOL) Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) upgraded official Outreach Training Program course... More →
2021 In Review
As we reach the end of 2021, let’s take a look back at the key events that impacted our industry... More →
9 CPR Training Errors
Back in the day, when I first started as a CPR training instructor, there was a great training video that... More →
Fireworks Safety Reminder
Whether you’re the parent with a packet of sparklers for the kids or a dedicated enthusiast who stocks up on... More →
Safety Blog Series: Part 2 | You’ve Got the Job. Now What?
Welcome back! So what’s next now that you have this safety position? In Part I we talked about the power... More →
How to Conduct the “Ideal” Safety Audit
A safety audit is like peeling back the roof of your facility and peering down at the maze of activity... More →
Training’s Role Returning to Work After Quarantine
Communities across the country are attempting to re-open and sending employees back to work. Our experience is unprecedented. As business... More →
Safety Blog Series: Part 3 | You’ve Got the Job. Now What?
Hey, you came back! Thanks for sticking with this. The first two posts of this series set an important, albeit... More →
3 Things Linemen Can Do To Avoid Musculoskeletal Disorders
It’s not uncommon for lineworkers to experience back and knee pain, especially later in life after they’ve been working for... More →
September Is National Preparedness Month - Are You Prepared?
September is traditionally a time to prepare: getting the kids back to school or maybe getting our gardens and houses... More →
Lockout Tagout Training Saves Lives
An employee works to clear a jam on a conveyor belt, only to have their hand crushed when the conveyor... More →
Lessons from a Life in Safety: #9
Be brave. Be Consistent. Be You. The safety field has been dominated by ex-military, white males, dating back to the... More →
Training Calendar
AVERT IDCs are available nationwide. Search below to find a class near you or wherever you’d like to travel. Click... More →
Safety First When It Comes to Fireworks
While the breathtaking, sky-filling displays will be left to the professionals, millions of Americans will celebrate the upcoming Independence Day... More →
Ladder Safety Tips
Each year in the U.S., falls from ladders result in more than 160,000 injuries and 300 deaths. Those numbers are... More →
4 Tips for Improving Ethics Training in the Workplace
The study of ethics is a field that existed long before the first corporation, assembly line, or training class. “Ethics”... More →
Pipe Threader Safety
Join HSI Chief Safety Officer Jill James as she visits environmental health and safety professionals in their workplaces to explore... More →
Active Violence Emergency Response Training Podcast
In this week's episode, series host Jill James speaks with Lindsay Gietzen and Darcy Leutzinger, the directors of AVERT, discussing... More →
Duty to Have Fall Protection
What’s the hazard? Use your laser focus and zoom in on the person working at the top. Do you notice... More →