Resources and Other Results:
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 →
Fire Safety Toolkit
Fire Safety ChecklistUsed for safety auditing purposes, this checklist covers administrative best practices related to fire prevention and planning, important... More →
Extension Cord Safety
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Guardrail Systems
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Welding Lead Inspection
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Tackling OSHA’s Top 10 Citations: 1910.305 Electrical Wiring Methods & 1910.303 General Requirements
The following is an excerpt from Tackle OSHA’s Top 10. Hosted by Chief Safety Officer Jill James, you can listen... More →
Safety Job Responsibilities
The 30,000-foot view of what is expected of an employer by way of workplace safety compliance. Determine workplace hazards and... More →
Why we’re not the cheapest...
The answer is really simple—we have the best safety training content in the online safety training game. Please, demo our... More →
Safety Training: By the Numbers
Here’s a fun exercise for any safety leader prompted by data from the world of occupational safety and health. Use... More →
Unified EHS Systems: Streamlining Compliance and Safety
Within Environment, Health, and Safety (EHS), many organizations face the daunting challenge of managing fragmented systems and data silos. This... More →
Behavior Based Safety (BBS Program)
Behavior-based safety, also known as BBS... ...is a broad term used to describe everything from basic employee behavior audits and... More →
Unsafe Walking-Working Surface
What’s the hazard here? Perhaps the true hazard here is a serious lack of resources, resulting in this haphazard, makeshift... More →
False Fall Protection
What’s the hazard here? Fall hazard. When employees are exposed to falls of greater than 4-feet in general industry settings... More →
15 Tips for Saving Money on Workers’ Compensation
#1. Start Writing Your Safety Program If you don’t have a safety program, or have thought about starting one but... 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 →
How to Prepare for a Surprise OSHA Inspection
An OSHA inspection can happen at any time. You won’t have advance warning that an inspector is going to show... More →
Safety Job Research Project: Results
A year ago, we launched a research effort to learn more about the safety professional community: who they are, how... More →
Modernizing EHS Beyond Compliance: Embracing a Holistic Approach
Struggling to keep up with Environmental, Health, & Safety (EHS) regulations and feeling overwhelmed by the risks and complexities of... More →
Emergency Response
What’s the hazard here? Where do we start, right? Let’s focus on the exit door. The sign on the door... More →
Lessons from a Life in Safety: #1
Trusted Advising. Not Punitive Policing. My first job out of graduate school was as an OSHA Investigator. I had an... More →
How OSHA Inspectors Think
Here are a few things that I like to call ‘low-hanging fruit’ for OSHA inspectors—circumstances that are common, obvious, and... More →
10 Ways To Use Safety Data Sheets
As a safety professional, Safety Data Sheets (SDSs) have always been a close, professional friend. They are scientific, clear, help... More →
What Is Micro-Learning?
I’ve been in the learning space for so long that I find these conversations about “microlearning” humorous. Because, in the... More →
Flammable Liquid Storage
Join HSI Chief Safety Officer Jill James as she visits environmental health and safety professionals in their workplaces to explore... More →
A Pathway to Maturity: Integrating EHS Systems for Enhanced Efficiency and Safety
As a safety professional or operations manager, you're all too familiar with the endless administrative tasks of traditional EHS management... More →
Tackling OSHA’s Top 10 Citations: 1926.501 - Fall Protection
The following is an excerpt from Tackle OSHA’s Top 10. Hosted by Chief Safety Officer Jill James, you can listen... More →
Reducing the Burden of EHS Administration with Innovative Technology
Are you tired of the time-consuming and tedious tasks involved in Environmental, Health, & Safety (EHS) administration? As a safety... More →
Understanding Safety Leadership for CEOs & Management Teams
"I’ve heard that ‘safety starts at the top’, right? Well, I’m at the top—can you help me understand what that... More →
Tackling OSHA’s Top 10 Citations: 1926.451 - Scaffolding
The following is an excerpt from Tackle OSHA’s Top 10. Hosted by Chief Safety Officer Jill James, you can listen... More →
What OSHA’s 2022 Top 10 List Says About Workplace Safety in the United States
Each year OSHA publishes a top 10 list of the most frequently cited standards found during inspections conducted by federal... More →
Top Training Challenges: How do I get employees to buy-in to our safety program?
The following is an excerpt from our on demand webcast, Troubleshoot Your Training—Live!, hosted by Chief Safety Officer Jill James... More →
Your Safety Program Isn’t Special (Here’s Why)
For many organizations, the safety training program is sacred: old, tested, believed-in. Considered a reflection of leadership or part of... More →
Why Employees Love Online Safety Training in 3 Quotes
Last year, workers completed a record-breaking 1.7 million online safety courses with HSI. The average course rating across all of... More →
Ready for an OSHA Safety Data Sheet Audit?
Maintaining an accurate, up to date safety data sheet collection is the first step in avoiding OSHA’s 2nd most-frequently cited... More →
Packaging Corporation of America
About Our Customer Packaging Corporation of America makes paper and packaging products. One of the best known brands and largest... More →
Ladder Safety
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The ROI of Online Safety Training
Let’s start with the bottom line: Online training is less expensive than traditional live trainingHeightened accountabilityReduction in time lost to... More →
Q & A: Do You Need a Safety Data Sheet (SDS) for That?
Question: Do chain retailers, such as grocers or automotive stores, need to have SDS’s for merchandise that they sell? And... More →
7-Step Plan to Increase Safety Training Engagement
When 75% of safety professionals identify “employee indifference” as the top barrier to excellence safety training, it’s a cry for... More →
Why Tech Businesses Need to Care About Worker Safety
You know what? You’re right. The risk of occupational injuries and illnesses is lower in the tech industry, statistically speaking... More →
What Makes Occupational Safety a Good Business Investment?
From a business perspective, safety programs do not actually generate sales or income and therefore are a financial burden or... More →
Elementary and Secondary Schools
K-12 schools need training solutions to help teachers, staff, and administrators stay safe, and provide the right learning environment for... More →
HSI Launches EHS Essentials, EHS Software Developed to be Quick and Easy to Adopt
HSI EHS Essentials is an out-of-the-box solution designed to help organizations set up and manage their incidents, audits, inspections, JSAs... More →
Mobility for EHS Professionals
Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) professionals work in dynamic environments. One day they are in a factory recording chemical inventories... More →
EHS Essentials — An Out-of-The-box Solution to Safety Management
Are you still using manual processes, paper forms and digital spreadsheets to manage your safety program? Are you simply tracking... More →
Warehousing
Safe keeping is your world. Organizations across the globe trust you with their precious commodities for hours, weeks and months... More →
Transportation
Your industry is the backbone of progress. Without you, everything grinds to a halt. We understand the pace of your... More →
Safety 101: When Safety Needs Explaining
Barrett: Welcome to today's EHS Daily Advisor webcast, Safety 101: When Safety Needs Explaining. It does need explaining. People tell... More →
Safety FM Podcast: Episode 28 - Jill James
Our very own Jill James was a special guest recently on, the Safety FM Podcast, where they talk about safety... 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 →