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EHS Programs
4 Major Food Safety Hazards Restaurant Owners Need to Avoid
Running a restaurant is no easy task. In addition to ensuring that the food tastes great and looks appetizing, you also have to manage food safety hazards - and one...
By: Violetta Njunina | Head of Sales
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Safety Signs
Sign Blindness Is Real - Here's What You Can Do About It
Sign, sign - everywhere a sign.Signage is used on nearly every worksite as a way of capturing attention and alerting people to something important. But have you ever...
By: Daniel Clark | Safety and Quality Management System Specialist
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Hazards
Are Workplace Risks Hiding in Plain Sight?
When it comes to your workplace, what you don’t know could hurt you. This is a complex network of various stakeholders, and you need complete visibility into all...
By: Safeopedia Staff
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HAZMAT
How to Stay Safe from Welding Fumes and Gases
Open flames, sparks, and high heat may be some of the most visible hazards in the welding process, but welding also comes with respiratory hazards that need to be taken...
By: Karoly Ban Matei | HR and Safety Manager
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HAZMAT
6 Common Workplace Chemicals (And How to Handle Them Safely)
Nearly every workplace stocks and makes use of chemicals, from the cleaning solutions kept under the washroom sink to the products used in industrial processes.What...
By: Daniel Clark | Safety and Quality Management System Specialist
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EHS Programs
5 Easily Overlooked Safety Risks Every Workplace Should Address
It's an unfortunate truth that organizations and industries overlook safety risks. Despite our best efforts, some hazards remain unidentified and uncontrolled.For...
By: Karoly Ban Matei | HR and Safety Manager
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Leadership
Preventing Serious Injuries and Fatalities on Joint-Employer Jobsites
This article is based on the Serious Injury/Fatality Prevention: Joint-Employer Settings webinar. Register now to learn more!Joint-employer arrangements aren't new...
By: Bennett Cuthbert | Writer
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EHS Programs
How to Safely Dispose of Medical Waste
When we talk about workplace safety, a lot of the discussion focuses on construction, manufacturing, and natural resource extraction workers and the hazards they face on...
By: Karoly Ban Matei | HR and Safety Manager
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Wearables
How Wearables Can Change Behavior and Reduce Ergonomic Injuries
For the human body to be healthy, it needs to move. That's one of the benefits of working as a manual materials handler - movement is mandatory.The issue, however,...
By: Toni-Louise Gianatti | Content Manager
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Safety Equipment
The 5 Expenses You'll Avoid by Investing in Machine Safety
Cost avoidance is defined by any action taken in the present that prevents incurring greater costs in the future. For example, routinely investing in machine safety to...
By: Shawn Mantel
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Employee Health
How to Deal with Workplace Hazards that Have Latent Effects
Quick, think of a hazard!If you’re like me, you imagined something dramatic – an open pit, a lightning bolt, an exploding gas tank. Maybe you just pictured...
By: Daniel Clark | Safety and Quality Management System Specialist
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Safety Equipment
Choosing the Right Tools for Working in Explosive Work Environments
One of the most important safety concerns to solve for offshore platforms, refineries, mines, and other industries are explosion risks. These can be caused by gas, dust...
By: Hector Maggi | Managing Director
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