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Are You Shipping Hazardous Materials? Common and Surprising Hazardous Materials Many Companies Ship but May Not Realize
We do a lot of hazardous materials transportation training where we teach persons from industry how to properly package, label and ship hazardous materials by ground, air and by sea. Although each method is overseen in the U.S. by the Department of Transportation...
OSHA Adds Requirement for PPE to Properly Fit Construction Industry Workers – Aligning With Same Requirement for General Industry
OSHA has updated its Construction Industry PPE standard at 29 CFR 1926.95 to require that PPE properly fit workers. This aligns with similar requirements in the General Industry Standard at 29 CFR 1910.132(d)(1)(iii) that requires employers to select PPE that...
EPA to Review and Potentially Reconsider Recently Created Regulations
Other Agencies May Follow Suit EPA’s new Administrator Lee Zeldin says the agency is going to focus on a new initiative to help return EPA to its core mission of conservation rather than “environmentalist radicalism” and regulation. Called “Powering the Great...
Welding Fumes
When you see the visible smoke coming from the welding process, whether it’s from welding, oxy fuel cutting, plasma cutting or brazing, that smoke is a welding fume. Welding fumes contain very fine particles of metal and gas by-products that can negatively affect your...
EPCRA Tier II: Does the March 1 Deadline Apply to Your Facility?
The Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act (EPCRA) requires facilities to report emergency and hazardous chemical information each year to their state and local emergency response officials and local fire departments. This is a federal requirement, but...
State, Regional and National Safety and Environmental Conferences for 2025
We exhibit and speak at many different safety and environmental conferences throughout the region. What's the schedule look like for 2025? Here is a list of some upcoming state, regional and national safety and environmental conferences that you may want to add to...
Which Annual Safety Training Requirements Should You Add to Your Calendar?
Annual safety training is a best management practice and is most often required when conditions in the workplace change. However, the OSHA standards don’t specifically require annual safety training for all of its topic areas, just a handful of them. Employee Access...
2025 EPA and OSHA Compliance Deadlines
It’s a new reporting year and time to plan for reporting and compliance deadlines from 2024's activities and for the new year. Mark your calendars with these environmental and safety reporting deadlines and other to-do tasks for 2025: EPA/Environmental March 1...
Back to Work Safety
After being off for the holidays or any time of vacation, sometimes it’s hard to get back into the groove of working. This is a time where it’s easy to not be as mindful about safety as we usually are. Workplace accidents tend to be higher after people come back from...
Be Safe When Ringing in the New Year
Regardless of whether you’re going out, or staying in for New Years celebrations, safety should always be top of mind. New Year’s Eve is actually one of the more dangerous holidays for car accidents. Here are a few tips to share about being safe when ringing in the...
Holiday Safety
This season of celebrating can be a wonderful time of the year, but it can also be a time for accidents. • Keep Real Trees Watered: The combination of shorts in electrical lights and a tinder-dry tree can be deadly. Keep your tree well-watered. Water levels should...
Seasonal Distractions
The holidays are a busy time for most of us and with that comes a lot of distraction, stress, fatigue and loss of focus. These are all things that can negatively affect our safety. Holiday Distractions: It’s important to be aware that these conditions may be occurring...
Thanksgiving Safety Tips to Share With Your Employees, Family and Friends
As a safety consultant, we make sure that our teams know about safety in all aspects of their life, not just the OSHA kind at work. Safety at home is just as important as safety at work. Below are some tips for Thanksgiving Safety, including a link to download a...
Compressed Air Safety
Compressed air is used in a multitude of applications in industry — pneumatic tools and equipment, pumps, valves, tires, robotic arms, conveyors, packaging machines, some welding operations, metal cutting, surface preparation, breathing air, natural gas extraction,...
Supreme Court’s Overruling of Chevron Deference Will Change How Regulations are Written and Interpreted
On June 28, in the Supreme Court case Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, a doctrine established in 1984 called the “Chevron deference” was overturned and will no longer be used when it comes to courts interpreting the meanings of regulations when there are...
Summer Safety
We talk about the holiday season being a big time of distraction when one is focused on a bunch of other things where safety may not always be top of mind. However, the summer can be a big distraction too. There’s a lot of things that we do in our non-work lives...
Severe Weather — Tornadoes
Tornadoes are violent storms that don’t only strike in the traditional “Tornado Alley” region of the U.S. The southeastern part of the U.S. is starting to experience many more tornadoes over the past few years. Tornadoes can strike anywhere, including places like...
OSHA Updates Walk Around Rule for Inspections
A new final rule issued by OSHA gives employees the opportunity to designate an employee representative to accompany an inspector during OSHA inspections. The original rule, at 29 CFR 1903.8(c), allowed for employers to have a representative to accompany an inspector,...
Who Needs DOT Hazmat Training?
Often we get the question, "Who needs DOT hazmat training?" Not only are there nuances between the various agencies of DOT and the international transportation organizations DOT defers to, but often in companies there could be a number of people involved in the...
OHSAS 18001 and ISO 45001: What’s the Difference?
Need assistance with ISO 45001? iSi can help! On November 27, 2017, a final version of the new International Standards Organization (ISO) 45001 standard was published, creating an official ISO standard for occupational health and safety programs. In the early 2000s...
ISNetworld: The Top 10 Items You Need for Compliance
Contractor/vendor prequalification is becoming more and more the norm. ISNetworld is an online contractor safety prequalification program and just one among a crop of other programs like it, including Avetta, PEC Safety, Browz, Veriforce, ComplyWorks, First Verify and...