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Grace Thompson is a writer at OSHE Blog covering workplace safety, child safety, and emergency preparedness. She writes practical, easy-to-follow safety guides.
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Most flash flood advice is written for someone standing in their kitchen deciding whether to leave the house. It doesn't say much about a site with forty people spread across three contractors, a…
Nine of the ten reasons on this list are decisions someone made before the worker ever picked the item up. Sizing, selection, storage location, attenuation rating, shift length, who walks the floor…
The most effective thing you can do to avoid injury at a sewing machine is fit the needle guard that came in the box with it. Almost nobody does. Nearly every popular guide on this topic opens…
Childproofing is the deliberate redesign of a home so that the hazards a small child cannot understand are put beyond their reach, and so the ones that remain cannot injure them badly. That is the…
You identify unsafe behavior in two steps, and almost every guide on this subject only does the first. Step one is seeing the act: the shortcut, the missing glove, the guard swung open. Step two is…
A hazard sign is a signboard that warns you a risk is present at that spot — a yellow triangle with a black pictogram and a black border, under BS EN ISO 7010 and the UK's Safety Signs and Signals…
