Silver Lining Safety - Safety Bytes

Did you hear about the employee who fell through the skylight? Listen to this podcast to make sure your employees are safe on the roof.

The implementation of a successful safety program is multi-faceted. In this podcast I continue to review the elements of a successful safety program.

A judge in California has ruled that your OSHA 300A is not confidential and should be released to the public. What does this mean for you?

If you’re an employee, has your employer asked you to perform an unsafe job and you want to know if you can refuse?  If you’re an employer, has an employee refused to complete a job task because he or she feels it’s unsafe? This podcast will cover both of these concerns.

I’ve talked about consensus standards before, but I’ve not thoroughly discussed how they’re used to create safer workplaces or the three ways OSHA uses them.

Many employers adopt written procedures to comply with OSHA requirements or address safety issues in the workplace. What happens when you don’t follow your own procedures? This podcast will answer that question.

OSHA recently announced it issued the first COVID-19 related citation. In this podcast, I’ll discuss OSHA’s COVID-19 enforcement efforts, the first citation, and the impact on employers.

After May 25, OSHA will require that employers determine if COVID-19 cases in the workplace are OSHA recordable. 

While we’d all like our family and friends to be free of the impact of COVID-19 and the challenges it’s created, there’s no EASY button. Just like there’s no EASY button for workplace safety. This podcast will be the first of several that shows what it takes to have a great safety program.

This podcast may cause you to look at workplace safety in a different light. Paul O’Neill, former Treasury secretary, recently passed away. It reminded me of how he made me think differently about safety and how it changed workplace safety for the better.