Security Threat Awareness
While most workplaces are generally safe environments, employees should be aware of potential security threats and prevention tactics.
Read moreBeryllium Safety
Beryllium is identified as a listed toxic substance and employers are required to protect workers from beryllium exposure in a number of ways. Learn more!
SafetySkills Partners with the University of South Florida and American Safety Council to Offer OSHA-Authorized Training
Beginning in May, clients of SafetySkills’ Learning Management System (LMS) will have the option of choosing to add OSHA-authorized…
Read moreDon’t Flash at Work: Why Adobe Flash is Ending
Adobe Flash, a popular web application, is on the verge of extinction. Major companies, such as Google and Apple, no longer support it, and now SafetySkills is joining them. Don’t worry – we’ll cover what it is, what it means, and what you can expect.
Read moreWhat OSHA-Authorized Training Is and What it Isn’t
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is part of the United States Department of Labor. OSHA acts as the national public health agency dedicated to assuring safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women. The functions of OSHA include setting and enforcing work-related exposure standards and providing training, outreach, assistance, and education.
Read moreHAZWOPER General Site Worker 8-Hour Refresher
SafetySkills is happy to announce we launched our HAZWOPER General Site Worker 8-Hour Refresher. This series is broken down into 8 modules that can be taken all at once or spread out of multiple sessions.
Read moreWhat’s Best: eLearning or Conventional Training Approaches?
A big question that we are most often asked to answer: Is online safety training as effective as instructor-led safety training? After wrestling with this question for the past 10 years or more, we believe that neither instructor-led training or asynchronous elearning is inherently better than the other.
Read moreWhat is HAZWOPER Training
The Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response Standard, or HAZWOPER, was enacted by OSHA in 1990. It is designed to protect workers involved in the initial stages of a chemical release emergency, the subsequent clean-up of a site once the emergency has been stabilized, and the clean-up of chemical contamination from the country’s past industrial legacy.
Read moreMaking an Impact with the Army Corps of Engineers
Over time, a wide variety of unexploded ordnance (UXO) from multiple countries and eras have collected on Fort Sill’s impact ranges.
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