February 2022 New Course Highlight
Ground Disturbance Awareness A ground disturbance can be defined as any activity that compacts or disturbs the ground within a project area. This term is often interchangeable with “excavation” as the job activity is below grade and displaces existing dirt, rocks or clay. Along with many other jobs on a worksite, there are several hazards […]
Simplify Compliance in 5 Easy Steps
Staying compliant with health and safety regulations is a necessity for any business, not just because of the risk of receiving costly fines, but also to avoid potentially serious health and safety hazards. However, compliance doesn’t need to be complicated. Here are five easy steps to follow to make sure you are setting your safety […]
Mobile Apps: Expanding Safety Beyond the Office Walls
It should come as no surprise that workplace safety has made its way into the mobile app space. After all, there is an app for quite literally anything you may want — from having groceries delivered to managing your bank account to arranging dry cleaning services. Additionally, in 2021, roughly 83% of all American adults […]
The Importance Of Native Language Safety Training
Over the last five years, Hispanic and Latino workers have seen the highest increasing rate of workplace fatalities of any ethic group, rising from 16% of all workplace fatalities in 2016 to more than 22% of all such deaths in 2020. Similar trends can be seen in other populations with high numbers of limited English […]
6 Reasons to Ditch Your EHS Management Spreadsheet
EHS management is typically a more “old-school” role and safety managers in a wide variety of industries regularly rely on spreadsheets to track different aspects of their company’s safety program. Spreadsheets are often used to record injuries and illnesses, maintain employee training records, document job steps and so much more. But just because safety management […]
Newly Released Data Shows Improving Statistics in Fatal Occupational Injuries Through 2020
On December 16, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released their final report summarizing the 2020 National Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries. For the first time in two years, the number of fatal work injuries is down, from 3.5 per 100,000 full-time equivalent employees in 2019 to 3.4 fatalities per 100,000 in 2020. Some of […]
November 2021 New Course Highlights
UNV-33.2 Discrimination in the Workplace for Educational Facilities Understanding discrimination and harassment is crucial when it comes to maintaining a safe recruitment process, work environment and healthy employee relationships. Discrimination can be defined as the practice of unfairly treating a person or group of people differently from others. U.S. federal law prohibits discrimination at any institution receiving federal funds. Nevertheless, there […]
November New Course Launches, Course Rebuilds, and Course Translations
New and Rebuilt Course Titles: UNV-33.2 Discrimination in the Workplace for Educational Facilities SWA-1.2 Stop Work Authority (Rebuild) OGS-10.2 Excavation and Trenching for Upstream Oil and Gas Operations (Rebuild) New Microlearning Titles: SNP-372.2 Animal Control: Dogs SNP-374.2 Animal Control: Insects and Arachnids SNP-373.2 Animal Control: Mammals SNP-375.2 Animal Control: Snakes SNP-378.2can Bear and Wilderness Safety […]
Uplevel Your Higher Education Program with the Latest Online Training Technology
Perhaps unsurprisingly, facilities of higher education are often at the forefront of technological advancement when it comes to learning. Think of such commonplace classroom items as Scantron sheets, invented in 1972, or even the blackboard, introduced by a Scottish teacher in 1801. In fact, educational facilities even adopted early forms of e-learning, with the New […]
SafetySkills Empower: A Simplified Solution for Complete EHS Management
The environmental health and safety (EHS) field has evolved to be about more than just administering training and responding to incidents. In truth, EHS management also requires identifying potential issues and creating solutions for the inevitable workplace incident. Many people within the safety industry are likely aware of existing EHS management software options — and […]
