The summer months bring plenty of opportunities for jobs. Swimming pool complexes, theme parks, golf courses, and retail stores are all looking for additional help with the increased flow of business that warm weather brings. Unfortunately, many summer jobs can also leave employees vulnerable to workplace accidents and injuries. According to the Bureau of Labor[…]

This June, take some time to join the National Safety Council (NSC) in observing National Safety Month. This annual observance addresses key workplace safety and health topics in order to reduce the hundreds of thousands of preventable occupational injuries and fatalities that occur each year. For this year’s National Safety Month, the NSC is focusing[…]

  As the days and nights get colder, employers will make sure to have comprehensive safety and health plans in place to mitigate known risk factors associated with cases of occupational cold exposure. While extreme weather patterns – like very high or low temperatures — both cause nonfatal and fatal injuries, the Centers for Disease[…]

Recently, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued a safety alert after six workers died while performing diving operations. Five of the deceased were power generation plant workers who sustained fatal injuries while working around pipes, drains, tunnels, and valves. Because commercial diving is a particularly hazardous line of work, OSHA provides numerous safety[…]

This October marks National Protect Your Hearing Month, an annual public health campaign spearheaded by numerous federal agencies in order to raise awareness about noise-induced hearing loss and to provide useful steps that people can take to protect their hearing. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 22 million workers face dangerous[…]