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Personal Protective Equipment: Essential for Workers' Safety
Personal protective equipment is a critical component of workplace safety. This guide explains how to select, use, and maintain PPE to protect employees from common hazards, helping employers reduce injuries and ensure compliance with safety standards.
Right-to-Know: Hazard Communication Standard
Clear chemical hazard communication is essential for protecting workers. This article explains how labels, GHS pictograms, and safety data sheets work together to help employers meet OSHA requirements and ensure employees can identify, understand, and safely handle hazardous chemicals.
Safe + Sound Week
Safe + Sound Week engages 5,300+ businesses to highlight workplace safety successes and implement core programs. Organizations participate in August challenges that reduce injuries through systematic hazard controls and employee involvement.
Five Ways to Be Safe + Sound At Work
Five OSHA Safe + Sound challenges guide workplaces to strengthen safety programs via management leadership, hazard inspections, and employee participation. Businesses complete activities like Take 3 in 30 to reduce injuries and display virtual challenge coins.
Trench-Related Fatalities Prompt Enhanced Enforcement
With trench-related fatalities rising, OSHA is increasing inspections and enforcement to protect workers. This guide covers essential trenching safety measures, protective systems, and training strategies employers can implement to prevent collapses and injuries, ensuring compliance and keeping employees safe in excavation operations.
Are you aware of OSHA’s top cited violations?
OSHA publishes an annual list of the most frequently cited workplace safety violations based on inspection data. This overview highlights common problem areas such as fall protection, hazard communication, and equipment safety, and explains how employers can reduce violations through training and prevention.