Items Tagged with 'Emergency preparedness'

How can I protect employees from scalding or freezing temperatures while they’re operating a safety shower or eyewash station?

Here’s what you need to know to build an effective workplace emergency readiness plan.

Washington — The Chemical Safety Board is urging chemical facilities to prepare for a season of “potentially more frequent and more powerful hurricanes and other extreme weather events.”

Lowell, MA — Keeping workers safe during a disaster – natural or human-caused – is the goal of a new online course from a NIOSH Total Worker Health Center of Excellence.

Dallas — A new video from OSHA provides tips on keeping workers safe before, during and after extreme weather events.

Washington — Comments on proposed updates to OSHA’s emergency response standard are now due July 22.

For many of us, our pets are members of the family. That means they need to be part of our family’s emergency preparedness plan for hurricanes, tornadoes, floods and any other type of disaster that can occur where we live.

Washington — OSHA has extended until June 21 the comment period on proposed updates to its emergency response standard.

State College, PA — This year’s tornado season is predicted to be more active than usual, so experts are urging employers and workers to be prepared – this spring and beyond.

Washington — OSHA is seeking to “address the full range of hazards currently facing emergency responders” via a recently released proposed rule.