Businesses have been greatly impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, and the manufacturing industry is no exception. It can be difficult to manage a manufacturing plant during a national and global pandemic, especially if your employees are scared with the current state of the world. What can your plant do to stay open during the pandemic?

Working around heavy machinery is hard and dangerous work. Eliminating all risk in an industrial setting with large pieces of equipment performing often complicated work is impossible. However, there are steps that you can take as a business leader to ensure the lowest probability of accidents possible. Incidents like employee injuries slow down the pace of work, hurt the bottom line of companies, and sap employee morale.

A near-miss can feel a little hard to pin down. When it comes documenting and reporting one, how exactly does one go about recording something that didn’t happen?

Finding efficient and effective ways to stay compliant with Environmental, Health and Safety
(EHS) compliance regulations can feel like a full-time job in itself, as any EHS coordinator or
manager already knows. Keeping up with changing rules, regulations, and reporting procedures necessary to keep your employees safe and stay compliant is daunting to say the least. That’s why it’s so important to prioritize your EHS Compliance Initiatives.

Let’s face it; most business owners didn’t create their company or hire their first employee with EHS Compliance on their mind. In fact, many probably didn’t know what EHS Compliance was, until someone or something else abruptly brought it to their attention! But regardless of one’s intentions, EHS Compliance is very important not only to business owners and managers, but their employees, stakeholders, and regulatory bodies too.

The focus of this article will mainly be leading indicators as KPI's. A lot of companies track lagging indicators, which are still good, but the leading indicators will actually help you to prevent the expenditure of money rather than just mitigating it.

Electrical equipment is a common sight in residential as well as commercials spaces. People in these spaces who work either directly or indirectly with electricity are always exposed to electrical hazards. A majority of the electrical hazards can be avoided with a proper understanding of the electrical equipment and some simple precautions on their usage. Described below are some of the most common electrical risks. By following few precautions, electrical hazards can be prevented at residential as well as commercial premises.

When you think of your company’s EHS program does a single name, title, or department come to mind? If so, it may be time to reevaluate how your organization handles EHS!

Confining EHS to one person, or office, in your organization does not allow you to have a flourishing safety culture and may actually be hurting your company.