by Sherry Chamblee | Jun 13, 2025 | Health, Safety
Each year, many businesses across the country submit their injury and illness data to OSHA’s Injury Tracking Application (ITA) portal. While the submission process itself may seem straightforward, simply entering the data from your OSHA 300A summary, it’s...
by Dana Chang | May 23, 2025 | Health, Safety
Heat stress includes a series of conditions where the body is under stress from overheating. Heat-related illnesses include heat cramps, heat exhaustion, heat rash, or heat stroke, each with its own symptoms and treatments. Symptoms can range from profuse sweating to...
by Dana Chang | May 16, 2025 | Health, Safety
Mental Health Awareness Month was first celebrated in 1949. It was commemorated by the Mental Health America organization, which was then known as the National Committee for Mental Hygiene and then later as the National Mental Health Association before it got its...
by Dana Chang | May 2, 2025 | Health, Safety
Accountability means being held answerable for accomplishing a goal or assignment. Unfortunately, the word “accountability” often connotes punishment or negative consequences. Certainly, management should not tolerate poor performance and should act when...
by Dana Chang | Apr 25, 2025 | Environmental, Health, Safety
HOW EARTH DAY BEGAN On June 22, 1969, the Cuyahoga River on the southern shores of Lake Erie caught on fire as chemicals, oil, and other industrial materials that had oozed into the river somehow ignited. Just a few months before, on January 28, 1969, an oil rig...
by Dana Chang | Apr 18, 2025 | Health, Safety
Static electricity is sometimes a little more than a nuisance that causes clothing to unattractively cling in all the wrong places. But it can be much more detrimental. In fact, fire departments respond to nearly 280 industrial incidents involving static electricity...
