Category: Blog
TCIR – Do You Need To Know? — Safety Share
What is TCIR? Spoiler alert… It is Total Case Incident Rate. It is the number of work-related injuries per 100 full-time workers in a year’s time frame. I created a quick video that breaks it down into really easy-to-understand language. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJPJa5MNYJY
Washington State Fatalities Statistics Safety Share
Why are we still having fatalities at work? That is a question that I have on my mind a lot. You’d think by this day in age, we’d have no deaths in any industry. Well, that is not the case. In the state of Washington, we have obviously plateaued and cannot seem to drop below…
What Is PDCA? – Plan, Do, Check, Act – Safety Share
If you’ve been around the site, you may have notice the book Safetyology. That book has its base in PDCA. I am a firm believer that safety should be kept simple because it is simple to maintain at the core. When you start creating all these systems to track this and that, you begin to…
The Weekly Safety Share – Front Loader Safety Tips
Some of you might be asking yourself… What is a front-end loader? It is a motorized vehicle designed to move earth (& other materials) with a bucket on the front. Safety Tips: In today’s post, I just want to go over some of the safety procedures you should be exercising while working in and around…
Safety Procedure Development
I get a lot of questions on how to properly set up a safety procedure. Today’s blog entry is all about the layout and setup of a proper procedure. Each procedure developed in this way can be used all together to create your safety manual. It’s pretty easy to create a safety manual when you…
The Weekly Safety Share – Heat Stress
Heat stress is a killer! Exposure to heat can cause many types of problems in the body. The worst is death. The most serious threat heat can cause is heat stroke. You also have the lesser-known evils; heat exhaustion, heat cramps, and heat rash. There are precautions you can take when temperatures rise high. Let’s…
Nearly 43,000 Deaths On U.S. Roads – Distracted Driving
Weekly Safety Newsletter – Issue #2 EHS Corner: Well, our nice clean record over the last 50 days has abruptly ended. One of our vehicles collided with another smaller vehicle on the freeway. Thankfully, there were no injuries at the time of the incident and only a little damage to the truck and a bit…
Weekly Safety Newsletter – Issue #1
EHS Corner: Memorial Day has come and gone; the summer is fast approaching. That means we will see lots of kids on the streets with school out for the summer very soon. Keep an eye out for those little critters running amuck on the city streets. June is National Safety Month and our goal for…
Beat The Heat
You should know how heat affects you so you can avoid becoming a casualty. Physical problems from prolonged heat waves are caused by the body’s inability to maintain normal body temperature. Although statistically, people over age 65 are the most likely to suffer from heat waves. Heat affects people of all ages including active and…