PEP up your safety program

Article Abstract:

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration's Program Evaluation Profile helps and strengthens companies' safety and health programs. The program encompasses six major categories, including management leadership and worker involvement, work environment evaluation, accident and record evaluation, risk prevention and control, emergency measures, safety and health training. The program also provides incentives in the form of reduced penalties and rigid inspections.

Standards, Laws, regulations and rules, Work environment, Business enterprises, United States. Occupational Safety and Health Administration

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Let your workers lead the way: participatory ergonomics

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Participatory ergonomics emphasizes the involvement of workers in the formulation of workplace solutions designed to address their bodily capabilities and limitations. Top management investments in expensive equipments and workplace implements are meaningless without worker input. It is only when employees help in making decisions concerning their jobs and what tools to use that they become aware of safety as a self-responsibility.

Models, Ergonomics

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Expect the unexpected: how to protect your workers in a natural disaster

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Employers can effectively protect their workers before, during and after a disaster by developing and refining a comprehensive disaster plan. Government agencies may be tapped in formulating initial programs and drills may be used to refine the overall safety program. Disasters vary and employers should plan ahead so that overall adverse effects to business profitability are minimized.

Crude Petroleum and Natural Gas Extraction, Crude petroleum and natural gas, Crude Petroleum, Methods, Planning, Hospitals, Petroleum industry, Petroleum, Restaurants, Employee safety education, Natural disasters, Emergency management, Emergency preparedness, Mobil

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