A Hazard is anything that has the potential to cause harm, injuries, accidents or other undesirable effects. A Risk is the possibility that a personal injury, property loss or environmental harm will ...

Winter is coming. For employers, this, of course, means colder temperatures and more slippery surfaces facing their workers. However, the safety hazards are much more dynamic than that. These new ...

During this celebrated age of immense power, size, speed and amazing equipment capabilities, danger and agriculture still have much in common. A great deal of food production involves tilling, ...

When you pay for a professional inspection, you are really paying someone to hunt for the problems you cannot see. National research into home inspections shows that defects are uncovered in the vast ...

Psychological safety—the belief that it is safe to speak up with concerns, questions or mistakes—is widely recognized as essential for organizational learning, innovation and workplace safety.

I once had an experience working with a manufacturing operation that included painting processes for the main production line and a small spray-painting area in the repair section. The facility ...

Cal Fire added at least 2.8 million Californians into its Fire Hazard Severity Zones. The zones, referenced in over 100 sections of code and regulation, are tied to home hardening, defensible space ...

As electricians, we understand that there is an inherent risk associated with performing our daily job duties. Aside from the many other non-electrical-related risk exposures that we face on the job ...

For electrical contractors, electricians, or technicians performing electrical maintenance activities in various settings, tasks can be divided into two broad categories: planned and unplanned.