Archive: November 2009

At one time or other, you and your co-workers have received training on the “Hazard Communication Standard” alerting you to the chemicals in use at your worksite. But everyone should review this information now and then, as a reminder of the need to be cautious.

The findings of a study by researchers at the University of Michigan have recently been published in the Journal of Applied Psychology and they have come to an interesting, although predictable, conclusion. The researchers found that the switch to daylight savings time increases the rate of workplace injury.

OSHA revealed their top 10 safety violations for fiscal 2009 at the National Safety Council Congress and Expo down in Orlando last week. No big surprises, other than the fact that these top violations are up almost 30% over last year.

When the coughing, sneezing, headache and runny nose start coming on and you know you’ve caught a bug, you won’t want to make a trip to the store to stock up on feel-better essentials. Save yourself a trip when you’re at your worst by giving your medicine cabinet a “flu redo” now.