At EHS Insight, we love sharing all the best safety tips, resources, and ideas to help your safety team improve. But as the holiday season comes knocking, we wanted to take a moment to share something even more important: gratitude.

The Internet can be a wonderful place. But it can also serve as a cautionary tale. The Reddit OSHA page is one of the best examples of this. It’s full of pictures and stories of mishaps and mistakes from the workplace that folks have shared. In a way, some of these stories are funny, at least they are if nobody got hurt. However, they still violated OSHA regulations and can be dangerous.

More than a million workers participated in OSHA’s 10-hour training in each of the last two years, with most completing the construction industry training. This and similar programs are available to workers who want to learn more about basic health and safety topics as part of OSHA’s formal outreach efforts. While there’s a 30-hour program that covers more in-depth knowledge, the shorter program is intended to cover introductory concepts.

It’s summertime, and the living is…well, certainly not easy, but there is something about the return of summer sunshine that gives us a bit of hope. Even in difficult times, the brightening days can help us feel a little better.

While new developments in the coronavirus pandemic seem to surface every day, some guidance has remained the same for the duration of the pandemic. In fact, one piece of advice has stayed consistent the entire time: don’t touch your face.

In June, the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) released a safety alert after a rise in fall-related mine fatalities.

It’s hard to remember a time when coronavirus wasn’t the heart of our daily lives. That makes it all the more startling that it was only a few months ago.

With the sun in the sky and the weather heating up, it’s time to slather on the SPF – or is it?

The coronavirus pandemic has taken over almost every facet of day-to-day life. New developments seem to appear on the scene every hour, and the situation between one area and the next can be dramatically different.

There’s an art and a science to business travel. Do it wrong, and you’ll spend a lot of wasted hours in airports and scramble to make up lost time in your hotel room. Do it right and you can make the most of what’s available to you.