Tag: Workplace Safety

Anaphylaxis: Do Your Employees Know How to Respond?

Yesterday’s Advisor presented the start of a brief training session on how to handle life-threatening allergic reactions, a condition known as “anaphylaxis.” Today, we conclude the training session with how to recognize anaphylactic symptoms and how to treat anaphylaxis.

Training Workers to Deal with Life-Threatening Allergic Reactions

A great many people suffer from allergies, and an unfortunate minority have allergies so severe that their reaction is a life-threatening condition called “anaphylaxis.” Today’s Advisor will provide you with a brief—but potentially life-saving—training session on how to deal with anaphylaxis.

The Five P’s of Safety Training

For some training goals, such as refreshers after a near-miss incident or reminders of seasonal hazards, shorter may be better when it comes to your training sessions. Use the simple Five P Plan to quickly and effectively affect employee safety behavior.

Winter Workplace Safety: Cold Weather Training

Winter can bring with it a host of safety-related issues that need to be addressed in the workplace. Here are some of the costs and consequences of winter-related accidents in the workplace—and also a few easy steps you can take to avoid these winter woes at work.

Do You Run Active Shooter Drills? If Not, You’re Not Alone

Workplace violence is an all-too-familiar presence in the daily news, and these reports provide repeated reminders to employers nationwide that active shooter incidents are not just a potential threat but a real one. While it may be reassuring to think, “That will never happen here,” it is important to be proactive, plan ahead, and train […]

Workers with IDDs: Safety Training Objectives

By Jennifer Busick In yesterday’s Advisor, guest columnist Jennifer Busick outlined eight core safety competencies that workers with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDDs) need to develop. Today Busick presents six safety training objectives for these employees.

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Workers with Intellectual or Developmental Disabilities: Eight Core Safety Competencies They Must Learn

By Jennifer Busick If you employ workers with intellectual or developmental disabilities (IDDs), you’re dealing with a population that needs some targeted attention in order to prevent injuries. Guest columnist Jennifer Busick has compiled eight key safety competencies that these employees must develop in training.

Be Prepared for The Worst Case Scenario – Workplace Violence

With workplace violence attacks becoming more prevalent in the US, organizations need to be prepared for worst-case scenarios. Attacks in the workplace average three deaths and up to 12 injuries per attack, and lawsuits average $500,000 with jury awards averaging $3 million. Worse yet, the loss of friends and colleagues in the workplace is devastating…and […]

The Aftermath: Dealing with an Uncontained Spill

By Jennifer Busick In yesterday’s Advisor, guest columnist Jennifer Busick looked at preventive measures that can keep a spill controlled and contained until it can be dealt with. But what happens when the spill control fails or when it was inadequate or absent in the first place? Busick tackles the topic in today’s Advisor.