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Tips to Avoid the Top 10 Most-Cited OSHA Violations

Employee fatalities in the workplace are one of the worst situations employers can encounter while running a business. In just Fiscal Year 2019 alone, over 5,000 workers died on the job, averaging out to more than 100 fatalities per week, or fifteen cases per day. To combat these stark numbers and better [...]

Safety Best Practices for Contract, Gig, and Temporary Workers

Ralph Carito2021-05-02T13:37:05-04:00May 4th, 2021|Categories: contractor safety, NIOSH, OSHA, OSHA Inspection, personal safety, Special Topics in EHS Management|Tags: contractor safety, EHS Management, Environmental and Health & Safety, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, personnel safety, Ralph Carito, Total Environmental & Safety|

The number of staffing agencies and temporary workers grew rapidly during the end of the last century, and the types of alternative work arrangements continue to proliferate. There now are several types of workers in “nonstandard work arrangements.” The Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) lists [...]