What is Carbon Monoxide and is it Poisonous?
We have all seen the news, or read in the papers, stories of people, entire families dying of carbon monoxide poisoning, their space heater had a leak and filled the home with the poison gas, the family was sleeping and never knew it. That is just one extreme [...]
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The Dangers of Carbon Monoxide
North American Occupational Safety and Health Week
NAOSH week was first launched in June of 1997; Canada has been running it 10 years prior to that. In 1997 the United States and Mexico joined in. Canada has been a great help to both countries in their support and experience in occupational health and safety. NAOSH week helps to bring safety and health [...]
Proper Tank Storage Procedures (Venting)
The consequences of improper tank storage :
In this video a large train-car sized storage tank is purposefully imploded to show the danger of not venting your storage tanks. This can lead to serious injuries, as you can clearly see the amount of power involved.
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Top 10 OSHA Fines for Small Companies
A common mind set for many small construction companies and independent contractors is that they do not see a need for a safety program, because they have so few employees. Luckily every year OSHA Posts it’s compilations of top citations and dollar amounts per inspection. I want you to [...]
Grain Handling Facility Safety
Grain handling facilities can be extremely hazardous and you need to take all appropriate steps to ensure safety. In this article I want to go over training, safety, emergency procedures, and entry into the grain storage facilities. In upcoming articles I will discuss many other important things you need to know when working in the [...]
OSHA Offers RSS Feeds
OSHA now offers RSS feeds of its news content for your reading pleasure. This is a great tool to keep up to date on recent updates and postings, as well as to take advantage of the extensive resources which often go unnoticed on the OSHA website.
For those of you who don’t know, an RSS [...]
OSHA Launches 2008 Teen Worker Safety Campaign
OSHA has launched a sub-site dedicated completely to providing safety information for the working teenagers of the US. What is already there is full of great information and it’s all posted in an easy to read format. The current content includes a Teen Safety Fact Sheet and an article on Building a [...]
Refrigerant Handling Safety
Summer is approaching fast, and you’re going to be servicing your air conditioning units as well as your customers. It’s a very busy time for the air conditioning industry and you need to take care and follow all the safety guidelines in order to avoid injury to yourself, property damage, as well as damage to [...]
Portable Hydraulic Power Safety
How to keep yourself safe while using this powerful tool
Todays post may seem like some bogus corporate ‘paid recommendation’ but I promise you it’s not. The name “Porta Power “doesn’t really tell you the potential life saving aspects of this tool. But if you’re ever in a serious accident you’ll be thankful for this [...]
Blasting Safety for Construction and Mining Sites
Blasting on the Construction / Mining Site
I have been to blasting sites before, I was at quite a distance so I never really knew all that was entailed in the process. Blasters have to go through extensive training, have permits, and follow strict rules and regulations. It’s by far one of the most dangerous jobs [...]

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