I don't know how many audits I have conducted over the last 20 years, but I know it is in the hundreds. One of the areas that I have found hardest to assess as an auditor is the hazard assessment ...

A job hazard analysis is a technique that focuses on job tasks as a way to identify hazards before they occur. It focuses on the relationship between the worker, the task, the tools, and the work ...

Integrating the JHA and Work Planning processes reinforced the new philosophical approach for shifting responsibility for working safely to those responsible for planning and actually performing the ...

A job hazard analysis (JHA) is completed prior to the start of any construction job where there is potential for injury or accident. Larger general contractors have made these a common requirement ...

A Hazard is anything that has the potential to cause harm, injuries, accidents or other undesirable effects. A Risk is the possibility that a personal injury, property loss or environmental harm will ...

We live in a world of acronym fatigue. This something we’re not immune to in the world of health and safety either: HSE, EHS, MOC, WCB and JSA. It seems that for health and safety professionals, not a ...

What does risk really mean when working with electrical systems, and how do electrical workers decide what elements go into a risk assessment? As qualified electrical workers, we seem to identify ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- 2012 NSC Congress & Expo -- Remedy Interactive, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise safety software solutions, today announced a new product that helps ...

To quote Yogi Berra, “You can observe a lot by just watching.” It’s the same when you look at employees, foremen, supervisors, and craft workers busy doing their jobs on the shop floor or around the ...