When a workplace experiences an emergency and their employees are in danger, how quickly and efficiently the employer responds can create a significant impact on the safety outcome, if they can go home at the end of the day. To ensure that you can act swiftly and strategically in a workplace crisis, employers must develop an emergency action plan customized to their specific operational and safety requirements.

While society prizes those among us who put others first, it takes more than just empathy to be a successful social worker. Social workers combine active listening, knowledge of the rules, and positivity to succeed. But unlike other public service professions, along with health workers, paramedics, and firefighters, social workers can find themselves in harm’s way. They can, however, reduce their risk if they are prepared.

Here is all of the occupational safety and health-related news that you might have missed in August 2022.

Working in the heat can cause a range of health conditions, putting your people at risk, especially during the summer months. Requiring workers to perform their jobs in hot conditions also requires the employer to do everything possible to protect employees, helping them work in high temperatures safely.

As we continue to live in an increasingly technological world, it can be tricky navigating the mass of information and the number of options for worker safety, such as phone-based apps, safety tags, wearables, etc. As you read further, you will learn about three common types of lone worker safety tools, hopefully making it easier for you to determine which system is best for your team and occupations' health and safety needs.

Here is all of the occupational safety and health-related news that you might have missed in July 2022.

During summer, it’s especially important to pay close attention to your health, wellbeing, and safety as a lone worker. In this article we will look into the ways you can prioritize your health during the summertime heat and how to keep you safe and sound all season long.

Safety check-ins are integral to an effective occupational health and safety (OHS) program, helping improve the overall well-being of your employees, especially lone workers who perform their jobs in isolation and by themselves.

Here is all of the occupational safety and health-related news that you missed in June 2022, which was National Safety Month in the United States. Stay cool and shaded out there!

To find and document important safety details and information, you need to conduct a lone worker needs analysis, which will highlight and improve four primary areas including safety procedures, areas for improvement, opportunities that should be explored further, and holes in your lone worker safety program.

Here is all of the occupational safety and health-related news that you may have missed in May. Hope you’re having a safe spring!

When a worker is experiencing an emergency, they need someone who they can reliably contact to get immediate help. One strategy being employed to address this issue is by creating internal call centers to monitor vulnerable and lone workers. What are a high-functioning and collaborative team, the call center is funded by the company budget or employed by company staff.

Here is all of the occupational safety and health-related news that you missed in April: safety officers, psychological safety, fire safety, safety technologies, connected safety programs, as well as new OSHA rules for healthcare.

A lone worker solution is a system, service, and/or safety device that protect lone workers (people working alone and remotely). It will signal an emergency when the lone worker needs help and it monitors their well-being with safety check-ins. Let’s look at the 11 strategies to evaluate your lone worker solution.

Here is all of the occupational safety and health-related news that you missed in March. Welcome back spring! Setting Lone Workers Up for Safe Success, 5 Best Practices for a Mobile-Based Safety Program, Harness the Power of Data and Analytics to Reduce Workplace Injuries and Fatalities, Workers favor more safety training, digitization of programs, and SafetyLine is nominated for a COS award!

We spoke to Jeffrey Buhr, Director of Philanthropy and his team at the Heart & Stroke Foundation about why heart health needs to be a priority for employers, what can proactively be done to prevent cardiac arrest in the workplace, as well as a number of other interesting areas related to occupational health and safety.

Here we are at the end of February and with-it being Heart Month in North America, there was some focus on the relatively unknown issue of cardiac arrest and heart health in the workplace. Scroll down to see what you missed in safety-related news in February.

Every year, roughly 62,000 Canadians experience a heart attack and stroke which, in many cases, is disabling or deadly. It is also estimated that about 35,000 cardiac arrests take place in Canada annually, and again, these are often fatal. As major causes of death and disability for Canadians, heart disease and stroke are also major occupational health issues in the workplace where cardiovascular health needs to be addressed.

Panic buttons are an important occupational safety technology goes by many names: duress alarm, emergency signal, SOS alarm, personal alarm, alert button, panic alarm and most commonly, panic button. The reason there are so many names and monikers for this safety device is they are so widely used in a wide range of industries and work. Regardless of what they are called, they all are intended to one thing: raise an alarm in emergency situations when an employee requires immediate help.

The 24-hour news cycle has many benefits like constant, real-time news updates as they occur as well as an increase in the overall amount of news we consume. While we are more up to date on the latest news, more than ever, all of these sources, and questioning the legitimacy of these sources, can be overwhelming and time-consuming. With busy personal and professional lives, you may not catch all of the important and relevant safety news of the past month. To help you out, at the end of each month, we will post a curated list of the most important safety-related news so that you don’t miss anything.