Most places in North America are starting to experience the impact of winter, with cold temperatures, snow, and icy roads. Whether you’re driving with your family or for work, safe winter driving is a concern and a priority when the roads start to get slick and slippery. And whether you’re for personal reasons or your job, certain safety steps can be taken that can protect winter drivers in both scenarios, regardless of where you’re going.

On behalf of the SafetyLine Lone Worker team, we want to wish you and your families a Happy Holidays. Over the past 21 years in business, the SafetyLine team has always had a strong corporate value and commitment to supporting local organizations and helping them meet their charitable goals. Every year SafetyLine Lone Worker and Tsunami Solutions (our parent company) donate to various charities and this year we have set aside $5000, a portion of our donation fund to a registered charity, non-profit, or foundation of your choice.

Online safety courses and safety training in the United States and Canada

In recent years, the prevalence of online safety training opportunities has skyrocketed with a wide range of online training courses available.

To help you navigate and prioritize this wide range of available options, below, we have curated a list of the top safety training resources as well as the best safety conferences in North America.

Since early 2020 due to COIVD-19, the work environment has shifted; it became a place where not only potential physical safety hazards existed, but ones that aren’t visible to the human eye, such as deadly viruses or future pandemics. 

With this new, more unpredictable work environment, certain workers became more vulnerable, including healthcare and hospitality employees, as well as those who work alone and remotely.  

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Working alone from home can pose a number of unique risks and challenges. Here’s how to manage workplace safety issues for your remote employees.

Slips, trips, and falls are kind of a constant workplace hazard regardless of your workplace location, however, with cold and wet conditions impacting most of North America during fall and winter, these types of hazards and accidents become more frequent and severe.

Not only do employers and companies have a moral obligation to protect their workers and employees, but they also have a legal one. OSHA regulations regarding lone worker safety are predominantly guided by two core standards.

Safety hazard reporting is not just a quick email or conversation. Hazard recognition and reporting may require some training and education, depending on which industry you’re in. But regardless of how you implement hazard reporting, make sure that your form includes the following 5 key points of information – but customize to your organizational needs as well. 

Depending on your industry and local legislation, your workplace violence program may look different from ours, but regardless, there key areas that must be included in a truly effective workplace violence program.

Every workplace, whether it’s an office or a construction site or a patient’s home, has its own safety hazards and risks facing the workers and team members. Emergencies are more likely to take place when these safety hazards are not addressed, increasing the potential for an incident to take place that could harm and even kill an employee. In many cases, emergencies could have been prevented, or at least mitigated, through proactive planning and assessment of existing and potential safety hazards threatening the team.

As a pioneer who started protecting lone workers via automated check-ins (among other features) in 1999, there are a number of things about SafetyLine Lone Worker that many people do not know. Here are 10 things you didn’t know about SafetyLine

In order to deal with this new safety landscape, employers and workers are also looking to current technology to complement the existing PPE, increasing the safety of the worker, regardless of their situation or setting. This has obviously resulted in a new category of PPET – personal protective equipment and technology. Moving forward, technology will be as integral to the worker’s safety as the steel-toed boots on their feet or 

Pay more attention to communication

When you think of worker safety, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Is it personal protective equipment like face shields or electrical gloves? Or is it an emergency notification device like a panic button? And while these are all important elements of a strong worker safety program, an area often missed is internal communication amongst the team and organization.

A well-planned and researched OHS policy statement is one of the first steps in elevating the safety of staff members, clearly outlining everything your organization wants to achieve in OHS including goals and objectives, as well as strategies and tactics that will involve the team.

When exposed to extreme heat, people become at risk for either heat exhaustion, heat rashes, or heat stroke. The effects of heat stress can vary from mild to life-threatening, which is why noticing symptoms and treating them early can be crucial to saving a life.

Over the past year, the number of people working alone or remotely has increased significantly, particularly in healthcare, where workers are increasingly by themselves because of social distancing guidelines or health authorities trying to provide care in the homes.

Who are lone workers?  In simple terms, lone workers are people who work without any direct supervision or management monitoring their work activities.

Job Safety Analysis (JSA) stands for job safety analysis. JSA is a procedure that integrates safety practices and behaviors into a specific work task or project, breaking the work into specific potential safety hazards, and showing the safest way to perform the job by mitigating the identified risks. (Additionally, the analysis can expand to all areas of the job, which is called total job analysis.) What is key in a JSA is that the targeted tasks and jobs are specific and not too broad, making it more likely to be successful in alleviating the safety hazards.

Every year, more and more online tracking tools are becoming available, providing an unprecedented range and amount of safety data that can be used to protect workers. There are many types of valuable safety data that you can now track, but here at SafetyLine, we’ve helped you out by narrowing down that long list to 7 crucial safety metrics that you need to leverage and start tracking now to provide the best protection for your team from any existing or potentials hazards in the workplace.

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Because teleworkers and remote desktop workers perform their jobs without the physical presence and supervision of a manager or other coworkers, employers, especially those working under a lone worker legislation, must-have solutions to monitoring the safety of their remote team. There are several project management and time tracking platforms that can help follow the work’s progress. Still, to monitor an employee’s safety, the employer should have an online worker monitoring tool available on their smartphone and the home office desktop. The advantage of having a safety monitoring app on the users desktop is that it does not require cell phone power or a battery,