Tuesday was National Forklift Safety Day - but if you are anything like us at Rite-Hite forklift and pedestrian safety is top of mind every single day!

The can’t miss safety conference for employees and their leaders is returning to Nashville, TN on April 3-5, 2019. DEKRA Organizational Safety and Reliability, a global leader in safety at work, today announced registration for the 2019 Safety in Action™ Conference is now open.

Avery Products Corporation, the world’s largest supplier of labels and short-run printing and software solutions, is proud to announce that the company’s Surface Safe Sign Labels were recently honored with the Reader’s Choice Award from Industrial Safety & Hygiene News (ISHN) magazine in the Signs, Labels & Tags category.

A National Safety Council (NSC) survey found 90 percent of America’s employers have been negatively impacted by tired employees, with half saying they’ve had an employee fall asleep on the job. Fifty-seven percent of employers have experienced absenteeism, and another 32 percent report injuries and near-misses due to fatigued employees, according to the survey released today.

A former safety director at auto manufacturer Tesla claims he was fired for bringing workplace safety concerns to management’s attention. Tesla claims he was fired for bullying other employees.

OSHA issued a new policy document last week for its Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP), weakening measures taken in the last administration that were intended to restore the program’s integrity which had been threatened by uncontrolled growth during the Bush administration.

Workplace falls are one of the most common and often serious employee accidents. The reliability of SRDs (self-retracting devices) is a great concern to both employers and employees, which is the point of ANSI Standard Z359.14.

The National Utility Contractor Association (NUCA), the Safety Ambassadors Club and OSHA will hold a Trench Safety Stand Down June 18-23. Participating companies will take a break during the workday to have a toolbox talk or another safety activity to draw attention to the specific hazards related to working in and around trenches/excavations.

Nineteen years is a short life, but that’s all that Kyle Hancock of Glen Burnie, Maryland will get. Hancock died, buried alive earlier this week in a 15-foot unshored trench. Rescuers worked almost 12 hours through a long, rainy night trying to recover his body.

Bally Ribbon Mills (BRM), an industry leader in the design, development, and manufacture of highly specialized engineered woven fabrics, announces its line of safety webbing and tapes, ideal for fire, law enforcement, industrial, military, and commercial fall protection personal protective equipment (PPE).