SAFETY & HEALTH BLOG

Keep Workers Safe and Avoid Costly Fines with Clear, Coherent Hazard Communications. Last year, one of the largest automotive glass suppliers in the world — a publicly-traded company that supplies materials to all the major automobile manufacturers — appeared to be on top of the world. The company was worth tens of billions of dollars, with manufacturing facilities all over the world. A documentarian even made a major motion picture about the company.  That was quite a distinction.  But last year, this company — which we’re choosing not to name — received a very different distinction.  It was the recipient of a massive fine for safety violations. Last year, the Occupational Safety and Health

Cafeteria Worker Saves Primary School Student’s Life — Thanks to First Aid Training. Is it time to provide first aid training to your workplace?  Odren Polk is the kind of cheerful, primary school cafeteria worker who jokes around with kids and makes them feel comfortable. Now, thanks to a recent first aid training, he’s the kind who might save their lives, too.  “Mr. O,” as he’s known at Stevens Primary School in downtown Williamsport, PA., is often the worker who kids will approach to joke around with and talk to during lunchtime. On a recent school day, he was talking to a group of kids when he noticed that first-grader Kenyon Ritter seemed unusually quiet.

Bullying Can Continue in Adulthood When the topic of bullying arises, many think back to those days as a youth where some nasty kid on the playground made life miserable for passive children who wanted no part of an altercation. The yellow-eyed villain Scut Farkus in the 1983 film “A Christmas Story” is the prototypical bully. In fact, his role was so iconic that the actor who played him, Zack Ward, now spearheads an anti-bullying campaign, using his role in the movie to create awareness about what bullying is and how to stop it. These days, the subject of bullying has become somewhat of a school administrator crusade as most no longer view it as

What does a Safety Consultant do? A Safety Consultant does two very important tasks: (1) they keep workers safe by assessing and eliminating workplace safety hazards, and (2) they help businesses work towards compliance by simplifying complex state and federal occupational workplace regulations, such as OSHA standards. "I would say that a Safety Consultant is defined by one word: support." Who Can Safety Consultants Help? Companies from all industries come to Lancaster Safety in all stages of their safety journey.  New companies that just hired their first employee, to established businesses with 30+ years in the Construction industry and 100 employees; we help them all! Our Safety Consultants have either worked directly

How Following OSHA Rules — and Taking Safety Seriously — Saves Lives in the Workplace When a worker was killed after a crane fell, crushing the man, an OSHA inspection showed that the accident could easily have been avoided by extending outriggers designed to keep the crane from tipping. It was a simple step that would have only taken a few moments to put in place and would have saved that man’s life. In total, OSHA found 13 serious violations during that inspection, levying $70,000 in fines on the company. But for that employee, no amount of fines will bring his life back. On that day, he left home that morning, having no idea