4 Top General Industry Employee Safety Training Program Courses
Amerisafe Group specializes in helping companies establish solid safety and health programs and provide the necessary training for your workforce. Our approach is “hands on,” with a “keep it simple,” format so that your employers will learn practical information that relates to what they do. We function as a resource for your company’s safety training […]
Fall Protection – Rooftop Solar Panel Installation
Fall Protection Safety In June, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit decided that rooftop solar panel installation is not “roofing work” under OSHA regulations. This Decision and the Court’s discussion of it reaffirms what many safety professionals already knew – that more stringent employee fall protection standard applies to non-roofing work compared to the […]
What Does an Occupational Nurse Do?
According to the American Association of Occupational Health Nurses, “an occupational health nurse as someone who “provides for and delivers health and safety programs and services to workers, worker populations and community groups. The practice focuses on promotion and restoration of health, prevention of illness and injury, and protection from work-related and environmental hazards. Occupational […]
Confined Space Definition According to OSHA
Many industries nationwide, specifically construction, encounter work with one or more confined spaces. In order to keep the worksite safe, employers must ensure they understand many factors regarding the space. Specifically, they must know what qualifies a space as being a “confined space,” how to identify a confined space, how to classify a confined space, and […]
Noise – What is the Hazard?
We constantly stress the importance of occupational health and safety at an industrial construction site, as well as a general industry setting. The main difference between occupational health and safety: safety hazards are more easily recognizable because you can spot them with your own eyes, where health hazards are sometimes disguisable until long-term effects cause […]
Wind Turbine Safety: Risk Prevention
In 2021, the use of renewable energy has been projected to grow exponentially. Today, the most common renewable energy resources are wind power, solar power and hydropower (energy that is generated by moving water). With renewable energy methods becoming increasingly more popular and encouraged, thousands of workers are being hired to install and maintain these power generators. […]
What Does It Mean to Be a Professional Confined Space Rescuer?
Feature submitted from the perspective of a real Rescuer- EMT, Mark Ford, Confined Space Rescuer at Amerisafe Group. Iron workers, plumbers, electricians, sheet metal workers, operating engineers, and other crafts require years of training and apprenticeship to become skilled in one’s craft. Yet anyone can be a Rescue Worker? The difficulty in this situation is […]
First Aid & CPR Training Certification
Be Prepared: CPR Training Certifications A 41-year-old worker at a manufacturer of heating and air-conditioning systems suffered a sudden cardiac arrest at work. After three shocks and CPR he was revived within 4 minutes. Fortunately, his company had AEDs (automated external defibrillators) and trained responders. By the time EMS (emergency medical services) personnel arrived, he […]
Occupational Health Safety – Sun Exposure
Sun Exposure Workplace Safety: Are You at Risk? Workers who spend all day outside are exposed to high levels of ultraviolet radiation, even when it is cloudy. Exposure from the ultraviolet radiation from the sun can damage skin and potentially cause skin cancer, which is the most common type of cancer. In a 2018 poll […]
PEC Basic Safety Orientation vs OSHA 10-Hour Safety Course
Amerisafe offers both PEC Basic Orientation (a.k.a., “Safeland”) and the OSHA 10-hour safety courses. Recently there have been some questions regarding which is “better” than the other. The answer is “it depends” upon why the training is needed and which training could be more useful to a company. Prepared below is the following summary of the advantages and […]
5 Reasons You Need a Confined Space Rescue Team On-Site
1. Convenience The service provided from a confined space rescue team makes all the difference in the world when on a job site. It’s hard enough for a superintendent of a jobsite to be in charge of all the day to day activities, planning the job work for workers, reading blueprints and drawings, working with all crafts, […]
Occupational Health Nurses Week
Occupational Health Nursing Although there are many types of nursing practices in the world, every year one week is dedicated to celebrating the nurses who have devoted their practice specifically to occupational health medicine. Occupational nursing dates back to the end of the 1800s with the first record of a nurse taking care of Pennsylvania […]