by Purchasing Services Co | Jun 20, 2023 | Blogs
Safety Starts with the Head – Good Head Protection is Vital The traditional hard hat worn for decades on most construction sites and many factory floors protects the wearer’s top of the head from falling objects but offers little protection if a worker falls or is hit...
by Purchasing Services Co | Jun 6, 2023 | Blogs
Environmental Health & Safety Seeks to Minimize or Eliminate Risks in the Workplace EHS – Environment, Health, and Safety – is a growing field that seeks to keep employees, contractors, the public, and the environment safe and free from environmental and...
by Purchasing Services Co | Mar 22, 2023 | Blogs
Workplace Injury: Distractions in the Workplace May Lead to Injuries, Lost Time, and Lost Productivity How many times has it happened? You’re intently concentrating on a task at work but then a co-worker stops to ask a question or just say hi. Your attention is drawn...
by Purchasing Services Co | Feb 21, 2023 | Blogs
New OSHA Guidance May Signal Changes in Citations and Penalties At the end of January, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued new enforcement guidance to its regional administrators and field staff that will enable them to apply a rarely used...
by Purchasing Services Co | Jan 21, 2023 | Blogs
Workplace Fatalities: Bureau of Labor Statistics Releases Grim Statistics for 2021 As the nation gradually began to recover from the pandemic and more workers returned to the workplace, another number – a grim number – also grew. In 2021, the most recent year that the...
by Purchasing Services Co | Dec 12, 2022 | Blogs
Being in Compliance Makes Ethical and Good Business Sense Most companies have someone on staff to oversee compliance, that is, someone whose job it is to know most of the government-made rules and regulations that have been established for a certain industry and can...