27 Jan, 2026

Stairways and railings for fall protection

By |2026-01-27T13:32:08-07:00January 27th, 2026|Avoiding Work Place Injury, Employee Safety, Employer OSHA Compliance, Hazard Identification, Ladder and stairway safety, Oil and Gas Safety, OSHA Safety, Walking and climbing surfaces, Worker Safety|0 Comments

Stairways and railings for fall protection. Falls are a serious injury issue in the work place.  IN the oil and gas industry employees often work at heights.  Whether actually working at heights or walking/down stairs or working on platforms, the hazard of falling is ever present. What is the employer’s responsibility for protecting oil and [...]

23 Jan, 2026

Safety Training an Essential Job Element

By |2026-01-23T09:20:39-07:00January 23rd, 2026|Avoiding Work Place Injury, Employee Safety, Employer OSHA Compliance, Hazard Identification, Mine Safety Training, Miner Safety, Oil and Gas Safety, OSHA Enforcement, OSHA Safety, Safety practices, Safety programs, Utility Construction Safety, Worker Safety|0 Comments

Safety training is an essential part of doing a job.  Doing the job safely is just as important as doing the job right.  Safety training greatly improves workplace safety for your employees.   When employees are safe the job gets done faster more efficiently and preserves your most important asset, the employee. Safety training can also [...]

13 Nov, 2025

Safety Training

By |2025-11-13T09:34:01-07:00November 13th, 2025|Avoiding Work Place Injury, Employee Safety, Employer OSHA Compliance, Hazard Identification, Miner Safety, Mining, Oil and Gas Safety, OSHA Safety, Safety practices, Safety programs, Walking and climbing surfaces, Worker Safety|0 Comments

Safety training plays a big role in work place safety.  Fall protection training is required work place. Learn how to not fall. (It is simpler than you might think.) Climbing even a few feet off the ground left us with the feeling of, wow I can see a long way to holy cow, the ground [...]

13 Oct, 2025

Safety Record keeping. Beats trying to remember everything.

By |2025-10-13T09:48:21-06:00October 13th, 2025|Employee Safety, Employer OSHA Compliance, Mine Safety Training, Oil and Gas Safety, OSHA Enforcement, OSHA Safety, Safety programs|0 Comments

Business keeps records for a variety of reasons; i.e. accounting, sales, inventory, etc.  In safety records of safety training are very important for tracking who has been trained in what topics. Being able to identify who was trained in what topics when is crucial for several reasons.  First, you know who has been and who [...]

1 May, 2024

Workplace Incident Reports, or Learning from Mistakes

By |2024-05-01T11:35:12-06:00May 1st, 2024|Avoiding Work Place Injury, Employee Safety, Employer OSHA Compliance, Mine Safety Training, Miner Safety, Mining, Oil and Gas Safety, OSHA Safety, Safety practices, Safety programs, Worker Safety|0 Comments

Workplace Incident Reports, or Learning from Mistakes. If you are a safety manager for a company you no doubt handle incident investigations as part of  your job. The general purpose behind post incident investigations and reports is to provide insight into the cause (root case, etc.) of an incident so that repeat incidents is reduced [...]

4 Mar, 2024

Assign Task, Complete Task, Inspect Completed Task.

By |2024-03-04T11:00:08-07:00March 4th, 2024|Avoiding Work Place Injury, Employee Safety, Hazard Identification, Miner Safety, Oil and Gas Safety, OSHA Safety, Safety practices, Uncategorized, Utility Construction Safety, Worker Safety|0 Comments

Assign Task, Complete Task, Inspect Completed Task. Any time a task is required, say a repair or part replacement, that task was initiated for a reason. If a piece of equipment requires repair, that task is assigned to the appropriate person. The next step is task completion. The final step is to take a few [...]

11 Oct, 2023

Learn how to not burn.

By |2023-10-11T15:38:48-06:00October 11th, 2023|Avoiding Work Place Injury, Employee Safety, Employer OSHA Compliance, Hazard Identification, Miner Safety, Mining, Oil and Gas Safety, OSHA Safety, Safety practices, Safety programs, Worker Safety|0 Comments

Learn how to not burn.  This safety task is fairly simple.  According to OSHA identify potential sources of flammable gases and then identify potential ignition sources.  You identify potential sources of flammable gases by knowing what flammable gases which could potentially be on site.  Do this by examining your job site and identify activities involving [...]

11 Aug, 2023

Stop work authority

By |2023-08-11T15:44:34-06:00August 11th, 2023|Avoiding Work Place Injury, Employee Safety, Employer OSHA Compliance, Hazard Identification, Mine Safety Training, Miner Safety, Mining, Oil and Gas Safety, OSHA Safety, Safety practices, Safety programs, Worker Safety|0 Comments

What is stop work authority? Will this stop my production? Does this mean my project schedules are delayed hours?  Days?  Nope.  In fact, stop work authority can save you, the employer, potentially 10’s or 100’s of hours of time and man hours spent handling the aftermath of a seriously injured employee.  Think OSHA investigations and [...]

26 Jul, 2023

Drugs/Alcohol in the work place.

By |2023-07-26T13:45:27-06:00July 26th, 2023|Avoiding Work Place Injury, Employee Safety, Employer OSHA Compliance, Hazard Identification, Mine Safety Training, Miner Safety, Mining, Oil and Gas Safety, OSHA Enforcement, OSHA Safety, Safety practices, Safety programs|0 Comments

Drugs/Alcohol in the work place. Drugs in our society, be it licit or illicit, are not uncommon.  Operating equipment of any kind or the work place is not suitable for drug use (including some prescription drugs).   The reason being is that  many drugs can effect or impair mental and physical function.  On the job, one [...]

3 Jul, 2023

Learn how to not burn.

By |2023-07-03T10:42:18-06:00July 3rd, 2023|Avoiding Work Place Injury, Employee Safety, Employer OSHA Compliance, Miner Safety, Mining, Oil and Gas Safety, OSHA Safety, Safety practices, Safety programs, Worker Safety|0 Comments

Learn how to not burn.  This safety task is fairly simple.  According to OSHA identify potential sources of flammable gases and then identify potential ignition sources.  You identify potential sources of flammable gases by knowing what flammable gases which could potentially be on site.  Do this by examining your job site and identifying activities involving [...]

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