Environmental Hazards Safety Training Videos

This new course, “ Introduction to Industrial Hygiene” discusses how Industrial hygienists look at the work environment, identify problems that could affect workers’ safety and health, and find ways to eliminate or alleviate those problems.

Most of us are familiar with large oil spills, hazardous waste, and materials and certainly we understand the need for clean air. This is perhaps EPA’s major problem to solve. Clean air is easy to talk about, but difficult to control or make cleaner. Understanding the problem can go a long way in educating people about air quality and why it’s so important. The Clean Air Act is the comprehensive Federal law that regulates air emissions from area, stationary, and mobile sources.

More and more companies that use hazardous chemicals are turning to an approach called chemical safety management. Chemical Safety Management, also known as Chemical Process Safety Management or Risk Management Planning, can help you identify potential risks at your site and establish an organized method for reducing those risks. It’s not a formal procedure so much as a way of doing business, an integrated philosophy that considers your entire operation rather that just pieces of it. Chemical Safety Management involves everyone in your company, day in and day out. It’s a continuous process.

Backhoes are one of the most common types of construction equipment found today and rightly so, as their versatility and maneuverability makes the backhoe the equipment of choice for most construction jobs.