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A safety committee is a group formed within an organization that functions to serve as an advocate for workplace health and safety.

Safe grease trap design, training, and maintenance, as part of an overall workplace safety and health program, can prevent grease trap‑related incidents.

Situational awareness is an on-the-job safety skill that is critical for hazard identification, effective decision making, and accident prevention.

Workers must be trained in ladder safety and must follow safe ladder use guidelines every time they use a portable ladder on the job.

Employees have a responsibility to treat everyone at work with dignity and respect and have the right to expect the same level of behavior as well.

Because conveyor hazards vary, it is important that machine guarding, secondary safeguarding, and lockout/tagout practices are implemented effectively.

If used correctly biosafety cabinets (BSCs) protect laboratory workers and the immediate lab environment from infectious aerosols generated within the cabinet.

Incident investigations, along with a root cause analysis, should be happening after any injury, property damage event, or near miss happens on the job.

As a leading cause of on-the-job injuries, distractions can lead to missed safety cues, costly errors, lost productivity, dangerous mistakes, and fatalities.