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Best Practices: When One Man's Home Is Another Man's Workplace, Part 4; Construction, Repair, and Maintenance Workers
May 2008
A crew for The House Doctor, a home improvement contractor, was working in a Long Beach home when an electric lamp fell onto an employee. Part of the worker's body was touching a water puddle, and the worker was electrocuted. CPR . . . more »

Indoor Air Quality: Moisture, Mold, and Mycotoxins: All Wet or Real Threat?
April 2008
If you had a nickel for every species of mold in the world, you'd have a tidy little stash for your next rainy day--there are more than 100,000 species. . . . more »

Best Practices: When One Man's Home Is Another Man's Workplace, Part 3; Service Providers and Laborers
April 2008
Coast and Valley Carpet Care sent cousins Jose and Victor Cortez to a condo in the Ventura County city of Moorpark two years ago to clean the . . . more »

Best Practices: When One Man's Home Is Another Man's Workplace, Part 2; Home Health, Social Service, and Emergency Medical Workers
March 2008
In Part 1 of our series on employees who work in third-party private residences, we looked at general issues that affect all of these workers and their employers. This month in Part 2, we look at hazards that apply to home health, social service, and emergency medical workers. . . . more »

Construction: The 411 on 811; Why You Should Always Dial Before You Dig
March 2008
A worker digging a trench for a new water main struck a petroleum pipe with a backhoe in the East Bay city of Walnut Creek in 2004 because its location hadn't been accurately marked. The resulting explosion killed five men and left 14 children fatherless. Four different employers faced hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines and $69 million in civil penalties. The pipeline's owner, . . . more »

Best Practices: When One Man's Home Is Another Man's Workplace, Part 1; Working in Private Homes
February 2008
Factories. Construction sites. Hospitals. Farms. There's no question that hazards exist in these workplaces, and if you need safety information for workers in these environments, it's widely available. Workers in industries as diverse as home health, plumbing, and carpet cleaning all have one thing in common: they work in private residences. . . . more »

Safety Behaviors: An Expert's Advice: Get Workers to Select, Sustain, and Switch Their Attention to Enhance Safety
April 2007
What can employers do to encourage workers to pay attention to the task at hand? Robert Pater, managing director for Strategic Safety Associates of Portland, Oregon, has spent much of his professional career focusing on the issue of attention and has some useful suggestions . . . more »

Experts: OSHA Attorney Offers Insight and Advice on Staying out of Legal Hot Water
July 2005
Healdsburg attorney Fred Walter is an expert on the many ways employers run afoul of Cal/OSHA law and how to help them when they do. Walter encourages his clients--which include small businesses, cont . . . more »

Best Practices: Long-Term Safety Strategies Pay Off Over Time
June 2005
If you find yourself replacing one safety "program" with another, hoping for a magic solution, this could be a sign that the problem is your culture--the environment and norms that influence what people believe and how they behave. . . . more »

Experts: One Consultant's Unorthodox Suggestions for a Safer Workplace
April 2005
Sacramento-based consultant Rodney Grieve helps employers reduce accidents while keeping a sharp eye on the bottom line. His firm, Branta, Inc., provides training, leadership development, and other se . . . more »

Challenging Assumptions About Long-Standing Safety Beliefs
April 2005
One of the guaranteed attention-getters at conferences is Rodney Grieve's recommendation to abolish safety meetings. Blasphemy? Not exactly. Like other safety pros, Grieve believes that setting safety . . . more »

Safety and Health Consultants: Choose Wisely for Maximum Return on Investment; A Handy Checklist
September 2004
Selecting the right safety and health consultant is a potentially weighty business decision. Who you pick can influence the well-being of your workers and the quality of your compliance. The right cho . . . more »

Q & A with Peter Greaney
September 2004
Do you use a safety and health consultant? If so, you're like many California employers who find the task of keeping workers protected is easier with outside expertise. Occupational physician Peter Gr . . . more »

Workplace Violence: Q & A with Attorney Rebecca Speer
August 2004
Workplace violence goes far beyond the terrifying image of a disgruntled ex-employee brandishing a handgun as employees huddle under desks. It can include nonfatal physical assaults on employees b . . . more »