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Topic: WEBINAR ANNOUNCEMENT

OSHA INJURY RECORDKEEPING: How to Avoid Common Mistakes and “Willful” Recordkeeping Citations

SafetyXChange Staff

Virtually every safety professional in the United States is hit dead center by potential new crackdowns on OSHA 300 log accuracy.
As OSHA moves towards electronic reporting of injury and illness, every error you make may be scrutinized. And if your mistakes appear the least bit suspicious, you could be hit with “willful” citations that would [...]

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Topic: THIS DATE IN HISTORY

January 29, 2003: The West Pharmaceutical Dust Explosion

Glenn Demby, Esq.

West Pharmaceutical Services is a $500 million public corporation that manufactures rubber components for drug vials and syringes. On January 29, 2003, a dust explosion at its Kinston, NC, plant, killed six and injured 38, including two firefighters that responded to the incident.
West’s media response was swift and skillful:

It immediately issued a press statement and [...]

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Topic: HEROES OF SAFETY

Vesna Vulovic: Surviving the Unsurvivable

Glenn Demby, Esq.

On Jan. 26, 1972, a terrorist bomb exploded aboard a DC-9 feet over Czechoslovakia. There were 29 passengers and crew members aboard. Miraculously, one of them survived. Flight attendant Vesna Vulovic. One month after her body was pulled from the wreckage, Ms. Vulovic woke from her coma. The fall from 30,000 feet broke her skull [...]

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