Tips
from June 26, 2009
The Small Business tips today will be how to establish workplace safety.
- Keep a stocked first aid
kit at your workplace in case of a medical emergency. Keep emergency
numbers for the police, fire department, hospital, and poison control
center in an area where all employees can reach them, such as the break
room.
- Educate employees about safety during a
fire, tornado, or lock down emergency. Have practice drills every few
months and post evacuation and safety information in the workplace.
- Keep
your business sanitary, including the supply and break rooms.
Restrooms need to be kept up to code and sanitized on an hourly basis.
- OSHA On-Site Consultation is offered to small and medium sized
businesses for free, although priority is given to working environments
which are likely for hazards. OSHA consultants educate employers about
the safety hazards that are present in their workplace.
Daily
Overview: OSHA works to ensure safety in the workplace for you and your employees. For more information, please visit http://www.osha.gov/.
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am not an attorney. I have attempted to condense complicated and
detailed legal issues into 140 characters per line. My interpretation may not
be exact. Please contact an attorney for professional legal advice.
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more information, please visit the American Bar Association.
Here at ABC we post these small business tips to our employee's Twitter
account each day, Monday through Friday. This is a reposting of those tips.
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