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PIOGA Spring Meeting
Exhibitor/Sponsor PIOGA Spring Meeting & Exhibition May 19, 2021 Rivers Casino, Pittsburgh PA More information here!
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Office Ergonomics after COVID-19
An interesting piece of information was presented in a Pittsburgh Business Times article written by Tim Schooley and published in the April 23-29, 2021 edition titled “Firms Get Closer to Making Decisions”, stating that before the pandemic “…5% of US employees worked remotely…and another 20% were able to shift between Read more…
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Duquesne University SBDC Hosts a Safety Webinar for Small Businesses
The Duquesne University Small Business Development Corporation (SBDC) recently hosted a webinar on workplace safety and injury prevention. The webinar was focused specifically on small businesses. The webinar included a basic review of information including how workplace injures cost small businesses money and decreases profits as well as how injury Read more…
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How Effective is Your Current Safety Program?
Take 2 minutes to answer 11 questions to assess the results of your current safety program. Based on your answers, you will receive a score of your current safety program and three recommendations for improvement! Take the Assessment
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Updating an Infectious Disease Preparedness and Response Plan
The world has come upon the one-year anniversary of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaring the world was in a public health emergency due to SARS-Cov-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, and everything stopped and/or shut-down. As the government started to put out guidance on how to open back up Read more…
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OSHA and a COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard
The Executive Order issued on January 21, 2021 by President Biden, titled “Executive Order on Protecting Worker Health and Safety”, is to set in motion certain items “…to protect the health and safety of workers from COVID-19.” (The Executive Order can be viewed here.) Within the two and one-half pages Read more…
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Annual Safety Goals
With the coming of each new year, we have the opportunity to set safety goals. The premise for the setting of safety goals is so that we know what we want to achieve in the end. We set up objectives or milestones or performance indicators so that we know that Read more…
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Business Continuity Planning
What happens when business is disrupted? It has lost revenues plus extra expenses which means reduced profits and business insurance doesn’t cover all the costs. Businesses may lose customers when the customers defect to the competition because disrupted businesses can’t provide customers with what the customers are wanting in the Read more…
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OSHA Proposes Penalties for Companies for COVID-related Violations
In an October 11, 2020 News Release, The US Department of Labor announced that OSHA had proposed penalties in excess of $900,000.00 in Coronavirus pandemic-related violations from the start of the pandemic through October 1, 2020. OSHA had cited over sixty establishments for violations for failure to: Implement a written Read more…