Showing posts with label Mississippi River Flooding. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mississippi River Flooding. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Hazwoper 1st Responder Awareness Great Benefit with Hurricane Irene


Work conditions change drastically after hurricanes and other natural disasters. In the wake of Hurricane Irene that just whipped through and up the Eastern Seaboard Hazwoper 1st Responder Awareness volunteers will face additional challenges, such as downed power lines, downed trees, and high volumes of construction debris, while performing an extraordinary service to the communities impacted by this ferocious storm.

Hazwoper 1st Responder Awareness Training Course

The Hazwoper 1st Responder Awareness training course is designed for all employees and volunteers to be that will be called upon to deal with a hazardous materials emergency. OSHA and The Department of Labor have required that all employees/volunteers, who answer the call for duty when a hazardous materials accident occurs, must receive training that is solely based on their level of activities.

OSHA Hazwoper

Online OSHA Safety Training as well as the certified and well-trained instructors of this fine safety training location online and on-site never allows one day passing without keeping their minds on the next big disaster. This is not to say that these instructors long for a natural or manufactured disaster, only that they will be and are perpetually ready for the exodus of volunteers and employees that will come when needed by our country.

OSHA Training Courses

The bottom line is that there needs to be in place, at anytime of the day, night, or year, a definitive method for training these Hazwoper 1st Responder Awareness enrollees and volunteers, regardless of the national emergency or the location of such a dreaded happening.

OSHA 10 Hour Training Online

We only have to look back at both the BP Gulf Oil Spill and the Hurricane Katrina Fiasco to know that there must be immediate assistance, and a deepening of concern, for the lives of real, living and breathing American citizens, to see the reality in being prepared. With the exponentially increasing accidents and mishaps that are now occurring on an almost daily basis, the need for only the best in safety training and competency, is what Online OSHA Safety Training provides.

OSHA 10 Hour Training

The Hazwoper 1st Responder Awareness Safety Training Course that is offered 24/7 365 days a year at Online OSHA Safety Training, is there to expedite the training of these volunteers and employees when disaster strikes. Please have a look at what are some of the specifics of this much needed and beneficial to the US infrastructural localities that are being seen as possibly the first rush to arms for those that are needed for assisting those that cannot help themselves or are trapped in concrete rubble.

Hazwoper 1st Responder Awareness Safety Training Course Topics

Adequately Defining Hazardous Materials.
Recognizing first and then identifying the presence of hazardous materials in an emergency situation.
Correlates and defined any and all potential outcome’s of the hazardous materials release.
Knowledge of and ability to use basic information resources while in the course of an emergency hazardous situation.

About the Author
Senior Vice President -Scott Johnson
Scott Johnson, co-founder of Online OSHA Safety Training, guides the flow of the site as well as the employees that make up this spectacular safety training resource. Scott also makes certain that everything is in order, both online and in the real world. An avid fisherman, Scott spends what little time he has away from Online OSHA Safety Training chasing Walleye and Pike on the Winnipeg River.

Scott has also been awarded with multiple accomplishments in his years as a teacher. His experience as a former production supervisor for a power supply company has created an open-minded and open-hearted Vice President, whose door is perpetually open for any situation.

Monday, July 18, 2011

Bob Malhotra of OSHA Safety Training Site Examines Phenomena of Workers Compensation Cases and Costs Minimized Through Injury Prevention

Bob Malhotra knows what it is like to be on both ends of the Workers Compensation scenario. As one of the co-founders of the most-visited in Hilliard, Ohio, online OSHA safety training site, he knows what it is like to have to cover the rates for this form of insurance and the exponentially rising costs associated with a worker injury. “I have personally written checks totally over 100,000 dollars a year for the WC premiums and that is not including the cases where one of my employees was injured!” Bob said in a staff meeting at the home offices of Online OSHA Safety Training. “It is important to have an injury prevention program in place at all times and in all businesses.’

Bob’s Daily Duties

Paying for and making certain that the law is followed to the “T” is only part of Bob’s daily duties, but it is one of his pet peeves when he reads about or hears through the grapevine, that a competitor in the OSHA 10 Hour Safety Training realm, has allowed a workplace accident to close the doors of the business.  The other part of the experience that this man has from and about workers compensation fees and injuries on the job stems from a time a while back where Bob was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

OTJ Headaches!

“I was working on removing a fallen tree from a neighbor’s car when I was struck by a broken limb that was dislodged from the tree. The limb struck me on top of my head and even with the approved PPE outfit and the hardhat perched upon my head the force was so great that it sent me straight to the ground!” Bob said. ‘I was taken to the ER and given a CAT scan and what the doctors discovered was that I had a hairline fracture and was ordered off work and into a WC case filing.”

Endorsing a Fitness Program

The moral of this story is that a worker can never be too careful in the workplace and on the job site. By endorsing a fitness program at the workplace, the costs and the overall good feeling that comes from these types of injury protection are lowered and raised, respectively.

Get Into Gear and Get the Team in Shape on the Job and Off!

About the Author Senior Vice President -Scott Johnson

Scott Johnson, co-founder of Online OSHA Safety Training, guides the flow of the site as well as the employees that make up this spectacular safety training resource. Scott also makes certain that everything is in order, both online and in the real world. An avid fisherman, Scott spends what little time he has away from Online OSHA Safety Training chasing Walleye and Pike on the Winnipeg River.
Scott has also been awarded with multiple accomplishments in his years as a teacher. His experience as a former production supervisor for a power supply company has created an open-minded and open-hearted Vice President, whose door is perpetually open for any situation. 

Monday, July 11, 2011

All About 2011 Version of OSHA 30 HR Course OOST Style

Thank You for selecting OSHA 30 HR Course as your source for only the best and most up to date as well as comprehensive OSHA training and certification resource. As a leading provider online, and on-site, for the OSHA 30 Hour Construction and General Industry training requirements, it is our pleasure to serve you and make your online transition from needing OSHA training and certification to OSHA educated safety-training professionals!

OSHA Compliance and Certification

Our undying dedication in providing online employee safety programs for OSHA 30 HR Course compliance and certification stems from our vast experience in the field and in the classroom. The pursuit of a greater safety training and certification adventure involving OSHA is something that should be taken very seriously everytime and within all instances.

OSHA Training and OSHA Certification

We understand all too well that you do not desire to pay exorbitant amounts for your OSHA safety training OSHA 30 HR Course and certification as we all are feeling the pinch of a stagnate economy. This is why we always keep our pencils sharpened and are perpetually looking for ways and means for saving you money on youre pursuit to be safety trained! The OSHA training courses offered by us here at OSHA 30 HR Course are fully approved by OSHA as well as the Department of Labor.



Thursday, June 16, 2011

OSHA Safety Training Realizes Importance of Confined Space Entry – Get In and Out Safely


Each day thousands of construction workers are exposed to possible injury or death in what OSHA calls “confined or enclosed spaces.” OSHA safety training locations online and onsite realize the potential dangers of these enclosed areas. During a ten-year period from 1995 to 2005, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) investigated 585 fatal confined space incidents claiming 670 lives. Seventy-two of the incidents involved more than one victim. Many times, that second or third victim was someone trying to rescue a coworker without using the proper equipment or training.

Do Not Become a Statistic

Over that same ten-year period, the highest number of fatalities was in manufacturing (152), with agriculture second (128), and construction third, at 90. With the proper training and equipment, this death toll can be zero. Do not become one of the statistics. It only takes a little time to properly prepare to enter a confined or enclosed space.

What is a Confined or Enclosed Space?

The OSHA construction regulations define a confined or enclosed space as any space having a limited means of getting out, and which can gather toxic or flammable gases, vapors, or has oxygen-deficient air. NIOSH also says a confined space is one that has unfavorable natural ventilation.

About the Author

Bob Malhotra is the Co-Founder of onlineoshasafetytraining.com and many other sites and firms with the goal of safety training to the masses in mind at all times. As the author of this review and hundreds of others all positioned on the Internet for easy access, Bob demonstrates both his desire to cover all things safety-related and to display what he has learned with a lifetime of experience and knowledge. Bob has been in the safety-business for well over 20 years and understands both the importance of safety training as well as the Federal Requirements mandated by the Department of Labor and OSHA.

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Scaffolds and Online OSHA Training Examines Reaching Safe Heights


In July 2010, two employees were working on a pump jack scaffold doing roofing work in Austin, Texas. The scaffold became overloaded and broke. The employees fell 12 feet to the ground, resulting in one fatality and one serious injury.

Falling in Orange Park Florida

Another unfortunate and possibly avoidable incident occurred just a month later in the quiet suburbs of Orange Park, Florida. A supervisor climbed up the frame of a 45-foot high tubular welding frame scaffold to check on an employee who was sandblasting inside a stack at a local steam plant. The scaffold was not equipped with guardrails and there was no access ladder. After talking to the employee, the supervisor either fell from the unguarded platform or fell while climbing down the scaffold end frame, resulting in his death. There were no witnesses to the fall.

Safety Training Importance

By examining these terrible workplace and worksite events, it is the hope for all OSHA safety training facilitators, and safety and health professionals in the business of offering education to these lofty workers in America, that these incidents can be reduced. The total elimination of all scaffolding injuries will never completely be at zero, as this would mean that we either evolved with wings or 20 feet tall and the need for scaffolding is reduced and greatly.

OSHA’s 1971 Scaffold Standard

Cases like these remind us all that the danger of working on scaffolding is very real. Despite OSHA’s 1971 scaffold standard, 84 construction workers died from falls from scaffold staging in 2008. What can be done to reduce this number this year? Please have a look below at a few of the reaching safely while on scaffolding requirements.

·         Make Certain Platforms for Scaffolding Are on Secure Level Ground

·         Space Between Planks and Platform Uprights Cannot be More Than 1Inch

·         Guardrails and Safety Harnesses Inspections Before Strapping In and Going Up!

About the Author

Scott Johnson, co-founder of Online OSHA Safety Training, guides the flow of the site as well as the employees that make up this spectacular safety training resource. Scott also makes certain that everything is in order, both online and in the real world. An avid fisherman, Scott spends what little time he has away from Online OSHA Safety Training chasing Walleye and Pike on the Winnipeg River.
Scott has also been awarded with multiple accomplishments in his years as a teacher. His experience as a former production supervisor for a power supply company has created an open-minded and open-hearted Vice President, whose door is perpetually open for any situation.

Monday, June 13, 2011

Vicksburg Mississippi Slowly Recovering From Mississippi River Flooding: Onsite OSHA Safety Training Provider Right There With Mops and Buckets and Hope


As the muddy waters of the flooded Mississippi River continue to recede, what is left is a giant mess of water-damaged items, and residents searching for whatever can be salvaged. Four-wheel drive pickups are now able to reach areas of the flood-stricken Vicksburg region, where only last week, those areas were impassable, unless by boat.

100 Billion Gallons of Muddy Water

With the receding waters and the lives that are utterly decimated by the flooding in Vicksburg, it is time to get to work on mopping up what some experts feel and theorize as being over 100 billion gallons of muddy, now-toxic, Mississippi River water. The task will not be an easy one and the support and the assistance from as many volunteers and workers as the region can muster, begins and ends with a proper team of onsite OSHA safety training leaders.

Great Flood of 2011

These safety training technicians do more than just come to the affected flood areas, they all actually join in the fray and with mops and mop buckets in hand, demonstrate the proper, OSHA ways, of dealing with a massive recovery effort. Our thoughts and prayers are with the people of Vicksburg, Mississippi, and all of the affected-areas that this Great Flood of 2011 has affected.

About the Author

Bob Malhotra is the Co-Founder of onlineoshasafetytraining.com and many other sites and firms with the goal of safety training to the masses in mind at all times. As the author of this review and hundreds of others all positioned on the Internet for easy access, Bob demonstrates both his desire to cover all things safety-related and to display what he has learned with a lifetime of experience and knowledge. Bob has been in the safety-business for well over 20 years and understands both the importance of safety training as well as the Federal Requirements mandated by the Department of Labor and OSHA. 

Friday, June 10, 2011

Onsite OSHA 10 Hour Safety Training Examines Hurricane Dora 1964


In 1964, there was a hurricane that struck the state of Florida with so much ferocity and left so many homeless or worse, deceased, that this storm was officially retired by NOOA. Hurricane Dora - September 7-15, 1964, was that “Terrible Cane” and in her wake, what was left, was nothing more than a swath of stripped to the earth, neighborhoods. That hurricane should stand and does stand forever as a reminder of what these storms can actually do to a region that normally does not have such devastating oceanic-based weather.

Dora Lessons For Safety After Storm Has Passed

At one online safety training site, the impudence is on total and unrelenting hurricane preparation, and what to do after the high winds and the exaggerated tides, have once again subsided and receded, respectively. The Onsite OSHA 10 Hour Safety Training course offering is one of the best ways to safeguards not only life and limb but to make certain that everyone remains safe and sound after the storm has passed.

2011 Hurricane Season Kicking Up Much Sea Water

Most recently, the hurricanes have been eerily quiet and the tornados have been screaming their cyclonic winds off! In the middle-section of the United states, it has been these tornados and the eventual flooding of the Mississippi river which has laid to waste so many billions of dollars in property and more, most importantly, the lives of those unfortunates caught either off-guard or unable to flee these tyrannical winds and waters.

Saving Lives Most Important

This hurricane season, make certain that your safety and recovery disaster team is fully prepared and enroll into the Onsite OSHA 10 Hour Safety Training programs coming and available right now in your area. The life you save may very well be your own.

About the Author

Bob Malhotra is the Co-Founder of onlineoshasafetytraining.com and many other sites and firms with the goal of safety training to the masses in mind at all times. As the author of this review and hundreds of others all positioned on the Internet for easy access, Bob demonstrates both his desire to cover all things safety-related and to showcase what he has learned with a lifetime of experience and knowledge. Bob has been in the safety-business for well over 20 years and understands both the importance of safety training as well as the Federal Requirements mandated by the Department of Labor and OSHA.

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

OSHA Safety Training Helping To Keep Disaster Site Workers Safe During Tornado and Flooding Cleanup and Recovery Operations


The Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSH Act) mandates and requires employers to comply with hazard-specific safety as well as the associated health standards. In addition, pursuant to Section 5(a)(1) of the OSHA Act, employers must provide their employees with a workplace which is absolutely free from recognized hazards. These hazards are mostly the ones that are most-likely to cause death or serious physical harm. Emergency Preparedness Guides do not and cannot, as well as should never, enlarge or diminish an employer's obligations under the OSHA Act. Lives are at stake here and long after the storms of Mother nature have rolled on by or the water and the rivers have once again receded.

Mississippi River Flooding

OSHA safety training is doing their part online and onsite in the ongoing effort to both comply with the OSHA Act and administer safe disaster sites especially after the tornadoes and Mississippi River flooding that has damaged so much in the continental Unites States. During the massive flood and tornado cleanup operations, that most of the mid-section of the country has had to engage within, the issue of safety has always been a prime example of the good that OSHA safety training can impart on a devastated region.

About the Author

Bob Malhotra is the Co-Founder of onlineoshasafetytraining.com and many other sites and firms with the goal of safety training to the masses in mind at all times. As the author of this review and hundreds of others all positioned on the Internet for easy access, Bob demonstrates both his desire to cover all things safety-related and to showcase what he has learned with a lifetime of experience and knowledge. Bob has been in the safety-business for well over 20 years and understands both the importance of safety training as well as the Federal Requirements mandated by the Department of Labor and OSHA.