How to avoid COMMON MISTAKES with OSHA Compliance...

You may think your organization is prepared when it comes to safety compliance. But just one missed safety hazard or oversight can result in being hit with costly OSHA penalties and fines. Avoid these compliance mistakes to help your safety program maintain OSHA compliance and show your company takes safety seriously.

Mistake 1: You don’t have clear safety rules, or ways to enforce them.
Without clear rules in place, you have no leverage to find and abate OSHA violations, argue citations or even discipline employees for violations, as your people can always claim that they didn’t know the rules.

Tip: Put it in writing. Explicitly and formally communicate all safety rules to employees in written form, as well the disciplinary actions that are in place for violating them.

Mistake 2: You don’t keep good records.
When OSHA conducts an inspection, your OSHA 300 log and safety files are the first things it will want to see. Not keeping an accurate 300 log is the most common reason organizations get into trouble with OSHA.

Tip:  Store documents online.
Use an electronic safety management program like SIMS™ by ENDURE to easily store and track safety records such as recorded incidents, in real time, ensuring you have the most up-to-date information on hand when OSHA auditors show up.

Mistake 3: You don’t follow up with issues.
Ignoring a serious health or safety hazard that’s been brought to your attention is asking for willful citation from OSHA.

Tip: Put in place follow-up protocols. Develop a clear-cut process of how to address potential or identified hazards and document all actions taken to fix the problem, from conducting safety committee meetings to new training exercises to employee followup.

Do you have a common mistake or tip you would like to share?  Send your suggestions to info@endure-inc.com.

BECOME 

ASK Endure, Inc. how you can stay on task with OSHA Safety Requirements!  Call us at 855-9-ENDURE!

5 Reasons to Use SIMS™

Imagine one of the following scenarios at your company.

1.     An employee files a claim against your company, saying that your negligence contributed to his on-the-job injury.

2.     OSHA cites your business for violating a new safety rule that you didn’t know existed for your industry.

3.     You’re notified by a safety officer that your company has lost track of a critical document needed for an end-of-year compliance report.

The root of all three problems is the same — manual safety management and reporting processes. By using the electronic Safety Incident Management System (SIMS™) by ENDURE for safety management and reporting, your company could save hundreds — or thousands — of dollars in citations, fines or litigation while experiencing other benefits.

Here are five reasons to use SIMS™ at your organization.

1.  SIMS™ provides a security policy.

SIMS™ stores and tracks your organization’s safety information and data in an online database, making it available 24/7. In the event of an incident, you’ll be able to quickly submit critical documents to claims adjustments, lawyers, doctors or regulatory agencies so they can process them immediately, helping your organization significantly cut down on false claims and costly reporting errors.

2. SIMS™ frees up human resources.

In the past, facilities managers spent valuable hours managing and organizing forms for safety, medical and environmental reporting, time that could better be spent overseeing operations. As a mobile application, SIMS™ empowers managers to do all of this administration electronically. By managing safety documentation using mobile devices, your organization can save valuable hours while providing facilities managers with more on-the-job flexibility.

3. SIMS™ accelerates your safety culture.

SIMS™ technology provides real-time data about employee safety behaviors and trends, which you can use to hold employees more accountable to safety practices. By analyzing this data, you’ll also be able to monitor the effectiveness of your safety culture on a daily and annual basis, giving you a foundation to measure progress and identify areas for improvement.

4. SIMS™ keeps you in compliance.

SIMS™ technology is backed by a knowledgeable, professional client support team to monitor your organization’s safety and environmental compliance with government agencies such as OSHA or the EPA. This support team, along with the automated reporting tools of SIMS™, will help you get in compliance with new regulations, as well as stay on top of future rule changes.

5. SIMS™ shrinks your environmental footprint.

From safety reports to attendance sheets,  SIMS™ puts all of your critical safety and environmental documentation online, eliminating the need for paper documents. In addition to cutting costs, going paperless will allow you to cut down on waste in your organization to create more sustainable operations.

Click here to learn more about SIMS™, or contact ENDURE at (855) 936-3873 for a free demo.

Documenting SAFETY and COMPLIANCE with SIMS™

Taking a proactive approach to safety and environmental reporting can save organizations millions of dollars in fines and litigation from government regulatory agencies. Yet many companies don’t have an efficient way to organize, update, track and analyze safety documents that are critical for compliance.

The Safety Incident Management System (SIMS™) from ENDURE helps organizations with safety and compliance recordkeeping by enabling you to:

• Provide facilities managers with real-time data. SIMS™ is a mobile application, so safety managers have 24/7 access to critical documents such as health forms, incident reports and attendance sheets. It also allows them to input data on the go, ensuring your organization’s recordkeeping is always up to date.

• Cut down on clutter. Electronic safety management systems like SIMS™ eliminate the need for paper documents by allowing safety managers to input, update, store and review safety documents online, streamlining the reporting process. Even better, doing away with paper documents means less clutter and more cost savings for your business.

• Keep accurate records for regulatory agencies. Whether you’re tracking daily operations or emergency response activities, SIMS™ automates your organization’s recordkeeping so all of your necessary reporting information is readily available in one location for regulatory agencies and auditors. Automated recordkeeping also makes it easy to produce mandatory safety reports, such as an end-of-the-year OSHA 300 log.

How do you keep track of your critical safety documents? Share your best practices at info@endure-inc.com.

Ask Endure, Inc. about their 

Latest Industry Innovation - 

The MOBILE SIMS ™ APP 

• Automated Reporting
• "Paperless" Working Environment
• Real Time Data Gathering
• Trending Analysis & Risk Assessment
• Medical Data Capture
• Litigation Packaging

Please contact us or comment with any question - 855-9-ENDURE or 

info@endure-inc.com!

www.endure-inc.com

LET US KNOW YOUR THOUGHTS!

How to incorporate SAFE WORK PRACTICES into your CULTURE?

Creating a work environment where people are safe takes a culture where leaders effectively enforce safety practices and employees hold themselves and each other accountable to those practices. To incorporate safe work practices in your culture, you need to balance safety leadership and personal accountability. Here are some tips to get you on the right track.

Employ a safety program manager. Keeping at least one permanent employee on staff to run your safety and environmental management program ensures that someone in your organization is continuously driving safety policy, learning new rules and making recommendations for safety improvements.

Put safety in your mission. Your mission statement should be a personal commitment statement to employees about what is important to your company. The key word here is “personal.” If your mission statement reads like a corporate brochure, rewrite it to explain why safety is important to your company and its culture.

Have more safety conversations. Encourage people to talk about safety at all levels of your organization, which empowers employees to take steps to drive safety practices, whether it is utilizing stop-work authority, reminding co-workers about safety protocols or proactively making suggestions to create a safer workplace.

Get mobile. In introducing a mobile application for safety personnel to manage real-time data about incidents, compliance and other aspects of your safety program empowers them to identify gaps in training or processes and take steps to improve them.

If you have ideas on how to integrate safety into your culture, we would love to hear them. Send your suggestions to info@endure-inc.com.

Please contact us or comment with any question - 855-9-ENDURE 

www.endure-inc.com

PUT SAFETY FIRST! 

SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS!