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Slips, trips, and falls account for 25% of all injury claims filed each year and cost employers more than $10.5 billion annually. This guide covers ten critical safety topics for the workplace, each with a concrete action you can take and a way to verify you've done it right.
Fall protection has topped OSHA's most-cited violations list for over a decade, and the same ten health and safety topics in the workplace appear in the agency's enforcement data year after year, accounting for the bulk of preventable worker injuries and deaths across American industries.
OSHA standard 1910.145 dictates exact colors, wording, and placement for every accident prevention sign in a general industry workplace.
Workplace safety suggestions fall into three categories: compliance-only programs that meet OSHA's legal minimum, technology-driven systems that use data and wearables to track hazards, and worker-led safety committees where employees identify and fix risks themselves.
Unions that run their own workplace safety audits catch hazards months before OSHA inspectors arrive, build airtight documentation for grievances, and shift power over working conditions back to the shop floor.
More than 5,000 workers died on the job in 2024—one fatality every hour and 45 minutes—while federal enforcement of labor protections declined sharply under budget cuts and reduced staffing, according to a report released April 22 by the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health.
The World Health Organization launched comprehensive framework guidelines to combat workplace violence in healthcare settings while the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration continues enforcement actions despite pushing back federal rulemaking to an undetermined timeline, according to r
