Employee safety impacts your company’s bottom line. The best way to decrease the number of workplace accidents, lost-time productivity and workers’ comp rates is to provide ongoing safety training to your employees.

We develop customized safety training to meet your industry’s needs at a time convenient for your employees.

All of our programs meet and/or exceed OSHA’s requirements. We can even develop your annual safety training program and assist you with your reporting and recording needs.

5,703 workers were killed in the workplace due to traumatic injuries in 2004. (Bureau of Labor Statistics)

4.3 million injuries and illnesses were reported in private-sector workplaces in 2004. (Bureau of Labor Statistics)

Nearly 1/3 of all injuries and illnesses involving days away from work were the 400,000 musculoskeletal disorders (back, shoulder, wrist pain and disability) in 2004. (Bureau of Labor Statistics)

The Liberty Mutual Insurance Company estimates that workplace injuries cost U.S. employers $50.3 billion – nearly $1 billion per week in direct costs alone (medical and lost wage payments). Liberty Mutual data indicate businesses pay between $150.0 billion and $301.1 billion annually in direct and indirect (overtime, training and lost productivity) costs on workers’ compensation losses.

OSHA reports more than 13,000 American workers are injured annually in confined space accidents, 5,000 of those seriously…about 60 will die.

On a typical day in the American workforce there are 165 deaths from occupational illness, 5 workers die in highway vehicle accidents, 4 workers are murdered, 3 workers die from falling, 2 workers die in a vehicle off a roadway, 2 workers die from being struck by a vehicle, 1 worker dies in an air, water or rail crash, 1 worker dies by a falling object, 1 worker is electrocuted, 1 worker is killed in a fire or explosion, 1 worker dies from drowning or toxic substance, 1 worker commits suicide, 1 worker dies while trapped in a machine, and 1 worker dies under collapsing materials. (International Association of Safety Professionals (IASP))

Even uncommon fatalities add up in the course of a year, 30 workers die the easily avoidable death of heatstroke, 30 are poisoned to death by carbon monoxide, 10 die from exploding tires, 12 farmers are gorged or trampled to death, and 8 workers inspecting or cleaning machinery are burned to death by escaping steam. (International Association of Safety Professionals (IASP))