In the News

Construction Crane Safety

OSHA answers frequently asked questions about the new cranes and derricks rule.The final rule rule will take effect on Nov. 8, 2010.

OSHA's New Plans for Consultation and Enforcement

OSHA head David Michaels sets out an aggressive agenda for his agency.

Oil Spill

For information from OSHA on worker safety guidelines during the oil spill cleanup, visit http://osha.gov/oilspills/index.html

Also see:

Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Information for Response Workers

Tracking And Predicting The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill In The Gulf Of Mexico

How Companies Profit from Safety

850, The Business Magazine of Northwest Florida, documents the safety attitudes and practices that save money for a construction firm and a high-end commercial woodworking business.

Jacksonville Business Journal describes how USF SafetyFlorida helps companies Increase Profits through Workplace Safety.

OSHA Fines

OSHA Head, David Michaels, comments on low fines for Florida workplace fatalities and advocates for higher fines in US House testimony.

Landscape Safety...Coping with Heat

USF SafetyFlorida safety and health consultant William Tomlin offers eight ways to protect the safety of landscape maintenance workers. Brief refresher videos.

Ready to Take the Next Step in Safety?

Charlene Vespi, MS.Ed., CWCP, USF SafetyFlorida Program Manager

Worker protection--reducing injuries, illnesses and fatalities on the job--is the primary mission of the USF SafetyFlorida Consultation Program.

See our video! Our safety and health consultants are your key to achieving these benefits. They follow high and consistent standards for helping employers protect their workers. These standards, along with their years of consultation experience, will help you build a workplace safety system that unites all the elements of leadership commitment and job task procedures. With a workplace safety system in place, you can meet production goals while maintaining the health of the whole employee family.

To assist you in developing a workplace safety system, our consultants focus on management commitment, employee involvement and participation in order to establish a safety and health management system that works best for your business. Helping employers develop a safety management system gives us great satisfaction. That’s because, in the short term, our service can provide the hazard identification that directly prevents an employee from getting hurt or killed.

If our consultants find hazards while performing a consultation, we will provide you with a detailed list of those hazardous areas. But we will go beyond that to help you understand why the hazards exist and what specific actions can be done to address each hazard. This level of thoroughness is what employers find so helpful about our consultation program. We are more than about hazard identification but about helping you find hazard solutions that can create a new opportunity to profit from safety.

In summary, our primary purpose is to help your company prevent work-related fatalities, injuries, and illnesses. In the short term, we do that by emphasizing hazard identification. In the long term, we do that by helping you develop a safety management program. Hundreds of companies already have used our SafetyWriter, which helps employers develop a written safety plan. And we have the Sunshine State Safety Award and SHARP OSHA- inspection deferment programs to acknowledge and reward companies that have top-of-the-line safety management systems in place.

If you are ready to take the next step toward safety in your business, please contact us today and request on-line a free and confidential safety consultation.