What makes us different?
Premier Safety Solutions creates a standard of excellence by approaching safety with a positive attitude.
Positive reinforcement encourages management leadership and worker participation in creating and keeping a safe workplace. Safe work habits must become a part of the normal everyday routine.
Premier Safety Solutions provides their clients with high level safety training and specialized knowledge and understanding of OSHA regulations.
- Trenching & Excavation Awareness & Competent Person
- First Aid, CPR & AED Training
- Powered Industrial Truck (Forklift) Operator Certification
- Scaffold Awareness & Competent Person
- OSHA Construction 10 & 30 Hour
- Heavy Equipment Operator Safety Awareness
- Aerial Work Platform Safety Training
- Fall Protection Safety Awareness
- Confined Space Awareness Training & Mock Rescue Exercise
SERVICES WE OFFER . . .
- Safety & Health Programs
- HAZCOM / SDS Programs
- Activity Hazard Analysis
- Onsite Safety Surveys
- Random Employee Drug Screening
- Respirator Medical Review & Fit Testing
DON'T WAIT . . . BE PROACTIVE . . .
Plan & Prevent Workplace Accidents
OSHA Fines To Increase
For the first time in a quarter century OSHA has been directed to increase its penalties to account for current inflation levels, which would raise proposed fines by about 80 percent. This means the penalty for a willful or repeat violation could rise to about $127,000 from the current $70,000. Other-Than-Serious citations could jump from $7,000 to around $12,000. The penalty adjustment is due to occur before Aug. 1, 2016.
With increased penalty amounts comes increased financial risk and liability for each OSHA violation found. Now is a good time to review safety policies and focus on retraining your employees on the rules and requirements in place for working safely.
Construction’s “Fatal Four”
In 2014 there were 4,251 worker fatalities in the private industry alone.
874 or 20.5% of those fatalities were in the construction industry alone, which equates to 1 in 5 worker deaths in construction last year.
The leading causes of those deaths were falls, electrocution, struck by object and caught in between. The “Fatal Four” were responsible for more than half (58.1%) of the construction worker deaths in 2014.
From 2 to 200 in 30
Objects falling from heights are a huge safety concern. Concussions, lacerations and puncture wounds are just some of the injuries that can ensue. In fact, a 2 pound object dropped from 30 feet can have a deadly force of 200 pounds. On construction sites the types of objects that commonly fall are hand-held radios, hard hats, pieces of concrete, nuts and bolts, small tools such as tape measures, wrenches and pliers.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, struck by objects — which include objects falling from heights — are responsible for 10.1 percent of deaths in the construction industry,