With heatwaves hitting areas all across the world, it's becoming ever more important to prioritize workplace safety and avoid heat illness. To make it happen, there are a few things you'll need to know first--so here's your crash-course in "summer workplace safety" (or any other scenario where heat illness is a risk).

What is Heat Illness?

To promote workplace safety in ways that make a difference, your first goal is to understand what you're up against. In hot weather, that means facing off with a variety of different heat illnesses:

Dehydration

Although dehydration isn't necessarily caused by heat, hot temperatures can be an important factor. That's because dehydration occurs when your body loses more fluid than it takes in--and since hard work in the heat leads to a lot of sweating, this condition should always be on your radar when it comes to workplace safety.

Electrical safety is just one consideration under the much larger workplace safety umbrella, but it's an important one. Today, we'll cover a few of the biggest electrical safety risks on today's work sites and how employees can become more comfortable identifying and avoiding these risks.

The Best Solution for Workplace Safety

A lot goes into keeping your workers safe from electrical hazards. There are all kinds of details to brush up on, changing regulations to learn, and best practices to memorize--which means it's not easy to manage all these things on your own.

That's why the best solution for electrical safety--and workplace safety overall--is to invest in online training courses.

Why? Here are just a few reasons:

For many industries, OSHA inspections are a fact of life--but that doesn't necessarily mean you'll know what to expect during your first inspection. Here's what to know and to be as prepared as possible.

When Does OSHA Inspect for Workplace Safety?

Although OSHA is responsible for ensuring the safety of every U.S. workplace, in most cases the organization doesn't constantly check in on your work. (The exception is industries designated "high hazard," which are required to have regular inspections.) Instead, specific events trigger an OSHA inspection:

• Pre-incident investigations: These inspections happen in response to imminent dangers, like unsafe workplace practices that could lead to death.

Every industry has its trends, but when it comes to workplace safety, multiple fields coalesce to acknowledge and overcome concerns, problems, and risks. In our two-part blog series, we'll explore these trends and what they mean for your workplace.

Today, we're covering part one: the risks your workers are likely most worried about in 2022 (and what they'll look like going forward).

Top 4 Workplace Safety Concerns

Some workplace safety trends never go out of style--like training courses to help workers protect themselves and one another. However, other trends--like the new risks and concerns introduced by COVID-19--grow and change as time goes on.

Here are four topics likely on your workers' minds:

The only thing more important than workplace safety is finding safety trainings that are effective, efficient, and memorable. Today, we'll cover four tips to help you make sure you choose workplace training courses that get the job done.

What Workplace Safety Training Should Look Like

Your business--and the people in it--deserve a high-quality workplace safety training program. However, with so many options out there, it can be difficult to tell whether you're choosing the courses that will actually make a difference for your organization.

Here are four tips to help you choose safety trainings that will inform, protect, and empower your workers on the job:

#1: It should be interactive