Thinking of buying some safety management/EHS management software but not sure how to start?

That’s why we, the makers of Vector EHS management software, created the guide below and put it only a mouse click away for you! Just scroll down to the bottom of this page.

We’re also including a short video discussion explaining the primary features of our own Vector EHS software. Feel free to check it out if you’d like. Let us know if you’ve got any questions or would like to set up a demo.

And of course, we’ve also got a mobile risk intelligence & communications platform as well as online safety and health training solutions for your organizations too!

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As you may know, ANSI and the ASSP have two national standards related to environment, health, and safety (EHS) training. The first, Z490.1, applies to all EHS training and the second, Z490.2, covers EHS training that takes place online or virtually. In our most recent Z490 Basics article, we explained Z490.1 and Z490.2 in more detail.

You may also know that the ASSP’s Z490 committee is currently revising the Z490.1 EHS training standard, which was last updated in 2016. And that Vector Solution’s Jeff Dalto is a member of the sub-committee making those revisions to Z490.1.

As a result, we’re writing an ongoing series of articles keeping folks up to date on all new things related to the Z490.1 revisions, and this is one of those. In this article, we’ll convey some discussions Jeff has had with other people who will be revising Z490.1 as we prepare to begin the revision process. It’s important to note that although the Z490.1 committee has had one “pre-meeting,” work hasn’t officially begun, so do take what you read below with a grain of salt and file it in the “excited plans” or “just talking” category.

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It’s been a tough year for most of us in a lot of different ways and that surely includes issues related to mental health, suicide, and even depression, sadly.

Continuing our recent focus on mental health and suicide as we approach the holidays (you might want to check our recent interview with Cal Beyer on Suicide in High-Risk Industries), we caught up with Dr. Sally Spencer-Thomas to discuss the National Guidelines for Workplace Suicide Prevention.

We’d like to thank Dr. Sally Spencer-Thomas, her frequent collaborator Cal Beyer, and all the hard-working, caring people out there not only shining a light on this issue to make us more aware of it but also giving us actionable tips of how to help.

Happy holidays, everyone. Hang in there and, if you need some help, reach out. We love ya.

Here are some links to things we discussed in the discussion above:

• Our first recorded discussion with Cal Beyer on Suicide & the Construction Industry
• Our second recorded discussion with Cal Byer on Depression, Anxiety, Suicide & High-Risk Industries 
• Dr. Sally Spencer-Thomas’ website
• United Suicide Survivors International 
• National Guidelines for Workplace Suicide Prevention
• Construction Industry Blueprint for Suicide Prevention in the Workplace 
• World Suicide Prevention Day and International Association for Suicide Prevention 
• CDC Reports–Suicide Rates by Industries 

Before you go, download our Guide to Risk-Based Safety Management, below. 

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The American Industrial Hygienist Association (AIHA), and in particular their AIHA Construction Committee, has a guidance document titled Focus Four for Health: An Initiative to Address Four Major Health Hazards in Construction.

You may remember we had a recorded video discussion with Industrial Hygienist Barb Epstien, who helped to create the AIHA guidance document on construction health hazards, in which she explained it to us just a while ago. Check out that recorded discussion on the AIHA guidance document here.

We encourage you to download the AIHA guidance document and read it yourself, but we’ll provide a summary to the health hazards and controls they offer below, too.

And by the way, if the name “focus four” rings a bell for you, the AIHA intentionally selected the name of these construction health hazards so it would resonate with OSHA’s “fatal four” construction safety hazards.

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OSHA recently published yet another guidance related to COVID-19, titled Common COVID-19 Citations: Helping Employers Better Protect Workers and Comply with OSHA Regulations (there’s also a shorter, “Lessons Learned” document they created as well).

As you might have guessed, the new OSHA guidance:

• Lists some common citations related to COVID-19
• Gives some tips for complying with OSHA standards during the COVID-19 pandemic

Although we encourage you to read the OSHA guidance, as always, we’ll summarize the guidance for you here as well.

Be sure to check all of the OSHA guidance documents related to COVID-19 at the OSHA COVID-19 Safety and Health Topics web page.

Also, please check out the free COVID-19 training videos our parent company, Vector Solutions, is offering.

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