Safety Training
Upcoming Courses at the USF OSHA Training Institute
Register here for these USF OTIcourses:
501-Daytona Beach, FL 8/2-5/10
6000-Miami, FL 8/2-5/10
510-Wesley Chapel, FL 8/9-12/10
521-Tampa, FL 8/9-12/10
3110-Orlando, FL 8/16-19/10
511-Orlando, FL 8/16-19/10
502-West Palm Beach, FL 8/23-25/10
5602-Coconut Grove, FL 8/23/2010
2264-Ft Myers, FL 8/25-27/10
510-Miami, FL 8/30-9/2
5400-Jacksonville, FL 8/30-9/2
5600-Orlando, FL 8/30-9/2
Safety Week 8/30-9/3
7845 Recordkeeping Rule Seminar
7510 Introduction to OSHA for Small Businesses
7205 Health Hazard Awareness
7300 Understanding OSHA’s Permit Required Confined Space Standard
7405 Fall Hazard Awareness for the Construction Industry
7410 Managing Excavation Hazards
OSHA 510 and 511 Now Available Online
Can’t make it to the classroom? Now you, or anyone in your organization, can take your510 Construction Industry or 511 General Industry course online, anytime you like. These courses fulfill the same requirements as the traditional classroom course and provide the OSHA Training Institute Education Center Completion Certificate.
Workers' Comp Safety Training
The Florida Division of Workers’ Compensation offers free half-day sessions on important workers’ compensation topics and workplace safety all across the state. USF SafetyFlorida will be participating in these sessions. Workers’ compensation topics include:
- Review of Key Statutory Definitions
- Insurance Coverage Requirements
- Exemptions
- Contractor Responsibilities
- Enforcement Provisions
Conference Info and Registration
Hurricane Prep
Season May Match Year of Katrina
From Reuters/CNN
The U.S. government's top climate agency has predicted that the Atlantic storm season may be the most intense since 2005, when Hurricane Katrina killed thousands after crashing through Gulf of Mexico energy facilities. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has forecast 14 to 23 named storms, with 8 to 14 developing into hurricanes, nearly matching 2005's record of 15. Prepare your business now with USF SafetyFlorida's Hurriplanner.
For more information and to register, please visit the USF OTI Education Center.
Bilingual Safety Tools
Print Your English Safety Plan in Spanish
You know how easy it is to click together a safety plan in English with USF SafetyFlorida's free SafetyWriter online software. SafetyWriter also offers the same tool to click together your safety plan in Spanish.
Safety Savings
AST has saved $50,000 in workers' compensation premiums since becoming actively engaged in safety measures.
-- Tom Deagan, Safety Coordinator, AST, Pensacola, an OSHA SHARP company
In the News
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?
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.
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866-273-1105.
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Consultants Corner
Three Williamisms about Inspection, Keeping it Clean, and Organizational Failures
Horizontal Lifelines: Construction or General Industry
Five Safety Actions that Cut the Cost of Accidents
The Importance of Recordkeeping
Four Steps to Developing an Effective Safety and Health Management System
Hurricane Prep & Cleanup
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For safety managers: the USF SafetyFlorida eLetter
Want to receive a free monthly copy of the USF SafetyFlorida eLetter? It's a quick scan of safety and health consultation insights, hazard identification, SHARP (OSHA-inspection exemption) awards, and timely answers from Charlene Vespi, USF SafetyFlorida program manager.Subscribe -- at no cost -- here.
Add a USF SafetyFlorida Widget to Your Website
Let everyone know that safety is a core value of your company. Your web visitors will be directed to the USF SafetyFlorida homepage, where they can request on-site consultation, download safety resources, borrow videos and more. Right click on and save either size widget, then link to www.usfsafetyflorida.com. It's that easy.

