Resources

Safety Links

For your convenience, here are the most important links to help you learn more about loss prevention and safe workplace practices.

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Information on Disaster Planning/Emergency Planning

National Safety Council (NSC)
The National Safety Council is a membership organization with resources on safety, health and environmental topics, training, products, publications, news, and more.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)

UCLA Ergonomic Safety
The UCLA Ergonomics Program provides employees with ergo-friendly solutions to a variety of work-related problems.

Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)
OSHA's mission is to assure the safety and health of America's workers by setting and enforcing standards; providing training, outreach, and education; establishing partnerships; and encouraging continual improvement in workplace safety and health.

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
Official Federal Agency website, including recalls, reports, alerts

American Society of Safety Engineers
The American Society of Safety Engineers is the leading authority on safety, health and the environment, with more than 30,000 members throughout the world.

University of Vermont Safety Materials

National Institute of Health (NIH)
The National Institutes of Health (NIH), a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the primary Federal agency for conducting and supporting medical research. Helping to lead the way toward important medical discoveries that improve people's health and save lives, NIH scientists investigate ways to prevent disease as well as the causes, treatments, and even cures for common and rare diseases. Composed of 27 Institutes and Centers, the NIH provides leadership and financial support to researchers in every state and throughout the world.

Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is one of the 13 major operating components of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which is the principal agency in the United States government for protecting the health and safety of all Americans and for providing essential human services, especially for those people who are least able to help themselves.

Federal Department of Transportation (DOT)
Serves the United States by ensuring a fast, safe, efficient, accessible and convenient transportation system that meets our vital national interests and enhances the quality of life of the American people, today and into the future.

National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)
The mission of the international nonprofit NFPA is to reduce the worldwide burden of fire and other hazards on the quality of life by providing and advocating scientifically-based consensus codes and standards, research, training, and education. Many fire safety standards can be purchased from this organization.

Underwriters Laboratories (UL)
UL is the trusted source across the globe for product compliance. Benefiting a range of customers - from manufacturers and retailers to consumers and regulating bodies - we’ve tested products for public safety for more than a century. Data base for UL List products.

National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is the federal agency responsible for conducting research and making recommendations for the prevention of work-related injury and illness.

American Industrial Hygiene Association
AIHA promotes, protects, and enhances industrial hygienists and other occupational health, safety and environmental professionals in their efforts to improve the health and well being of workers, the community, and the environment.

Canadian Center for Occupational Safety and Health
CCOHS promotes a safe and healthy working environment by providing information and advice about occupational health and safety.

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA)
The primary mission of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) is to reduce crashes, injuries and fatalities involving large trucks and buses.

DOT Office of Hazardous Materials Safety
The Office of Hazardous Materials Safety (OHM) formulates, issues and revises Hazardous Materials Regulations (HMR) under the Federal Hazardous Materials Transportation Law. The HMR cover hazardous materials definitions and classifications, hazard communications, shipper and carrier operations, training and security requirements, and packaging and container specifications.

Lightning Protection Institute
The Lightning Protection Institute (LPI) presents information designed to provide you with a basic understanding of lightning, the severity of lightning strikes, lightning protection systems, and the educational efforts of the LPI.

Compliance Regulations
Source for full text of OSHA, EPA and DOT regulations as well as MSDS

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