Safety is not an easy task for the best of managers, engineers, designers, and safety professionals. Consider that the Department of Labor's Occupational Safety & Health Act (OSHA) Regulations 1910 and 1926 alone are three-and-one-half inches thick. Add to this the safety requirements of the Mine Safety & Health Act (MSHA), Department of Transportation (DOT), the consensus safety standards of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), and numerous other organizations and one soon becomes swamped. Conventional reliance on just compliance with regulations often fails to control high-risk hazards. In today's world of rapid change, by the time consensus is reached, the costs have risen and the graveyard is already full. New technology soon outdates current standards with new perils.

The Hazard Information Newsletter gives a thorough review of high-risk hazards, applicable requirements and available safeguards so hazards can be targeted like fish in a rain barrel! Each issue highlights a specific hazard and its broad impact under different circumstances. It gives practical how-to answers for both employees and management for a "let's do it" response and makes safety a cost-cutting profit center!

The newsletter covers hazards that cause injuries and fatalities that affect both the community and the workplace and result in personal injury liability. A few of the many hazard topics and available back issues are:

¶ Equipment Rollover - A devastating danger that has taken 50,000 lives.

¶ Moving Parts of Machinery - Still "grasping" - and not letting go!

¶ Two-Blocking - The Achilles heel of cranes!

¶ Fall Prevention - New developments on measuring the slip resistance of surfaces.

Each 12-page monthly issue of the Hazard Information Newsletter contains a complete analysis of one serious hazard and includes:

• Hazard Definition and Discussion
• How it Occurs
• How it can be Prevented
• Available Safeguards
• History
• Human Factors Consideration
• OSHA/ANSI requirements
• Literature sources/Litigation
• Updates
• And much, much more!

F Safety Professionals

Improves analytical skill and provides a ready resource to enhance safety programs.

F Professional Engineers & Architects

Hazard knowledge will let these professionals make improvements in design to avoid liability.

F Construction Managers

Managers responsible and liable for public and workplace safety must anticipate hazards. The Newsletter enhances the ability to oversee construction projects and ensure subcontractors are eliminating or controlling the hazards.

F Small Contractors

For contractors who are unable to employ full-time safety professionals, the newsletter provides an important insight on how to avoid high-risk hazards and develop a practical and cost-effective safety program.

F Building Maintenance Managers

Hazard awareness is the key to prevent tenant injury and avoid potential liability.

F Educators

The Newsletter provides practical, concise and useful resource data on hazards that can be incorporated into education and training courses!

The Hazard Information Newsletter was created by David V. MacCollum, P.E., CSP, to share his proven methods of preventing injury and death. His two best-selling safety books: Construction Safety Planning and Crane Hazards and Their Prevention and numerous award-winning articles tell of effective hazard prevention concepts.

Dave's nearly 50 years of experience includes assignments with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Army Test & Evaluation Command, and the U.S. Secretary of Labor's first Construction Advisory Committee. He has been an advisor to a Swiss developer of tunnel support systems, is a consultant to universities, insurance companies and attorneys, a Past President of the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE), and a senior member of the System Safety Society (SSS).

"Excellent guide for identifying hazards and necessary safeguards." Jeffery W. Vincoli, CSP, author of The Basic Guide Series of system safety methods and techniques.

"Mr. MacCollum is an outspoken advocate for safety based on his 45 plus years of experience and insight. The Hazard Information Newsletter is well suited to those who want to make a difference in terms of product improvement and occupational safety." George A. Peters, P.E., CSP.

"As with his well-organized and easy-to-read book publications, David MacCollum has used the same concept in developing a newsletter that should be a valuable resource to anyone who is interested in hazard prevention." William English, P.E., CSP (William English, Inc.)