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#HazardSpotting is a community safety initiative to help raise awareness about workplace safety violations. Our readers submit photos, and we write a post with special guest insight from featured safety experts.

Think you’ve seen an unsafe work condition? Whether it’s construction, manufacturing, or food safety, we’ll investigate the hazard. Snap a picture and share your story with us by sending an email to the editor at Krissa (at) Smartsign.com.

Home ladder safety woes #HazardSpotting

Home ladder safety woes #HazardSpotting

| February 17, 2015 | 0 Comments

#HazardSpotting is a community safety initiative that helps raise awareness about dangerous workplace safety violations. In our 17th edition, we’re examining home ladder safety in a dangerous icicle-removal scene in Boston. Up and down the northeast, temperatures are dipping into the negatives. Mother Nature has unleashed foot after foot of snow on cities across New England. We’d like to remind you […]

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‘Tis the season for holiday safety! #HazardSpotting

‘Tis the season for holiday safety! #HazardSpotting

| November 19, 2014

#HazardSpotting is a community safety initiative that helps raise awareness about dangerous workplace safety violations. Our audience submits pictures, and we write an article with insight from featured safety professionals. In our sixteenth edition, we’re examining holiday safety in a dangerous holiday lighting set-up scene with guest insight from our friend, Frank Fox. We’re entering […]

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Fire safety on the mean streets of Brooklyn! #HazardSpotting

Fire safety on the mean streets of Brooklyn! #HazardSpotting

| October 23, 2014

#HazardSpotting is a community safety initiative that helps raise awareness about dangerous workplace safety violations. Our audience submits pictures, and we write an article with insight from featured safety professionals. Hazards come in all forms, shapes, and sizes. We’ve discussed several safety shortcomings involving fall protection and prevention, personal protective equipment, and slips, trips, and […]

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VIDEO: Missing fall protection on a flat roof! #HazardSpotting

VIDEO: Missing fall protection on a flat roof! #HazardSpotting

| November 20, 2013

#HazardSpotting is a community safety initiative that helps raise awareness about dangerous workplace safety violations. Our audience submits pictures, and we write an article with insight from featured safety professionals. This thirteenth post was spotted pretty close to home, and we were lucky to have a friend in the construction industry here in Brooklyn take a […]

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What’s wrong with this compressed gas cylinder? #HazardSpotting

What’s wrong with this compressed gas cylinder? #HazardSpotting

| October 1, 2013

#HazardSpotting is a community safety initiative that helps raise awareness about dangerous workplace safety violations. Our audience submits pictures, and we write an article with insight from featured safety professionals. In our twelfth edition, we’re examining transportation and storage hazards of compressed gas cylinders with guest insight from Frank Fox. Some things you stumble upon […]

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#HazardSpotting: Concrete cutting and work safety zones

#HazardSpotting: Concrete cutting and work safety zones

| June 3, 2013

#HazardSpotting is a community safety initiative that helps raise awareness about dangerous workplace safety violations. Our readers submit photos, and we write a post with special guest insight from featured safety experts. This week Patrick Sullivan comments on a photo taken of a masonry saw by a MySafetySign employee. New York City is a busy, […]

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#HazardSpotting: What’s RIGHT with this forklift photo?

#HazardSpotting: What’s RIGHT with this forklift photo?

| May 21, 2013

The nice folks at MySafetySign liked my interview and subsequent comments on the trench photo, and so I sent them this one and offered to analyze it for them. Their #HazardSpotting motif is: “Can you spot everything they’re doing wrong?” But in this photo I must ask, “Can you spot anything they’re doing RIGHT?” To […]

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How many trench dangers can you see? #HazardSpotting

How many trench dangers can you see? #HazardSpotting

| May 16, 2013

#HazardSpotting is a community safety initiative to help raise awareness about dangerous workplace safety violations. Our readers submit photos, and we write a post with special guest insight from featured safety experts. This week Robert L. Carlson comments on a photo taken of a construction trench by a MySafetySign employee. Let’s be clear: April showers […]

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#HazardSpotting in Manila: How many hazards can you see?

#HazardSpotting in Manila: How many hazards can you see?

| May 15, 2013

Hazard spotting overseas For this edition of #HazardSpotting, we’re going international. Shout out to Annie for the photos. Pictured below is high rise construction in the Philippines’s Metro Manila. Although this construction site wouldn’t fall under OSHA’s purview, the principles apply. There’s definitely some hazard spottin’ going down.                […]

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How many safety violations can you see in this photo? #HazardSpotting

How many safety violations can you see in this photo? #HazardSpotting

| April 11, 2013

New York is a busy, bustling city, and sometimes when you stop to smell the roses, you catch sight of some disturbing thorns. One recent morning walk in my quiet residential neighborhood of Brooklyn brought me across the following perilous scene. My first thought was for my own safety; I was walking on that side […]

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