Recognized Hazards

I should probably take a moment to explain the name of the blog.

I work in the occupational safety and health business. Well, it would probably be more accurate to say that I try to bring occupational safety and health to other businesses. What I do is obviously influenced pretty heavily by OSHA, and OSHA's cardinal rule is embodied in a standard they call the General Duty Clause.

The General Duty Clause, in a nutshell, says two things. It says that employers have to eliminate recognized hazards from the workplace, and that employees have to follow the safety rules that employers come up with.

Now, I don't plan on writing a lot about safety in this blog. It's boring as hell if you don't do it for a living, and pretty boring even if you do. I just titled the blog that because it's a combination of words that has always amused me. Probably because one of the first things you realize when you get into the safety field is that the employees themselves are always the most dangerous things in the workplace, and the moment the employer recognizes that fact, they're legally obligated to get rid of all of them.