7 Important Worker Safety Considerations in the Bar and Brewery Industry -- Occupational Health & Safety

2022-10-15 10:25:00 By : Mr. Bruce Lee

Workers can be exposed to multiple hazards in this industry. Learn how to mitigate the risks and keep them safe.

How to Keep Your New Bar and/or Brewery Safe

Workplace incidents can have an enormous impact on injured workers, co-workers and their families. Incidents can also be financially devastating, but you can avoid them with these tips.

Everyone has a role to play when it comes to health and safety. Before opening your brewery or bar, create a policy that discusses safety roles and responsibilities for employers, supervisors and workers. A health and safety program is necessary if you want to manage safety risks.

2. Manage Health and Safety Risks

There are three steps to managing health and safety risks: identify the hazard, assess the risk and control the risk. Here’s how you’ll know if you’re taking enough steps to prevent a hazard:

In case you missed it, OSHA recently initiated an enforcement program to identify employers who fail to electronically submit Form 300A recordkeeping data to the agency. When it comes to OSHA recordkeeping, there are always questions regarding the requirements and ins and outs. This guide is here to help! We’ll explain reporting, recording, and online reporting requirements in detail.

If your organization has experienced an incident resulting in a fatality, injury, illness, environmental exposure, property damage, or even a quality issue, it’s important to perform an incident investigation to determine how this happened and learn what you can do to prevent similar incidents from happening in the future. In this guide, we’ll walk you through the steps of performing an incident investigation.

Lone workers exist in every industry and include individuals such as contractors, self-employed people, and those who work off-site or outside normal hours. These employees are at increased risk for unaddressed workplace accidents or emergencies, inadequate rest and breaks, physical violence, and more. To learn more about lone worker risks and solutions, download this informative guide.

This guide includes details on how to conduct a thorough Job Hazard Analysis, and it's based directly on an OSHA publication for conducting JHAs. Download the guide to learn how to identify potential hazards associated with each task of a job and set controls to mitigate hazard risks.

Without a proper incident investigation, it becomes difficult to take preventative measures and implement corrective actions. Watch this on-demand webinar for a step-by-step process of a basic incident investigation, how to document your incident investigation findings and analyze incident data, and more. 

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