Safety & compliance
Workplace safety training, regulations and compliance in practice.
Safety & compliance 6 min readSilica Dust Training: What OSHA RequiresOSHA's silica standard sets a PEL, an action level and five training topics. What the rules cover, who needs medical surveillance, and how the EU compares.
Safety & compliance 4 min readHow to Read ISO 7010 Signs: Shapes, Colours, FamiliesFive families, five shape-and-colour conventions, and why a sign works before anybody reads it. Plus a searchable index of 332 documented codes.
Safety & compliance 7 min readTrenching and Excavation Safety: What OSHA RequiresOSHA 1926.651/652 explained: when a trench needs a protective system, the egress and inspection rules crews skip, and why cave-ins keep killing workers.
Safety & compliance 5 min readOSHA Injury Reporting Deadline: What Happens NextOSHA can cite employers for missing the March 2 ITA deadline until September 2, 2026. What the rule requires, what a citation costs, and what to do now.
Safety & compliance 4 min readReading Accident Data Without Drawing the Wrong ChartThree ways national accident figures get misused — count vs rate, causes as shares, mixing GUS with Eurostat — and how our free charts avoid all three.
Safety & compliance 7 min readArc Flash Training: What OSHA and NFPA 70E RequireWhat OSHA 1910.332 and NFPA 70E require for arc flash and electrical safety training, who needs it, and how often it must be repeated.
Safety & compliance 6 min readHearing conservation training: what OSHA requiresOSHA's 85 dBA action level triggers monitoring, annual audiograms and training. What the rule actually requires, and how Poland and Germany compare.
Safety & compliance 7 min readHeat Stress Prevention Training: What Employers Must DoOSHA's 2026 Heat NEP covers 55 industries, Poland is drafting hard temperature limits, and Germany already has them. What training needs to cover.
Safety & compliance 4 min readPolish Safety Training Intervals: a Guide for Head OfficeWhich safety training Polish law requires for each job group, how often it repeats, who may deliver it and which provision says so — summarised in English.
Safety & compliance 6 min readRespiratory Protection Training: What OSHA Requires in 2026What OSHA's 1910.134 standard requires today, what its 2026 proposal on medical evaluations would change, and what stays required either way.
Safety & compliance 5 min readHazard Communication Training: GHS Labels and SDS BasicsWhat OSHA's Hazard Communication Standard requires for GHS labels and safety data sheets — plus the 2026 training deadlines employers need to hit.
Safety & compliance 5 min readHow to Calculate the Cost of a Workplace AccidentBuild the figure bottom-up from records you already hold: absence, response, downtime, damage, claims — instead of multiplying by somebody else’s ratio.
Safety & compliance 6 min readChemical Spill Response Training: What to PracticeWhat OSHA HAZWOPER, Germany GefStoffV and Poland chemical-agents rule require for spill response training, and what a program needs to hold up.
Safety & compliance 7 min readBloodborne pathogens training: what OSHA requiresOSHA 1910.1030 explained: training timing and content, PPE, hepatitis B vaccination, and how Poland and Germany handle blood exposure at work.
Safety & compliance 7 min readOSHA Renews Warehouse Safety Inspection ProgramOSHA extended its warehouse and distribution center inspection program to five years. What the renewed NEP checks, who it covers, and how to prepare.
Safety & compliance 6 min readTrain Crew Fire Training: What EU Rail Law RequiresWhat EU rail regulation requires for train crew fire and tunnel evacuation training, and how TSI SRT and TSI LOC&PAS divide the responsibility.
Safety & compliance 6 min readSlips, Trips and Falls Training: What Actually WorksSlips, trips and falls killed 844 US workers in 2024. What OSHA requires, why annual reminders fail, and how VR builds the habit of spotting hazards.
Safety & compliance 6 min readCivil Defense Training for Companies: Where to StartWhat Poland's new civil defense law asks of companies in 2025-2026, who it applies to first, and the five things worth documenting before anyone asks.
Safety & compliance 6 min readMachine Guarding Training: What Operators Must KnowWhat OSHA 1910.212, Germany BetrSichV and Polish law require for machine guards, and what operator training must cover to make the guards actually work.
Safety & compliance 6 min readConfined Space Entry Training: Why VR FitsWhat OSHA 1910.146, DGUV and Polish BHP rules require before anyone enters a tank or vault, and where VR rehearsal covers what a permit alone cannot.
Safety & compliance 6 min readForklift operator training: what the law actually requiresWhat OSHA, Poland's UDT and Germany's DGUV Vorschrift 68 require for forklift operator training, and where VR closes the gap classroom time leaves.
Safety & compliance 8 min readWorking at height: VR practice without the fallWhat counts as working at height, what the training must achieve, and how VR lets crews rehearse judgement and procedure before they leave the ground.
Safety & compliance 7 min readLithium-ion battery fires: prevention and trainingWhat a lithium-ion battery fire is, why it behaves differently from an ordinary fire, and the storage, charging and training habits that prevent one.
Safety & compliance 6 min readLockout/Tagout training: what it must coverLockout/Tagout training explained: what LOTO is, what OSHA's 1910.147 requires you to teach, who needs it, and why hands-on practice beats a slideshow.
Safety & compliance 5 min readFire extinguisher training: classroom vs VRFire extinguisher training compared: what OSHA requires, what classroom and VR each do well, and how to choose a format that people actually remember.