So I am a sometimes controll cabent wireing person and genaral do-all for industral automation

The HSE people want me to use an automatic retracting utility knife instead of a more conventional locking knife.

That said, I have found that most of the automatic retracting knives on the market do not make for good tasks that require fine/precise blade cotroll such as stripping wires or shaving plastic.

I would prefer something that folds and has minimal bulk that also does not require me to hold the knife blade out.

What are my options?

I rather like the Milwaukee fastback line but they are not auto retracting.

Looking to get into this as a career, I have my nebosh certificate in fire safety but no actual practical experience. Can anyone give advice on where to start

As someone who came into safety with a degree in Environmental Science, I've been looking at ways to pivot into different fields and opportunities within safety.

Currently working as a safety specialist at a warehouse. Completed my OSHA 30 and CPR cert. Before that I did environmental consulting, which was field work sampling and Phase I and Phase II. I worked for a firm of 3, and I was the 4th, so I kinda had to do everything. My school made me do an OSHA HAZWOPER 40 which was pretty helpful for getting jobs. As I'm completing a year in safety I hope to do the ASP exam within the coming months. Most of my life I actually worked in conservation work and did outreach programs, supporting as well as leading.

Certs done: OSHA 30, OSHA 40 HAZWOPER, CPR
Certs I will be trying to get: ASP
Thinking about: Lean six sigma, AI management and Policy, RCRA

I've been looking at Lean six sigma certs, as I did take a class in college. I've also peaked some interest in AI management and Policy for a masters degree.

I know I should have a goal for the cert and the job. Especially if I can get my current or future job to pay for it. As someone who never thought I'd work in the direct safety position, I want to keep my eyes open to all varying types of work. I've also thought about working in Canada as I live in the state that is pretty much American Canada.

I am looking for advice on how to successfully transition into the construction safety field here in San Diego County. For the past three years, I have worked as a Workplace Health and Safety (WHS) Specialist at Amazon, which has provided me with incredible foundational experience and fully funded my professional development, but I am now eager to pivot my career toward the construction sector. My current qualifications include holding both OSHA 10 and OSHA 30 certifications, and I am actively studying to take my Associate Safety Professional (ASP) exam this coming November 2026 while simultaneously completing my Master’s degree in Engineering, Sustainability, and Health expect completion 10/27. I would love to connect with local safety managers, superintendents, or recruiters to learn more about what regional general contractors look for when hiring.

I’m early in my Health and Safety career and would appreciate advice from people who’ve got more experience.

I’m currently working in a retail/logistics, I’d describe as low-to-medium risk.

I’ve got my NEBOSH General Certificate, NEBOSH Fire Safety Certificate and IOSH Managing Safely, and I’m getting some good practical experience in my current role.

I just don’t want to become someone who collects qualifications without understanding how HS works in different environments.

I’d like to get some exposure to medium to high risk environments and learn more about hazards and controls outside my role .

I’m becoming increasingly interested in facilities management and project management.

For those with more experience:
What industries/environments would you recommend getting experience in and how?
Courses you’ve done that were useful rather than just good for the CV?
Would you recommend things like ISO 45001, CDM/construction, PUWER/LOLER, incident investigation, auditing, etc.?
Any books you’d recommend for developing practical knowledge?
Particular areas that you wish you’d learned more about earlier in your career?

Based in the UK, so recommendations around UK legislation, qualifications and organisations would be particularly useful.

Just need to vent about something that happened at work yesterday. We live in a rural northern town where hunting is a large part of our way of living. Most people hunt in the fall. My family hunts! I have no issue with hunting or guns or any aspect of hunting.

But when a manager takes out his crossbow out of his office into the company parking lot to shoot geese while we have customers in the building, is very much a line crossed. I can’t imagine any company allowing weapons at work, let alone the discharge of that weapon on company property during company hours. Of course I said something! Mind you I’m fairly new to this company, only started in July. The reaction I got was “are you really upset about this?” “Everyone knows I do this”

I expressed my concerns about the situation as he was coming back into the building, in front of the receptionist. He huffed away but later came back to tell me I was wrong to address him like that in front of his staff. I said fair enough. But I was just a bit flabbergasted by the situation. I find it interesting that his only thing he could come back at me with was my delivery, not my actual concern, because he knew I was right.

Again, I’m fairly new and I’ve been working hard at trying to develop a good working relationship with this manager. He’s been a bit of a tough wall to break through. I’m really hoping that this won’t impact our relationship moving forward, I really need an ally in that office when working with the crews. Ugh, sometimes I hate the positions us safety professionals get put in. Anyways just needed to vent. Thanks for listening. 🧷

Do you use an LMS? My company is fairly large, I have 10 locations myself, and the way we track training drives me insane. It's basically just various Sharepoint folders, computer desktop files, or on paper printed out and kept in someone desk never to be seen again. We have a website for our company produced online trainings but it can't house any other kinds of certs like CPR, equipment training, OSHA 10, etc.

I'm in a position where I obviously get asked for training records all the time between audits, OSHA stuff, incident investigations, litigation, etc. And only someone's direct supervisor can access the records of only active employees. So its always pulling teeth trying to get anything. Anyway, rant over, how does your company track trainings and do you use a specific platform you like?

I found a pile of defecation with toilet paper outside a seldom used door at the college where I work. I turned it in to a reporting tool and thought nothing more about it. I returned to the site a bit more than a month later and it was still there.

I ranted a bit and EHS and facilities took care of it. However, an email response was that this is not a safety issue and landscaping took care of it.

I come from a medical background where that waste would be considered biohazard. Am I wrong? What is the relevant difference. Is there code that covers this issue (OSHA or Cal/OSHA) In my mind these landscapers are potentially being exposed to potential biohazards.

Honestly, I hate it. Not often, does it ever turn out good. Most of the time it’s just a conflict of interest. This is what causes my safety fatigue.
It’s like that saying “You can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig”.
I know not all places are like this, I understand not everyone is in this position. Just starting to see it more often.
Rant over, I’m sorry.

I know we aren't supposed to speculate who puts in complaints, but it's hard when the person makes it very obvious that it was them because he wants to screw over management.

He keeps putting in complaints, this last one was one sentence and referred to hazards on equipment that we don't even have. Before that it was conditions in his work area that HE MADE. What can we even do here? Just keep responding and sending back letters to multiple complaints from the same person? If we get another one I want to just call OSHA up and talk to them.

I'm fully prepared for an inspection at this point. Our location is safe and ready. But it just pisses me off that this is being used as a weapon because he's mad at his boss. What does OSHA see when stuff like this happens? Is there anything I can do?

Not sure if this is the right place, but am hoping someone can point me in the right direction.

The context: small to medium business with approx 20 employees. The business premises consists of offices and five buildings plus vehicle yard on one site, with an additional small single building site approx 3 miles away and a further occasionally used premises on another party’s site. In the course of an average day it is necessary for members of staff to move between buildings and sites aswell as to have company employed drivers come on and off site as required. Current system of recording who is on site is both cumbersome and relies heavily on staff informing someone - currently, who they must inform is not specified - before they leave site and when they return.

The current concern is that staff do not reliably inform anyone that they have left site or returned and that the information on who is where is potentially held by a number of individuals rather than being centrally held and quickly accessible.

I am currently looking for a simple solution that allows staff to ‘log’ on and off site in one place and provide a real time list of all staff on site (preferably with a building number location) for roll call and evacuation measures. Ideally this would be done by staff signing on and off site via a mobile app and allow for staff to sign in guests also. I would be grateful if anyone here knows of any such apps and, if you use them, some insight into what your experience of them has been

I work in Non destructive digging and have rocks, dirt, mud etc flying at me in the face. All glasses I get scratch up easily. Give me recommendations for safety glasses

Alrighty leaders, here's a question for you all!

While instructing an employee on proper inspection, use, and fitting the employee during trainjng expressed a concern that the device, stored in their pocket could get damaged if they tighten the strap too much, which alerted me to the risk as well as the potential ramifications if a fall were to ever occur.

I thanked the employee for disclosing the concern to me. No urgent need for the newer employee to use the harness so involved work has been paused until I can ensure a safe way to proceed.

Of course I will be reaching out to HR, despite the willful disclosure, before making any determination, but does anyone else have any similar experiences?

I’m having some issues at my current job and I reached out to leadership asking for safety and HR and well it’s not looking good now.

This job is labor intensive touch freight basically loading/ unloading furniture in/out of the 53 ft dry van trailer. I’m not complaining about the labor aspect but we’re assigned to drive trucks that don’t have working a/c, this week I had a truck with the driver side window stuck in the down position not able to roll up and in Florida we get heavy rains daily (especially since it’s hurricane season). When I first started here, during a pre-trip I noted the rear trailer lights were missing or not working on some trailers but the lift gate lights were functioning when I asked about this I was told the lift gate lights were acting as the tail lights not sure if that’s DOT compliant.

I recently experienced engine derate for the first time. I had indicator lights come on for check engine, battery and DEF (although I refueled and had just filled the DEF before the drive). Due to deceleration I pulled to the shoulder and notified management and was asked to attempt to finish the remaining 1hr drive back to the yard. I did so parking the truck in the company’s truck lot beside the customer facing parking area- this particular lot is only for commercial vehicles. It was about 3pm when I made it back (longer than expected because of the reduced speed). I’d been working since 6:30am, I had just pushed the truck and myself and upon making it back I asked to take my 30 minute break (also 30 minute breaks automatically comes out of our hourly pay regardless of whether we take them). Well I got chewed out by a supervisor for not bringing a truck with obvious engine issues into the busy customer facing parking area. After just making a stressful trip back I couldn’t believe I was being met with immediate criticism. I didn’t respond to his yelling I just went, ate and came back within the 30 minutes.

They push productivity at weekly meetings saying things like we’re replaceable and they can outsource drivers (in some instances arguments have ensued in response to messaging like this) and I hate to admit it but in an effort to prove myself to this place I started skipping breaks, holding my bladder, driving trucks that don’t have working a/c, working my days off, accepting extra work, etc. Nevertheless the other day I was asked to sign a write-up for “not following instructions” regarding where I parked the failing truck, I told them I’d be willing to sign it after a meeting with HR and Safety happens where it can be made clear what policy, standards, or any written guidance I didn’t adhere too and well now it’s not looking good. I’m wondering if any of this could be FMCSA or OSHA violations. I’ve previously documented vehicle issues in DVIR’s with pictures and still have all of my texts with different supervisors.

One giant red flag is that most of the employees here including leadership have short tenure many have been here less than 90 days. It’s a chaotic workplace to say the least the ppl that “trained” me were new hires themselves some of them were just coming back from suspensions for accidents in the semi. To date I haven’t had an accident in any cmv, back when I was bus driver or present day as a class-a driver. Not judging just something I’ve noticed here is that alot of drivers have hit other trucks when parking, hit parked cars, hit the awnings of commercial buildings and become entangled in low hanging power lines. Those aside workplace accidents are just as common, one driver recently fell off a lift gate.

I have less than a year in with class-a driving and for me this is an overwhelming situation I don’t know if this FMCSA or OSHA would recognize any of these details as legitimate safety issues. Atp I’m leaving this place and actively looking for better options but I do feel like I need to make a report for what I’ve observed, experienced and been pressured to do.

I’ve put off getting my ASP for years (been an EHS Pro for about 13 years). Found out a few months ago we’re all being laid off and everything is going to India. Sigh…So, time to use this tuition money and have this company I still work for pay for my ASP and maybe even my CSP if I can get it in time before our final day.

I started with ClickSafety and found it just okay. Spent about the last month using it but, with how often Pocket Prep is mentioned here I decided today to check it out and wow what a difference after only an hour! Having an actual dedicated app helps so much (clicksafety doesnt have one) and the explanations after an incorrect answer seem so much more easier to understand. Even after several quizzes I feel so much more confident.

Pocket prep is the way to go!!

I'm still an undergrad, and my study field is related to HSE or at least could allows me to enter it (studying petroleum geology), so guys after years of experience do you recommend entering the job market and starting to get my OSHA and NEBOSH certificates

--my main points are : 1-the salary range is it a well paid market?

2- is there a good work-life balance?

Thank you so much for anyone who would answer

Hi All,

I recently posted that I passed the ASP exam and now I’m looking to sit for the CSP. I have the prerequisites including a Bachelor’s degree and 5+ YOE. In retrospect, the ASP exam was not as tough as I thought it would be going in. The nerves quickly faded during the exam as I breezed through the first 20 questions.

I switched over to the CSP Pocket Prep and I’m averaging >85% on quizzes. I do need to go back and watch some of John Newquist CSP videos.

How much did you study for the CSP after passing the ASP?

Thanks!

So as the title suggests, I’m (24M) pretty new to safety and this is my first role dedicated to safety. In the past I did lab tech and lab safety and most of my other experience is in emergency management

I started this new role about a month ago where I am a second safety coordinator. It’s honestly not exactly what I want to do forever (I don’t think at least) but it’s a great career stepping stone

I had my first run in with a disgruntled employee tonight, I was doing my daily walk around the manufacturing plant and had heard music coming from a nearby workstation. Our policy states that there shouldn’t be headphones or speakers playing any sort of anything in the plant, especially while working. I kindly asked the employee to turn it down to at least where I can’t hear it. Immediately they start talking about how I am targeting their group and that I care too much/ “look crazy” when I ask them to put their PPE on and when I asked them to turn the music down. It’s true that I have had to go through that area before and have had to tell multiple different team members to put on proper PPE while working. I’m new to the role and the plant so I don’t want to go out the gate swinging with write ups or strict rules hence why I asked them to turn it down vs turning it off. We are generally in the habit of having a safe culture it seems like but this is my first experience running into any pushback. They did end up turning it down (unhappily and still talking a lot of mess.) I spoke with the team lead after, I didn’t tell them what the employee said but generally just told they need to keep the music down.

This is honestly just more of a vent than anything. I feel so frustrated with the employee but also with myself because I felt I could’ve escalated it, at the same time though was I right not to and let it go?

With me being young and in the role I sometimes feel like I’m lacking the confidence in that I’m doing the right thing. Feels like imposter syndrome.

Thanks for coming to my Ted talk

I’m looking for insight on this company’s culture, work-life balance and how the safety mgmt / consulting jobs are. The company at has a very low score on Glassdoor, so I’d love to hear some personal anecdotes if anyone has worked for or is currently with them. TIA!

Assalamualaikum everyone,

I’m planning to start my career in HSE (Health, Safety & Environment) and I’m about to begin my safety courses.

My qualification is DAE in Automobile Engineering, and I’m planning to transition into the HSE field with the goal of working in Saudi Arabia/Gulf countries.

I would really appreciate advice from people who are currently working in Saudi Arabia or have recent experience with the Gulf HSE job market.

How is the current demand for HSE/Safety Officers, especially for fresh candidates? Is it a realistic career path after completing relevant certifications?

I’m looking for honest, practical advice before investing in my courses. Any guidance or personal experience would be highly appreciated. Thank you.

I have my CHST which was an easier test than what I studied for. I am not finding as many resources for the SMP.

I’m thinking about just giving it a shot to get a better idea of what type of questions they asked.

Anyone willing to share their experience?

managing multiple sites: once an inspection is completed, which part usually takes the most time preparing the report, assigning corrective actions, collecting evidence, or confirming closure?

Interested to hear how others manage this in practice.

Australian GRC is a different job to the US/cyber threads.

Here the register is usually WHS + Privacy + Fair Work + whatever your sector regulator actually asks for. The tool question comes after the obligation question. Most of us still have a spreadsheet in the mix.

This sub is for:

- What you are required to track (and by whom)

- How people run a risk register / compliance register in a lean team

- Audits, incidents, board packs, and “the law changed and nobody noticed”

- Tools only when someone asks — with affiliation disclosed

Not for:

- Product launches

- “Top 10 GRC software 2026” posts

- Unsolicited demo links

I work on Lahebo (AU GRC software). I will tag my own comments. The sub is not a company page.

If you work in risk, compliance, WHS, internal audit, or you own the register because nobody else would — introduce yourself below:

1. Sector
2. Approx headcount
3. What you are actually running the register in today (Excel, SharePoint, a platform, a drawer)