Safety Resources

Need help with your safety program?  Check out the following resources.

Division of Safety & Hygiene – Craig Smith, (937) 264-5231, craig.smith@bwc.state.oh.us

3401 Park Center Drive, Dayton, Ohio  45414 (off Poe Avenue).  A Division of the Bureau of Workers’ Compensation.  Services are pre-paid by all Ohio employers through your workers’ compensation premium payments.

For a full list of the safety-related services offered to employers, go to the Division’s website at www.ohiobwc.com/employer/services/safetyhygiene.asp.  Services include:

• On-site consultation including safety audits

• Safety committee design and evaluation

• Written safety plans

• Best Practices for Machine Shops – publication that provides machine shop employers with specific safety and health work practices that have been successfully adopted and implemented.  Helps employers prevent occupational injuries and illnesses.  Download or order from www.ohiobwc.com.  Click safety services, publications, safety publications.

• Safety Works for You seminar series – introduces employers and employees to the fundamentals of occupational safety, health, and ergonomics.  Six half-day modules throughout the year.  Register at www.ohiobwc.com.

• Safety “hotline” -- call the Division of Safety & Hygiene at (937) 264-5230

• Ohio Safety Congress and Expo – Free forum for workplace safety practices, technology, products, and services.  Held each spring.  Register at www.ohiobwc.com.

Dayton/Miami Valley Safety Council – Barbara Winford, (937) 226-8253, bwiford@dacc.org

1 Chamber Plaza, Dayton, Ohio  45402 (Dayton Convention Center)

Membership organization for the purpose of enhancing safe and healthy environments in the workplace through education, information systems, networking, and advocacy.

·         Monthly Breakfast with the Experts – speakers on safety and health issues

·         Annual Safety Symposium – full day of safety presentations, speakers, and exhibitors of safety products and services. 

·         Video Library – member may borrow from an extensive library of professionally prepared safety videos covering wide range of topics

Management Assistance, Inc. - Judy Montgomery (formerly with Dayton Machine Tool Company)

(937) 299-1304, jmontgomery@ix.netcom.com; provides safety consultation

Mid-America OSHA Education Center – Susan White (1-888-444-4412), info@midamericaosha.org.     33 Greenwood Lane, Springboro OH 45066

The Mid-America OSHA Education Center is a cooperative effort of OSHA and a consortium of Sinclair Community College and the Ohio Valley Construction Education Foundation, the educational affiliate of the Ohio Valley chapter of Associated Builders and Contractors.  The Mid-America OSHA Education Center provides the most current education and training in occupational safety and health for both general industry and construction.  One of only 19 centers nationally recognized by OSHA to deliver authorized OSHA outreach training, the Mid-America OSHA Education Center is your local resource for all of your standards-based OSHA education needs.  For more information, visit www.midamericaosha.org.

NTMA Safety Resource Center – Instant access to hundreds of downloadable safety training resources.

Provides current OSHA developments, regulatory analysis, best practices, and much more. NTMA members only – www.ntma.org.

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