Safety should always be on your mind, but June is a time to emphasize safety even more with it being officially designated National Safety Month.

For general information about National Safety Month, visit the National Safety Council’s website. 

And here we’ve compiled a few Cleaner safety articles worth revisiting that pertain specifically to the wastewater industry:

• This two-part series covers a list of 14 items work crews need to account for to safely work in and around trenches: Trench Safety Part 1; Trench Safety Part 2.

• In this article, Matt Timberlake, president of Ted Berry in Livermore, Maine, discusses the importance of developing a culture of safety throughout a company and four principles that are vital to building that culture.

• Working in sewers means working in confined spaces, which can be particularly dangerous when proper safety protocols are not followed. This article covers a simple five-step process to follow to work safely in confined spaces. 

• The possibility of injury or death should be incentive enough to always keep safety top of mind. If you need more, this article looks at yet another reason — how workplace injuries can both directly and indirectly affect your company’s bottom line.

• The actual job site gets a lot of attention when it comes to safety, and rightfully so. But it’s important to remember that workplace safety is also tied to what workers do off the clock. This article provides some tips on how to encourage healthy habits for workers that will then help translate into job site safety.