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Workplace Safety

Request a free safety consultation
Employers can discover the potential hazards at their work sites and improve safety and health practices.

Get SHARP - join the Safety and Health Achievement Recognition Program
Qualifying small businesses can receive exemptions from OSHA inspections.

Get your Safety Program into SHAPE
The Division of Industrial Safety and Health is excited to begin recognizing safety conscience employers and employees in the public sector. The SHAPE (Safety and Health Award for Public Employees) program is designed for those public sector entities whose employees have not had a lost-time accident for a specific number of consecutive days.

Boiler Inspection Unit
Effective June 10, administration of the Boiler Safety Act will be shifted to the Office of the Kansas State Fire Marshall. For information on Boiler Inspections go to http://www.ksfm.ks.gov/boilers/

Amusement park ride inspections
Information about Kansas regulation of amusement rides.

Get accident prevention information
By law, Kansas Workers Compensation providers must provide safety services to those they insure.

Year-end Accident Prevention Report
Information about why and how workers compensation insurance companies or group funded self-insurance plans file a year-end report.

Workplace Safety Training:

Check out a training video
Borrow training videos on safety and health issues.

Annual Safety and Health Conference
Topics cover a variety of workplace safety issues.

Request training materials
Public entities within Kansas can request online training materials for their employees.

Resources:

Core Safety Guidelines
Basic rules for a safer workplace.

Steps to a Safe Workplace
Make your workplace safer and healthier.

Links to Regulating Bodies
Quick links to safety and health organizations.

Kansas Safety Statutes

Sample Safety Programs:

LOOK WHO'S SHARP

The Safety and Health Achievement Recognition Program (SHARP) provides incentives and support to small, high-hazard employers to work with their employees to develop, implement and continuously improve the effectiveness of their workplace safety and health programs.

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New SHARP Business

Farmers Cooperative Elevator Association

Front row L-R: Ann Tiemeyer, Randy Pfizenmaier, Vince Sorell, Ted Hedman and Rich Lloyd. Back row L-R: Dwight Sherbert, Justin Urban, Larry Kandt, Randy Reed and Robert Clark

Industrial Safety & Health Field Supervisor, Ken Bieker presenting the award to Robert Clark, General Manager, Farmer’s Cooperative Elevator Association.

Farmer’s Cooperative Elevator Association is a country grain elevator which consists of grain storage elevators, a feed mill and an agronomy division. Various products are bought and sold to support the local industry. Farmer’s Cooperative Elevator has six employees.

Kansas has 175 companies in SHARP, 67 of which are grain elevators.

Governor Proclaims June as Safety Awareness Month Kansas Governor Sam Brownback and the Kansas Department of Labor Division of Industrial Safety and Health have proclaimed June as "Safety and Awareness Month." Read the release.