Workplace safety information, easier to find and use.
A free resource for the people responsible for workplace safety, covering the hazards in specific kinds of work and the controls that address them.
Organized around the work you do
Safety professionals spend a lot of time searching regulations, interpreting technical guidance and building resources for their own sites. EHS Community brings that material together in one place.
Each application, such as forklift operation or welding, has a guide to its main hazards, controls and relevant standards. Applications are grouped into material handling, manufacturing, trades, service and clinical work, and we add more over time. The aim is to help you find credible information, understand the risks in the work and make informed decisions about safety.
Made for the people on the hook for safety
Safety managers & EHS coordinators
Running a program day to day and looking for reference material, templates and program guidance.
Supervisors & team leads
Responsible for a crew's safety and looking for the hazards in the work and the controls that manage them.
Owners & smaller operators
Running a shop without a full-time EHS department, who still have to get the fundamentals right.
Where to start
Articles
Articles on hazards, controls, safety programs and regulatory requirements, filterable by application and hazard.
Browse articlesApplication guides
The main hazards in each type of work, the controls that can reduce the risk and the relevant standards.
Browse applicationsTemplates
Editable lockout/tagout procedures, permits, JSAs and checklists to adapt to your site.
Browse templatesInteractive tools
The Safety Assessment scores your program; the Compliance Program Builder suggests which documents may apply to your site.
Explore toolsOur approach
Information, not promotion
Our guidance is written to inform safety decisions, not to promote products or suppliers. Where a product such as matting is relevant, it is treated as one possible control, never the whole answer.
Sources you can check
Articles and application guides draw on regulators and standards bodies such as OSHA, NIOSH, CCOHS, CSA, ANSI and NFPA, and cite the sources they rely on.
Practical guidance
Written for the people who manage safety at work, starting from specific tasks and the hierarchy of controls, with PPE as the last line of defense.
Clear about jurisdiction
Requirements differ between the US and Canada, between provinces and territories, and in US states with their own OSHA-approved plans. Switch countries in the menu to see Canadian standards and editions where we have them.
A note on scope. EHS Community provides general safety information for educational purposes. It is not legal advice and is not a substitute for a qualified EHS professional or your own regulatory counsel. Standards change and jurisdictions differ — where a specific standard is cited, its current official text governs.