While creating a year-round plan to maintain compliance and promote safety might seem overwhelming, it’s entirely achievable!

To help you in organizing your safety initiatives and meetings, we’ve compiled a year’s worth of safety observances and events, organized by month, to aid your planning efforts. This resource will be instrumental in building a well-rounded annual safety and training program.

Take the stress off planning your safety topics by identifying important milestones and events for Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) compliance and prioritizing key themes to emphasize in 2025.

An effective lockout/tagout program is essential for protecting workers from the release of energy from various energy sources. Lockout/tagout locks ensure machine safety by preventing accidental startups during maintenance or repairs.

Because they play a significant role in workplace safety, building a program from the ground up can be overwhelming. This free guide to creating an effective lockout/tagout program includes:

• Steps for developing a lockout/tagout program from start to finish
• Identifying who requires training and the specific topics they need to be trained on
• Ways to prepare for and respond to an emergency
• Common violations and challenges with lockout/tagout

Prevent incomplete inspections with our thorough safety checklist created by EHS experts with over 100 years of experience. This ready-to-use checklist will help manage facilities, monitor workspaces, and keep equipment in good working condition.

This checklist allows you to:

• Perform repeatable examination of all potential hazards
• Keep personnel organized
• Provide accountability
• Produce safe project management
• Ensure a sense of security
• Analyze health and safety practices and procedures
• Record of inspection activities and findings

With a second Trump administration prioritizing deregulation and potential agency restructuring, both the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) are expected to undergo significant changes and staffing reductions. As federal oversight shifts, state agencies may step in to fill regulatory gaps, creating a complex compliance landscape for businesses.

Watch this on-demand webinar where our in-house team of industry experts will break down what’s ahead for EHS in 2025. They’ll cover:

• EPA and OSHA inspection & enforcement trends – What’s changing and how it affects your organization.
• Deregulation watchlist – Key EPA and OSHA rules that may be rolled back or modified.
• Evolving policies – Updates on electric vehicles, environmental justice, PFAS regulations, and greenhouse gas initiatives.
• State-level responses – How individual states may step up enforcement as federal oversight shifts.