Agriculture

Maintain Your Guard Around Mobile Equipment

Every year, more than 100 workers across North America die and thousands more are injured in highway work zones—areas where road construction, maintenance or utility work is being undertaken.

Maintain Your Guard Around Mobile EquipmentVicky Pickford2018-01-29T00:00:00+00:00

Hand and Power Tools – 10 Tips for Safe Use

Hand and power tool injuries send more than 400,000 workers to the emergency room and cause hundreds of deaths every year. In this safety talk learn about some of the potential hazards associated with using hand and power tools.

Hand and Power Tools – 10 Tips for Safe UseVicky Pickford2018-01-29T00:00:00+00:00

Belt Yourself for Safety

You?ve heard it before and you?ll hear it again because it?s a fact - seatbelts save lives. A high percentage of all work-related fatalities each year are caused by motor vehicle crashes. Many of these deaths could have been avoided if the drivers and passengers in these vehicles had been belted in.

Belt Yourself for SafetyVicky Pickford2018-01-29T00:00:00+00:00

Straight Talk About Straight Ladder Safety

Two workers were attempting to install a wooden sign board on the storefront of a building. They were both on the ground attempting to position an aluminum ladder. They lost control of it, causing the ladder to fall backwards.

Straight Talk About Straight Ladder SafetyVicky Pickford2018-01-29T00:00:00+00:00

Air Under Pressure is Hazardous

Tools using compressed air can be worth their weight in gold. Handled properly, they save a lot of sweating, grunting and possibly swearing.

Air Under Pressure is HazardousVicky Pickford2018-01-29T00:00:00+00:00

Hand Tool Hazards

We all know how important it is to use caution around power tools. But what about tools in general? Can a wrench really be dangerous?

Hand Tool HazardsVicky Pickford2018-01-29T00:00:00+00:00

10 Basic Safety Rules

Workplace safety can be a complex issue, but learning and adhering to a few safety basics can go a long way toward keeping employees safe on the job. Many workplace injuries and fatalities are directly related to either not knowing how to do something and attempting it anyway or committing unsafe acts through inattention or for other reasons.

10 Basic Safety RulesVicky Pickford2018-01-29T00:00:00+00:00

Dig Deep for Trenching and Excavation Safety

In this Safety Talk, learn about trench hazards and evacuation procedures to help prevent workers being injured or killed if a trench they are working in collapses.

Dig Deep for Trenching and Excavation SafetyVicky Pickford2018-01-29T00:00:00+00:00

Take Care of Your Protective Wear

It?s important to select and wear the correct PPE. It?s equally important that you inspect and care for the equipment properly, so that it will protect you when you need it!

Take Care of Your Protective WearVicky Pickford2018-01-29T00:00:00+00:00

Keep Safety On Hand

The worst, of course, would be an amputation – cutting off a hand or fingers. An amputation can be fatal because of the loss of blood, shock, infection or other effects. An amputation can happen

Keep Safety On HandVicky Pickford2018-01-29T00:00:00+00:00

Fatigue Can Be Fatal

Employees often work shifts that consist of many more consecutive hours or days than the average worker in this country. Additionally, people working the night shift are often faced with hazardous work that is deliberately

Fatigue Can Be FatalVicky Pickford2018-01-29T00:00:00+00:00

Protect Your Back

How This Affects You: Your back is used in all you do, on and off the job, and hurting it can have severe consequences: a lifetime of pain, inability to work or play and reduced income.

Protect Your BackVicky Pickford2018-01-29T00:00:00+00:00

Hand Protection is a Good Deal – Spanish

Sus manos corren una variedad de peligros diariamente en el trabajo.

Hand Protection is a Good Deal – SpanishVicky Pickford2018-01-29T00:00:00+00:00

How to Keep Your Cool When Working in Hot Weather

Your body has a marvelous ability to regulate its internal temperature through sweating and the cooling effect caused by the evaporation of sweat. But there are a number of factors that can interfere with this process and cause your body temperature to spike, resulting in heat illness.

How to Keep Your Cool When Working in Hot WeatherVicky Pickford2018-01-29T00:00:00+00:00

Feeling Hot, Hot, Hot? Stay Safe While Working in the Heat

Heat-related illnesses can range from annoying to deadly, and progress quickly if the person doesn’t receive appropriate medical treatment. Read this safety talk and protect workers from heat related illnesses.

Feeling Hot, Hot, Hot? Stay Safe While Working in the HeatVicky Pickford2018-01-29T00:00:00+00:00

Sharpen Your Tool Safety Sense

It?s ironic that tools are vital to maintaining machinery, yet many people drop the ball when it comes to maintaining the hand and power tools that help them perform this maintenance. Hand and power tools are common items in most workplaces. But they?re still capable of causing serious injuries.

Sharpen Your Tool Safety SenseVicky Pickford2018-01-29T00:00:00+00:00

Soaking Up The Rays Isn’t Such a Good Idea

Trouble is, this worker might not realize that even young healthy skin can get cancer by too much exposure to ultraviolet (UV) rays. Most of the damaging UV radiation we get comes from sunlight. There's

Soaking Up The Rays Isn’t Such a Good IdeaVicky Pickford2018-01-29T00:00:00+00:00

Working With Forklifts
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Working With Forklifts

Agriculture, Article, Construction, English, Forklifts, General Industry, Industry, Language, Manufacturing, Oil and Gas, Topic, Type, Utilities

Working With Forklifts

The forklift is an efficient tool. However, sometimes things go terribly wrong.

Working With ForkliftsVicky Pickford2018-01-29T00:00:00+00:00

Use Extension Ladders Safely

How This Affects You: Every year thousands of employees are injured in falls from ladders.

Use Extension Ladders SafelyVicky Pickford2018-01-29T00:00:00+00:00

Forklift Safety Involves Everyone! – Spanish

Qué tiene que ver usted con la seguridad de los montacargas?

Forklift Safety Involves Everyone! – SpanishVicky Pickford2018-01-29T00:00:00+00:00

Confined Spaces Can Become Domino Death Traps

A confined space is any enclosed or partially enclosed space with restricted entry and exit that is not designed or intended for continuous human occupancy. The word “confined” suggests “small” but many confined spaces aren’t small.

Confined Spaces Can Become Domino Death TrapsVicky Pickford2018-01-29T00:00:00+00:00

Keep a Lookout for Eye Injuries

Every day thousands of workers are exposed to sight altering and life altering eye injuries. Of those workers exposed, over 2,000 end up needing medical treatment each day because of a job-related eye injury.

Keep a Lookout for Eye InjuriesVicky Pickford2018-01-29T00:00:00+00:00

Safety Rules Protect You

The safety rules, policies and procedures of your workplace are there to protect you from workplace hazards and to help prevent injuries.

Safety Rules Protect YouVicky Pickford2023-09-04T17:56:07+00:00

Some Mosquitoes Carry Bad News
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Some Mosquitoes Carry Bad News

Agriculture, English, General Safety, Health and Safety Management, Industry, Infection Control, Injury/Illness, Language, Outdoor/Animal Hazards, Safety Talk, Teach, Teach a Course, Topic, Type

Some Mosquitoes Carry Bad News

In humans, most West Nile virus infections cause either no symptoms or a mild flu-like illness. Severe infections include high fever, stiff neck, disorientation, tremors, muscle weakness and paralysis. The most severely affected patients may

Some Mosquitoes Carry Bad NewsVicky Pickford2018-01-29T00:00:00+00:00

Look Out For The Little Guy

All drivers need to watch out for small vehicles on the road – the compact car hiding in the truck driver's blind spot, the bicycle courier passing on the right side at an intersection and the oncoming motorcycle.

Look Out For The Little GuyVicky Pickford2018-01-29T00:00:00+00:00