Word Scramble – Don’t Ignore Safety
???He didn???t even see it coming.??? ??? ???She never knew what hit her.??? That???s what can happen when you fail to pay attention to safety hazards.
???He didn???t even see it coming.??? ??? ???She never knew what hit her.??? That???s what can happen when you fail to pay attention to safety hazards.
Warehouse of Woe - The company doesn't understand it. They've been doing great business, but they're losing money on all the worker's compensation claims. Do you have any ideas why?
Oct-07

Ergonomics is all about a good fit between you and your job. The correct answers to these clues are a good fit for these crossword spaces.
The topic of this word search is falls. Search the puzzle for words relating to workplace slips, trips and falls, as well as fall protection gear.

Staying well helps you stay safe on the job. Are you doing what you need to do to stay healthy? That???s something to think about as you search for these words.
Careless clutter puts a bad mark on your safety record. Good advice: Put trash, recyclables and scrap into the proper containers.
Today???s worker is protected by well-engineered equipment and high tech safeguards. But basic safety awareness and work practices are still important.
Furious forklifts, scattered supplies and close calls - they're all here, and somebody needs to fix them. Because, as the old saying goes: it's all fun and games until someone gets hurt.
Sep-07

A worker was inside a pressure trailer tanker applying a coat of anti-corrosive paint. He was using a safety lamp with a 500-watt quartz beam. A folded coat hanger was wrapped around the light and hooked to the manhole flange.

About two weeks before this fatality, an electrical plug on a power cable of a welding machine was found to be damaged. The broken piece was the protective aluminum cover which housed the plug attached
Two workers died of oxygen deprivation as they were repairing the concrete wall at a garbage disposal site. One of them had been attaching anchor bolts to the wall of an intake pit and was
Two workers were installing shutters on the windows of a building. One was about six feet (two meters) above the ground on a scaffold.
Two plumbers had been working in a construction trench. When it was time to come back up to the street level, they rode in the bucket of an excavator. As the excavator operator started to
Two employees were painting the outside of a three-story building. They were standing on a two-point suspension scaffold. The outriggers for the scaffold were inadequately counterweighted with three five-gallon (18.93-liter) buckets of sand. They were
Two finishers were working with a chemical product on a parquet tile floor in a residential basement. The heavier-than-air vapors from the product accumulated and spread to an adjacent room where a gas-fired water heater
A spotter was crushed to death by a road roller during paving work. He had been guiding construction vehicles and general traffic on the road as asphalt pavement was being applied and finished. The roller

A cleanup person was instructed by his foreman to do the cleanup of a conveyor area jammed with debris. This involved loading the debris onto the conveyor, running it until it was clean, shutting it
A punch press operator was killed when he was struck in the head by a hand crank tool. The fatality occurred in a plant that manufactures lenses and other parts for developing photographic film.
A tubular welded frame scaffold was covered with ice and snow. A construction laborer working on the third level slipped and fell headfirst to his death on the pavement about 20 feet (6.1 meters) below.
A forklift driver and two laborers were stacking 40-foot (12.91-meter) I-beams in preparation for a structural steel construction job. One of the laborers was placing a wooden spacer on the last I-beam when the forklift
Two workers died after a welding spark set off an explosion in a tanker truck. They were starting to replace an overflow pipe on the truck when the spark ignited flammable gas in the tank.
When in doubt, improvise. That old advice might work well in certain circumstances, but it’s simply foolish if it involves compromising safety. A malfunctioning ventilation door at a flour mill was resulting in unbearably hot
A 34-year-old male truck driver was killed when he was hit by a load of laminated veneer beams falling from a forklift.