When workers are electrocuted at worksites it's often because metal objects they are holding touch overhead electrical lines.
Falls are the second leading cause of accidental deaths in North America - second only to motor vehicle accidents.
A flash fire killed an electrician's apprentice when he touched a switch he thought was de-energized. The mishap occurred at a transformer station. The apprentice was part of a team doing modifications on equipment at
A ladder touching a high tension wire - this scenario has caused countless fatalities in all kinds of industries and workplaces and homes. An employee of an aluminum siding company was electrocuted when the ladder
A construction foreman died and a laborer was critically injured after they were exposed to toxic gases while working in a sewage pumping station dry well.
We're taught to make eye contact to signify our intentions - such as when crossing the road on a crosswalk.
Two men working for a municipality subcontractor died of burns received while installing a valve in a concrete sewage channel.
The following checklist on the uses of color coding and [...]
A plant worker climbed eight feet up a steel storage rack structure to retrieve material from a top shelf. He fell to the concrete floor and died. The workplace did not have the proper equipment
A machine at a steel foundry was found to be jammed in the "up" position and could not be lowered. The plant maintenance mechanic, who was an experienced and careful worker, was called to repair
Alcohol use may have been a major factor in the suffocation of a general maintenance worker repairing a water leak.
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The symptoms of heat-related illness would have been obvious to anyone trained to spot them.
Just as you use a checklist to inspect equipment, you [...]
After doing the same job for nearly 20 years, a worker died in a falling from the top of a load on a flatbed trailer. He worked for a company which packaged sand, gravel and
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 17-year old worker died just one hour into his new job after becoming pinned under a forklift. He hadn't received any job orientation or training.
Safety training is critical for any job and if you don't provide it and a worker becomes injured or dies as a result, you and your company could face a legal nightmare.
A 61-year-old woodworker was killed as he was trying to replace a glue tray in a glue-press machine while it was still operating.
Shift-Work Safety Checklist Any supervisor who works in a multiple-shift [...]
A job of repainting an outdoor stairway at a commuter train station was the end of the line for a 45-year old man. He fell from a stepladder while painting the concrete and metal stairway
A load of wooden beams fell from a flatbed trailer and killed a person who was standing by to help hook the trailer to a transport tractor. The victim and another worker were hired to
The murder of a teenage girl on her first solo night shift at a gas station has brought calls for improving security for night workers who must work alone.
You may be considered a veteran in your workplace, but veterans are not invincible.
Your five senses are of little use in alerting you to respiratory hazards. You usually can't see, feel or hear them, and they often have no smell or taste
Since it's your first time, you may want to checkout some of the video tutorials.
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