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.
Portable electric-powered tools can be indispensable. They can also be deadly. Each year, thousands of construction workers are injured using these otherwise handy tools.
If you aren't wearing the right protection your hands could be burned, frozen, cut, scraped or burned by chemicals. You could lose fingers, a thumb, or even your life. That's why you wear gloves.
Back injuries are a leading cause of lost time from work. They can occur in any type of job or workplace.
WHAT'S AT STAKE Workers in almost every work environment are [...]
The Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS) was created by the United Nations to help bring uniformity to hazardous materials labeling around the world.
If you work with any amount of chemicals,? or work in an environment where chemicals are used, handled, stored,? transported or disposed of, you must understand the hazards and how to protect? yourself.
Too much noise can cause permanent hearing loss. It develops gradually and without pain, but noise-induced hearing loss cannot be reversed.
Your workplace probably has countless electrical tools and devices capable of delivering a fatal electrical shock.
Using a portable fire extinguisher is an important safety skill.
There’s hardly a workplace that doesn’t handle or store materials.
Some jobs require workers to enter and work in tight areas known as confined spaces, which can be both uncomfortable and dangerous. Usually, a confined space will have limited access, poor ventilation and poor lighting.
Twenty seconds — that’s all it takes for a grown man to become engulfed by grain in a storage bin or trailer used to haul grain.
The tornado season in North America begins in April, peaks in June and July, and ends in September. But really the storms can occur at any time, with approximately 1,000 tornadoes being reported in the United States and 80 in Canada each year.
When you weld, cut or grind, the potential for accidents is significant. Eyes and skin can be burned, hearing can be damaged and an electric shock can kill you.
You might be the toughest roughneck around, but a good dose of heat stress can quickly tame anyone's bravado.
Gloves - of materials such as nitrile, poly vinyl chloride, natural rubber (latex) and butyl rubber
Any workplace can be too hot for safety, both outdoors and in hot, humid conditions indoors. Whenever you’re exposed to heat, you’re at risk of developing heat illness.
It’s a rare workplace that doesn’t have some sort of handcart for moving stock and equipment. From wheelbarrows and furniture carts to dollies and pallet jacks, handcarts help workers perform jobs better and faster, and they also help to prevent back injuries caused by lifting heavy items.
Struck-by and caught-between hazards account for over 1,500 workplace deaths a year and are present in almost every industry sector.
Fatigue is difficult to prevent when your job takes you on the road a lot. It?s hard to say ?no? to a trip or to stop for sleep when there?s a delivery to make or a customer to see.
They carry you through heat or cold, wet and slippery conditions. Your feet are also at risk from falling construction materials and equipment. No wonder wearing approved steel-toed boots can be required on the job.
Most motor vehicle fatalities happen after dark, even though we drive less at night than in the daytime.
Many workers use utility knives to open packaging. But one wrong move and these tools can do serious harm. In fact, nearly 40 percent of all injuries attributed to manual workshop tools in the US involve utility knives. And it’s not only utility knives that pose a risk. The straight hand knife is also a commonly used tool in many industries and the cause of many severe accidents.
Corrosive chemicals are used to break down metal and for other industrial purposes, but they can also destroy body tissue on contact. They are extremely dangerous if handled improperly.
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