Don’t Let A Trench Be Your Grave
Danny Meggison was an experienced trench worker, but he made a big mistake that left his eight-year-old son without a father.
Danny Meggison was an experienced trench worker, but he made a big mistake that left his eight-year-old son without a father.

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 [...]

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.

Exposure to unguarded or improperly guarded machines causes over 1000 deaths and 20,000 serious cuts, crushing injuries, scalpings and amputations every year
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.
You’ve probably heard these expressions — maybe even used them yourself a time or two — but the fact is a human skull isn’t all that thick or all that hard when compared to some

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

Your workplace probably has countless electrical tools and devices capable of delivering a fatal electrical shock.

Gloves - of materials such as nitrile, poly vinyl chloride, natural rubber (latex) and butyl rubber

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Fatal or disabling head injuries happen when people are hit in the head with running equipment, tools falling from above, broken machine parts propelled through the air and many other moving and stationary objects.

The safety rules, policies and procedures of your workplace are there to protect you from workplace hazards and to help prevent injuries.
Fall protection includes personal fall arrest equipment, conventional equipment such as guardrails, and positioning device systems. A fall arrest system is used to halt a person's fall from a working level 10 feet (three meters)
The forklift is an efficient tool. However, sometimes things go terribly wrong.

You might be the toughest roughneck around, but a good dose of heat stress can quickly tame anyone's bravado.

Most motor vehicle fatalities happen after dark, even though we drive less at night than in the daytime.
Electrical shock is a leading cause of workplace fatalities and almost every day approximately one electrocution, 10 disabling injuries and 100 electrical shocks are reported.
If pressure vessels are improperly operated or improperly maintained, they can fail catastrophically, potentially flattening buildings and killing workers and people living in the area.
Being splashed in the face with molten metal and being splashed with water will have dramatically different results on your body.

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.

A sawmill worker suffered multiple fractures to his right arm when it became caught in an edger outfeed chain and sprocket. For unknown reasons, he had lifted the guard to check the drive mechanism.

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.
Using a ladder is a safer alternative to using a makeshift climbing device or an improvised work platform.
Welding is a routine job on many worksites. This common task has many health and safety risks that can result in serious injury, endangering more than 500,000 workers in a variety of industries. It’s not just those involved directly with welding who are at risk. Bystanders can also be affected. So it’s important for everyone to have a basic knowledge of welding hazards.