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Workers in health care, warehousing, transportation, manufacturing, retail and many other industry sectors have to lift and move people and materials as part of their jobs.
How This Affects You: You can be seriously injured by using common workplace tools incorrectly.
Workers all have their areas of expertise and they develop impressive skills through years of experience. But being an expert machine operator doesn’t necessarily mean one is able to perform critical maintenance or repairs on that machinery.
Head injuries are one of the most serious types of injuries that can occur at work.
Let's look first at the problem of stored materials. Materials are piled in the yard, in the truck or at various places on the jobsite.
How This Affects You: Workplace violence can happen to anyone, even you.
If you think fatal falls happen only to construction workers swinging off skyscrapers, think again. Because ladder use is so common, many workers take ladder safety for granted, and do not take the appropriate precautions.
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.
As a maintenance worker, you are responsible for a lot - providing a steady flow of water, heat and cooling as well as upkeep of every part of the workplace.
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.
Too much noise can cause permanent hearing loss. It develops gradually and without pain, but noise-induced hearing loss cannot be reversed.
It's hard to believe that noise can cause permanent damage to your hearing - but it can.
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.
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.
Back injuries are a leading cause of lost time from work. They can occur in any type of job or workplace.
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.
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
Using a ladder is a safer alternative to using a makeshift climbing device or an improvised work platform.
If you’re a standby person and think all the risks are inside the confined space, think again: over 60% of confined space deaths don’t involve people assigned to work in the confined space. These deaths involve the standby person or other would-be rescuers who enter the confined space in an emergency.
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