Safety Puzzle – Ergonomics
A basic understanding of ergonomics can help you work more comfortably and safely. Do you understand these ergonomics terms?

A basic understanding of ergonomics can help you work more comfortably and safely. Do you understand these ergonomics terms?

Life itself is stressful, so it makes sense work causes us stress from time to time. If you can’t prevent stress, you can at least learn to manage it in a healthy manner. That’s something to consider while you search for these words.

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.

A basic understanding of electrical hazards is a basic survival skill in today???s world. Do you understand the meaning of the terms in this word search?

Fire safety is an important survival skill at work and at home. Let???s see if you have the fire knowledge and skill to complete this puzzle.

Heat illness ranges from the uncomfortable heat rash to the potentially fatal heat stroke. Keep cool, drink water often???. and try this word search.

The following checklist on the uses of color coding and [...]

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

Three workers, one licensed electrician and two apprentices, were rewiring a residential basement. They were using a 300 watt lightbulb, drawing power from a temporary connection to power wires on an outside pole. The electrician

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.

At 21, Catrina Faye Coffman had everything to look forward to.

Being experienced in your work does not provide immunity from injuries. Nearly a quarter of acute injuries happen to experienced workers - as a result of human errors.

Just as you use a checklist to inspect equipment, you [...]

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 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

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.

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.
Sixteen-year-old Shona* didn't even have time to react to the robber's demand for money before the bullet from his gun shattered her skull.

A teenaged retail hardware sales associate was killed when he fell from a fiberglass extension ladder as he tried to change a light bulb. He died of a skull fracture when he landed headfirst on

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

A 23-year-old mill worker received a compound fracture to his foot when he tried to clear a conveyor jam.

You may be considered a veteran in your workplace, but veterans are not invincible.

A crew leadman and a foreman were fatally burned when their oxygen-saturated clothing caught fire.
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