Hydraulic Hazards
The power of fluids is amazing. Hydraulic power is a form of stored energy that, when under control, does good work. When released unexpectedly, hydraulic power can damage you for life or even kill you.
Forklift Loading Safety Tool
Loading and unloading of forklifts and other trucks are subject to specific safety requirements that are designed to ensure stability of loads and prevent harm to operators and others nearby. This form helps prevent these related injuries and incidents from happening, along with consequential safety violations and citations
Fatigue at Work Can Kill You GalleryFatigue at Work Can Kill You
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Fatigue at Work Can Kill You
You’re an accident waiting to happen if you are not alert at work. This applies to most high-risk jobs, trucking and transport jobs, repetitive jobs, such as sorting logs in a lumber mill, and a host of other jobs – regardless of the inherent risk level.
Forklift Travel Safety Tool
Once they’re on the move, forklifts and other powered industrial trucks become dangerous and subject to specific travel safety rules. This form helps prevent these related injuries and incidents from happening, along with consequential safety violations and citations.
Caught and Crushed by Pinch Points GalleryCaught and Crushed by Pinch Points
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Caught and Crushed by Pinch Points
Caught and between. These two mild words describe a type of injury which is anything but mild. Instead, they refer to being caught between two moving objects or a moving object and a stationary object. The result is compression and crushing injuries which can be fatal. The places where these incidents occur are called "pinch points."
Chocking and Blocking Safety
Chocking is the act of using a wedge to immobilize the wheels of a vehicle or equipment to keep it from accidentally moving. Chocking the wheels of a vehicle, such as a truck or trailer, physically stops the movement of wheels to prevent runaways that can injure workers and destroy property.
Distractions Derail Safety GalleryDistractions Derail Safety
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Distractions Derail Safety
The ever-increasing use of smartphones finds most of with our heads down staring into the glow of text messages, games, tweets, twitters, selfies and more. One of the downsides to this obsession is that people mistakenly think they can perform their jobs safely while they use these devices.
Forklift Safety Checklists
Like any other piece of mechanical equipment, forklifts pose dangers not just to operators but to others in the vicinity. This tool will significantly help prevent these incidents as well as consequential safety violations and citations. HOW TO USE THE TOOL Here are two checklists you can adapt and use to ensure forklifts/powered industrial trucks meet equipment and maintenance standards.
Industrial Ergonomics Hazards Assessment Checklist GalleryIndustrial Ergonomics Hazards Assessment Checklist
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Industrial Ergonomics Hazards Assessment Checklist
Adapt and use this Hazards Assessment to determine areas of potential and existing ergonomic and materials handling concerns.
Ergonomic Injury Record Review GalleryErgonomic Injury Record Review
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Ergonomic Injury Record Review
To root out ergonomic injuries you must be proactive. The first step is to do a record review and create a “snapshot” of worker injuries, so you can analyze causes and identify trends. Here’s a form you can adapt and use at your workplace to perform an effective records review.
Office Safety
Most offices have few hazardous chemicals and no heavy or moving machinery. If the worst that can happen is a paper cut, why do we need to talk about safety training? Because a paper cut isn’t the worst that can happen. Office employees still need to know what to do in case of an emergency, and accidents are surprisingly common. Also, people who sit down and use computers most of the day need to watch out for ergonomic issues.
Falls Through Floor and Wall opening GalleryFalls Through Floor and Wall opening
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Falls Through Floor and Wall opening
It takes a split-second of inattention, a slight change in working conditions, a forgetful co-worker, or a lax safety program for you to fall through an opening.
By the Numbers: 10 Tips for Emergency Response Plans GalleryBy the Numbers: 10 Tips for Emergency Response Plans
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By the Numbers: 10 Tips for Emergency Response Plans
Being prepared for an emergency is part of your employers and your responsibility. For help developing your emergency response planning, Ready.gov offers the following guidance.
Picture This: Emergency Exit Nightmare GalleryPicture This: Emergency Exit Nightmare
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Picture This: Emergency Exit Nightmare
Let’s start with the obvious hazard – a blocked emergency exit. Blocked by conveyors, carts, trash, and cardboard boxes.
Don’t Let a Trench Be your Grave Safety Talk
Excavations and trenches more than 4-5 ft/1.2-1.5 m deep (depending on your federal, state, and provincial regulations) require a protective system is in place to protect workers from cave-ins. If a protective system isn’t in place – don’t enter the excavation. Look out for your safety and the safety of your co-workers and don’t become another buried body of an excavation cave-in.
Preventing Slips, Trips and Falls for Ski Area Employees – (8 min) GalleryPreventing Slips, Trips and Falls for Ski Area Employees – (8 min)
10 minutes or less, Agriculture, Assign a Course, Construction, Duration, Education, English, Forestry, General Industry, Healthcare, Hospitality, Industry, Language, Manufacturing, Maritime, Mining, Oil and Gas, Retail, Slips, Trips and Falls, Teach, Topic, Transportation, Type, Utilities, Video
Preventing Slips, Trips and Falls for Ski Area Employees – (8 min)
Ski Areas???snow ???ice???water???slippery surfaces???they increase the potential for a slip, trip or fall. But does this mean a slip, Trip or fall HAS to happen? Of course not. Slips, trips and Falls are preventable and that???s what this program is all about???prevention. The program examines some common slip, trip and fall accidents common to ski areas and examines the root causes of each.
Preventing Workplace Violence in a Restaurant GalleryPreventing Workplace Violence in a Restaurant
11 - 30 minutes, Assign a Course, Duration, Education, English, General Industry, Healthcare, Hospitality, Industry, Language, Retail, Teach, Topic, Transportation, Type, Utilities, Video, Workplace Violence
Preventing Workplace Violence in a Restaurant
Preventing Workplace Violence shows employees how to recognize the warning signs of possible violent behavior, as well as how to avoid or defuse potentially dangerous situations. One out of every six violent crimes occurs in the workplace. And while workplace homicides grab the headlines??? (homicide is the second leading cause of death on the job and the number one killer of women in the workplace)??? other forms of workplace violence happen much more frequently. No organization, regardless of its size or type, is immune to workplace violence. Areas covered in the course include the nature of workplace violence, underlying causes and warning signs, aggressive behavior, threats and verbal abuse, sexual harassment, physical assault and armed assailants, fostering a positive workplace environment, and more.This VOD program is one of the most effective and efficient ways to get employees the training that they need, in a classroom or individually through their desktop or tablet computer.
Road Rage and Aggressive Driving (12 min)
Road Rage & Aggressive Driving ??? In any discussion of Drivers Safety, one of the most dangerous hazards is the Human Factor???the unpredictability of all the drivers on the road???and the way that emotion can influence the way we drive. Road Rage is responsible for over half of the fatal crashes on our roadways each year.
Solid Waste: Commercial Pickup
Roll-Off trucks are specialized equipment that require specialized techniques and procedures to operate safely.
Solid Waste: Commercial Pickup – Spanish
Roll-Off trucks are specialized equipment that require specialized techniques and procedures to operate safely.
Solid Waste: Lockout Tagout – (13 min)
In most industries it is as simple as turning off the power and installing a lock to prevent the power from being turned back on. In the solid waste industry the purpose is the same, protecting employees, but the energy sources we need to control aren't usually controlled by just a circuit breaker. This program takes a detailed look about how to properly lock and block trash hauling vehicles during maintenance and clean out operations.
Solid Waste: Pre-Trip Inspection
The trucks and equipment your company operates are great pieces of equipment. They're versatile. They're powerful. And, they have to be inspected. A proper inspection protects workers and those working around them by ensuring that the equipment they are using is mechanically safe. And that's what this video is all about how???to perform a thorough, consistent and accurate pre-shift inspection.
Solid Waste: Pre-Trip Inspection – Spanish
The trucks and equipment your company operates are great pieces of equipment. They're versatile. They're powerful. And, they have to be inspected. A proper inspection protects workers and those working around them by ensuring that the equipment they are using is mechanically safe. And that's what this video is all about how???to perform a thorough, consistent and accurate pre-shift inspection.
Solid Waste: Route Safety
Identifying and eliminating hazards are part of each drivers responsibilities. The purpose of this program is to help drivers analyze hazards and report them immediately to ensure their safety, the safety of their equipment and the safety of others working the same route in the future.
Tool: Supervisor’s Guide – Responding to Domestic Violence in the Workplace GalleryTool: Supervisor’s Guide – Responding to Domestic Violence in the Workplace
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Tool: Supervisor’s Guide – Responding to Domestic Violence in the Workplace
Domestic violence often crosses over into the workplace and many domestic violence victims are in danger of being attacked, harassed, or stalked while at work. Would you know what to do if an employee came to you about violence they are experiencing at home? Does your organization have a plan? An organization’s response to and support of victims can help to keep the workplace safe and secure for everyone.
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