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Safety Puzzle – Shiftwork
Work schedules outside of the normal daytime hours are called shiftwork. These clues cover some of the ways to cope with shiftwork.
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Work schedules outside of the normal daytime hours are called shiftwork. These clues cover some of the ways to cope with shiftwork.
Whether you drive on the job or just travel to and from work, traffic safety is an important issue for you. As you search for the words, let them drive you to a new understanding of traffic safety.
Bad News Basement - When we were kids, we thought there were scary things hiding in our cellars and basements.?? Now that we're grown up, we know there are.?? Which ones can you recognize?
Careless clutter puts a bad mark on your safety record. Good advice: Put trash, recyclables and scrap into the proper containers.
Today???s worker is protected by well-engineered equipment and high tech safeguards. But basic safety awareness and work practices are still important.
Serving safely is important in the hospitality industry. Look for words about hazards in hotels, resorts and restaurants.
Lethal Lodgings - Like everything else at this upper-class establishment, the safety hazards are the best available. Whether you want to be electrocuted, drowned or simply run over, the helpful staff and guests will ensure satisfaction.
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Shift-Work Safety Checklist Any supervisor who works in a multiple-shift [...]

A worker was inside a pressure trailer tanker applying a coat of anti-corrosive paint. He was using a safety lamp with a 500-watt quartz beam. A folded coat hanger was wrapped around the light and hooked to the manhole flange.
At the age of 51 a sheet metal worker died of lung cancer. His case was typical of asbestos exposure. He had been exposed during his working career when removing and installing duct work in
A teacher working alone on top of a mountain during the summer as a forest fire spotter, was killed when he was hit by a falling tree he had cut down. He was found when
A worker was killed when he fell down a large uncovered shaft in a shopping mall tower under construction. He was a mechanical equipment maintenance person who worked for a large city shopping mall, and
A city engineer collapsed in a manhole while attempting to retrieve a flow meter. The victim, an assistant engineer and a student intern had gone to a landfill to replace a battery of a flow
An electrician working for a utility company died of electrocution when an aluminum pole he was touching struck a 12,000 volt primary power line. Aluminum and other metals easily conduct electricity. The aluminum pole was
A 17-year-old assistant pool manager was electrocuted when she contacted an ungrounded electric motor. The victim, an employee of a city, was told to add soda ash to the swimming pool water to maintain the
A knot came undone in a fall arrest system, causing a window washer to fall six stories to the ground. He died of his injuries three days later. His boss had offered him a safer
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
Two employees were painting the outside of a three-story building. They were standing on a two-point suspension scaffold. The outriggers for the scaffold were inadequately counterweighted with three five-gallon (18.93-liter) buckets of sand. They were
A customer at a hardware store was trying to back his pick-up truck to a stairway that led to an oxy-acetylene cylinder storage shed. He was maneuvering past a parked transport van when his pick-up

A worker received an electric shock when he touched a boom on a lifting device. The ground wire had become detached. It was a hot day, so his skin was sweaty and moist, making it

AThree experienced welders were killed recently in separate incidents while using torches to work on containers they believed were empty. In the first, a mechanic supervisor was using a torch to cut a 55-gallon metal
A worker was running a machine called a slitter as part of a paper cup manufacturing operation. The press-like machine had heavy rollers. It was 2:30 a.m. . . . the worker was putting in
A farmer died when a corn planter collapsed on him as he tried to change a tire. He had been moving the planter to another field when he noticed one of the road tires was