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Operating a Forklift Requires Training
Forklift safety is an essential part of warehouse and housekeeping safety. A forklift incident can easily injure its driver, as well as workers who share floor space with forklifts.
Just Plumb Dangerous
Plumbers are treated most often for eye injuries, but the job has many other dangers, including: explosive solvent vapors from glues, joint compounds and primers biohazards from human waste corrosive chemicals asbestos used for insulation
Stay Safe Around Gas Cylinders
These cylinders have numerous applications, from breathing and welding to sample testing. The gases commonly found in them include oxygen, nitrogen, acetylene, chlorine and liquid propane (LPG). Many cylinders contain high pressure and will hurtle
Keep Aluminum Ladders Away From Electricity
Aluminum ladders are lightweight and easy to use. But aluminum ladders have one major drawback-they conduct electricity more readily than ladders made of other materials such as wood or fiberglass.
Air Under Pressure is Hazardous
Tools using compressed air can be worth their weight in gold. Handled properly, they save a lot of sweating, grunting and possibly swearing.
Nail Safety With Tool Belts
Tool belts are the next best thing to sliced bread, but they can turn a normally productive day into misery if you're careless.
Avoid Electrical Hazards GalleryAvoid Electrical Hazards
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Avoid Electrical Hazards
Your workplace probably has countless electrical tools and devices capable of delivering a fatal electrical shock.
Facilities Maintenance Safety
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.
Driving in the Dark GalleryDriving in the Dark
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Driving in the Dark
Most motor vehicle fatalities happen after dark, even though we drive less at night than in the daytime.
Good Housekeeping is the Order of the Day – Spanish
Un trabajador de producción se resbala en una mancha de aceite, se cae y se quiebra la cadera.
Back Care Basics GalleryBack Care Basics
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Back Care Basics
A back injury can begin a lifetime of pain, inability to work or play, reduced income and unhappy dealings with medical agencies.
Learn to Recognize a Confined Space Hazard GalleryLearn to Recognize a Confined Space Hazard
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Learn to Recognize a Confined Space Hazard
Is there a manhole to a sewage system near your workplace, or an underground vault for an electrical system? Any boiler, tunnel, well, silo, shaft or poorly ventilated crawl space can be a potentially dangerous confined space.
Welding Can Hurt More Than Eyes
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.
How to Keep Your Cool When Working in Hot Weather GalleryHow to Keep Your Cool When Working in Hot Weather
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How to Keep Your Cool When Working in Hot Weather
Your body has a marvelous ability to regulate its internal temperature through sweating and the cooling effect caused by the evaporation of sweat. But there are a number of factors that can interfere with this process and cause your body temperature to spike, resulting in heat illness.
Keep a Clean Machine Shop
A poorly maintained work environment in a machine shop conceals all kinds of serious hazards. This may result in safety incidents ranging from trips and falls to chemical exposures, electrical hazards, and even explosions.
The Environment and Your Health and Safety
Every day we hear about environmental concerns including the diminishing ozone layer, overflowing landfills, pollution ... the list is endless. The problems seem so immense, what can one person do? The short answer is, plenty!
Identifying Confined Space Hazards
Is there a manhole to a sewage system near your workplace, or an underground vault for an electrical system? Any boiler, tunnel, well, silo, shaft or poorly ventilated crawl space can be a potentially dangerous confined space.
Get the Upper Hand on Cuts
Hand and finger injuries can range from a minor inconvenience to a life-altering event. Read this Safety talk article and learn about 10 ways to protect yourself against cuts and lacerations - one for each finger.
Keep a Lookout for Eye Injuries GalleryKeep a Lookout for Eye Injuries
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Keep a Lookout for Eye Injuries
Every day thousands of workers are exposed to sight altering and life altering eye injuries. Of those workers exposed, over 2,000 end up needing medical treatment each day because of a job-related eye injury.
Take the Bite and the Sting out of Working Outdoors
Working outside puts workers at risk for countless hazards.
Suspension Trauma
Suspension trauma can occur to anyone who is forced to remain upright, as when you are in a body harness for a long time. The blood in your body pools in your legs and your heart cannot exert enough force to pump the blood back up. Eventually you faint. If you fall over, the blood can flow back to your heart; if not, there may be severe consequences.
Are You Getting Bad Vibes from Your Tools? GalleryAre You Getting Bad Vibes from Your Tools?
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Are You Getting Bad Vibes from Your Tools?
Safety Talk WHAT'S AT STAKE Millions of workers in North [...]
Manage Your Stress to Protect Your Health
If you?re alive, you have stress. Stress is what motivates us to do the things we need to do to survive. In small doses, it can be very powerful. The problem is that repeated exposure to situations that cause our bodies to produce stress hormones may have negative effects on our mental and physical health.
Driven to Distraction – The Dangers of Distracted Driving GalleryDriven to Distraction – The Dangers of Distracted Driving
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Driven to Distraction – The Dangers of Distracted Driving
Distracted driving is a factor in approximately four million crashes in North America each year. Read this Safety Talk and learn what the Canadian and American Automobile Associations (CAA and AAA) have identified as the most deadly driving distractions.
Comedy Isn’t Always Funny
There's one at every job site - the practical joker. He thinks he's pretty funny, but he's playing around with your safety. Horseplay on the job is dangerous. Work situations are risky enough already without
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