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Driving in Winter
Winter driving is hazardous at the best of times, but slippery roads and reduced traction can make it deadly. Prepare for winter driving before winter storms head your way.
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.
Focus On: 8 Ideas to Revitalize Your Team’s Morale and Productivity
People or profits? Results or relationships? Safety or Savings? As supervisors we often feel an enormous amount of pressure (spoken or unspoken) to make these types of difficult decisions. We also feel a great deal of conflict as well over the choices we make. Effective leaders focus on both results and relationships.
Tool: Employee MSD Symptoms Survey
Adapt and use this survey to better understand the ergonomic issues, including early stages of MSD discomfort and disorders.
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.
Tool: Ergonomic Injuries Data Summary and Corrective Actions
Once you gather ergonomic injury records and analyze the data, you must translate your findings into corrective actions. Fill out a separate version of this form for each type of ergonomically-related injury suffered by your workers. Using this form will enable you to organize your injury data, determine appropriate corrective action, and establish priorities.
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.
Be Safety-Conscious Off-the-Job too!
How safety-conscious are you when you are off-the-job? You can do a lot to increase your safety just by paying attention to your attitude and habits. You may be relaxing, but you can still relax safely!
Can You Do the Chemical Splash Dash?
If a chemical splashed onto your skin or into your eye, could you get to a safety shower or eyewash station quickly? The time to consider that question is now, not when you are faced with an emergency. You need to know where this equipment is located, the shortest route to reach it and how to use it effectively.
Ask the Expert: How do you turn a good safety program into a great safety program?
You must create a safety culture where workers feel comfortable participating. Build trust by engaging employees in all aspects by asking for concerns, opinions and solutions.
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.
Healthcare: Hazards and Risk Factors of Multidrug-Resistant Organisms GalleryHealthcare: Hazards and Risk Factors of Multidrug-Resistant Organisms
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Healthcare: Hazards and Risk Factors of Multidrug-Resistant Organisms
Multidrug-Resistant Organisms (MDRO) are bacteria and other microorganisms that can lead to an infection developing that does not respond to wide range of antibiotics. If the organism does not die off when treated with antibiotics or antimicrobials, they are said to be ‘resistant’. This means that if a person has an infection caused by one of these bacteria, then they are harder to treat and the antibiotics that do work are expensive and often cause nasty side effects. Each year in the US 23,000 people die from infections caused by MDROs.
Home Health Care – Workplace Violence – Spanish
Workplace Violence is unacceptable, regardless of the work environment. This program defines different types of workplace violence common to home health care situations and discusses ways to prevent incidents. Recognition, prevention and de-escalation are the main techniques taught.
Supermarket: Lockout/Tagout Spanish
Failure to lock out and tag machinery before working on it is a major cause of injury and death in the United States. Workers can be electrocuted or lose fingers, hands, arms, or suffer severe crushing injuries because machinery is inadvertently turned on while being serviced or maintained. Lockout/Tagout prevents these in juries. This short program is designed to explain basic lockout/tagout procedures, some terminology used in the procedures and general requirements.
Knife Safety / Cut Prevention (6 min)
Cuts are common injuries but they are preventable. Employees will learn how to safely work with knives and proper cutting techniques which will minimize risks when working with knives and other sharp items.
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.
Healthcare: Safe Moving and Handling of Patients
Overexertion injuries among healthcare workers is consistently two to five times greater than the rate of the general workforce. The single greatest cause for these injuries is manual patient handling such as manual lifting, moving and repositioning of hospitalized patients, home-health care patients, and nursing home residents.
Customer Service in Hospitality
Customer Service…Hospitality, the two go hand in hand. Customer service is everyone’s job at the hotel, not just the Front Desk. This program outlines some do’s and dont’s of customer service and teaches your associates to make a good impression, regardless of what department they work in.
Housekeeping: Slips, Trips and Falls Facts Prevention GalleryHousekeeping: Slips, Trips and Falls Facts Prevention
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Housekeeping: Slips, Trips and Falls Facts Prevention
Housekeeping/Slips, Trips & Falls A construction site can become a very messy place. But, the longer it stays that way, the more dangerous it becomes. This video outlines the connection between good housekeeping and injury prevention, especially slips, trips & falls. Common trip and fall hazards are shown and the root causes are examined for maximum impact.
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