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Picture This! Where’s the Emergency Phone, Jack?
You can't always believe what you read, especially when a sign points the way to an emergency telephone that doesn't exist.
Picture This! The Terrible Aftermath of a Question Not Asked
Many workers, especially young workers out to make a good impression, won't speak up when they have a question, for fear of appearing naive or stupid. They need to know it's always better to ask a question--any question--than to risk injury by trying to figure out a procedure on their own.
Picture This! Girder Wrangler Tempts Fate
Heavy clothing, zero fall protection and working over water could prove to be a losing proposition for this worker.
Picture This: Not the Brightest Bulb
Look closely and you can see the top of the ladder at the bottom left of this picture.
Picture This! Don’t Slip
Just one little misstep is all it would take for this worker's day to come crashing down in a painful, even deadly way.
Picture This! A Few Bricks Short of a Secured Load
This photograph of bricks tumbling from a scaffold shows how vital it is for workers to secure tools and materials against movement when working from scaffolds or other elevated areas. Anyone working or walking below could easily have been killed by the falling materials.
Picture This! When Standing on the Top Cap of a Stepladder Just Isn’t Dangerous Enough GalleryPicture This! When Standing on the Top Cap of a Stepladder Just Isn’t Dangerous Enough
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Picture This! When Standing on the Top Cap of a Stepladder Just Isn’t Dangerous Enough
What would you tell a worker using a ladder in this way?
Picture This! Is He Washing His Hands at the Urinal? GalleryPicture This! Is He Washing His Hands at the Urinal?
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Picture This! Is He Washing His Hands at the Urinal?
Does this graphic ACTUALLY depict a man washing his hands in a urinal? What is going on?
Picture This! Human Crane Feeling the Strain GalleryPicture This! Human Crane Feeling the Strain
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Picture This! Human Crane Feeling the Strain
When people don't have the right equipment or are too lazy to go get it, they tend to improvise in ways that are anything but wise. Here's a photo of a man holding a worker upside down outside an elevated window. The strain is plainly evident on his face.
Picture This! Remember, You Can’t Fly!
This photo was snapped in Australia, so it was probably a nice day to be working outside, but this guy is more than a little light on fall protection equipment and other safety gear. One slip and he could face some heavy personal consequences.
Picture This! Emergency Exit Fail
Tragedies from the past carry important safety lessons, but unfortunately, those lessons aren't always heeded. Locked emergency exit doors continue to be a problem in the modern workplace, 102 years after 146 workers locked inside a New York clothing manufacturing plant perished in a fire.
Picture This! Icy Slip and Slide! GalleryPicture This! Icy Slip and Slide!
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Picture This! Icy Slip and Slide!
Winter weather means snow and ice, which can cause slips-and-falls.
Picture This! Watch Your Step
“Watch your step please” read this sign found outside an Illinois business. Given the condition of the steps leading up to it, that's pretty sound advice!
Picture This: Trench and Excavation Hazards
Trenches and excavations pose various safety hazards to the workers who must work in and around them.
Picture This! A Hand on the Bucket Rope is Worth Two on the Ladder
Picture This nearly always focuses on unsafe work practices, but this week we have a photograph showing workers doing the right thing. In this case, a worker is shown using a bucket and rope to hoist tools to an elevated work area. This arrangement allows workers to maintain three points of contact when ascending or descending ladders. (eLCOSH)
Picture This! Planks, But No Thanks
This skinny plank, which barely spans its supports at both ends, provides workers with a potentially exciting, yet unsafe, means of getting to and from their worksite. It could easily snap or shift, or a worker could simply lose his balance and fall from it.
Picture This! You Do the Hokey Pokey And…
Practice makes perfect, or so it is said. But workers who perfect unsafe practices and think nothing bad will ever happen to them are often sadly proven wrong.
Picture This! ‘Scaf-fold’ Could Prove to be Operative Word
This makeshift scaffold, made from ladders lashed together, screams trouble even before anyone sets foot on it.
Picture This: Cookies and Fire Extinguisher Share Aisle 1
Better hope there's not a fire or precious time could be lost trying to free this fire extinguisher from its awkward position.
Picture This: Defying the Laws of Physics and Common Sense:
Some things you have to see to believe
Picture This! This Might Be Expedient, But It Isn’t Safe
Leaving this telescopic boom on the flat deck is easier than unloading it and placing it on firm ground. But think about the all the things that could go wrong....
Picture This! Worker Survives Chainsaw Necklace Nightmare
Chainsaw kickbacks are often deadly, but a Pennsylvania tree trimmer survived in spite of having a chainsaw's chain embed itself in his neck. The horrifying incident hasn't put James Valentine, 21, off returning to that job. Here's a photograph showing an X-ray of the chain inside his body.
Picture This! Shoe Sales Clerk Should Tread More Carefully
It's unfortunate that in spite of having ready access to a ladder, many retail workers will choose to climb racking to access stock on shelves, as this photograph illustrates. Australia's WorkSafe Victoria notes that one in five injuries in the retail sector involve slips, trips or falls.
Picture This! Raise a Glass to Rising Temperatures
Hot weather, high humidity, a lack of water and insufficient rest breaks can quickly lead to life-threatening heat illness.
Picture This! Human Stepladder Puts Safety Out of Step GalleryPicture This! Human Stepladder Puts Safety Out of Step
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Picture This! Human Stepladder Puts Safety Out of Step
How many workers does it take to safely change a light bulb? Apparently more than these three guys.
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