Getting There Safety
WHAT’S AT STAKE? Life can be fraught with danger. How [...]

WHAT’S AT STAKE? Life can be fraught with danger. How [...]

WHAT’S AT STAKE? When the heat is on, it may [...]

INCIDENT After one 14-hour shift, being “worked to death” took [...]

INCIDENT Air Force Reserve Command’s top three safety emphasis items [...]

QUESTION What are some problems of standing in the job? [...]

What Can You Do to Prevent Fatigue Issues with Shiftwork? [...]

Workers suffering from fatigue—physical and mental—are not only less productive [...]

Key Takeaways: - Observing work-related stress and identifying the factors [...]

¿QUE ESTÁ EN RIESGO? La fatiga es el estado de [...]

Course Description You’re an accident waiting to happen if you [...]
This video addresses common causes of housekeeper strains and injuries. Ergonomic principles and postures are taught as a way to increase comfort and increase safety. Early recognition of symptoms is taught as the key to preventing injuries. Proper postures while making beds, vacuuming, cleaning the bathroom and others are presented in an easy to understand way.
With hectic schedules, the electric glowing light of our phones and tablets, the stress and anxiety of life, and a host of other factors contribute to many of us being sleep-deprived. Searching for that next cup of coffee, energy drink, or other ways to stay awake. We likely don’t spend as much time thinking about prepping for a blissful night’s sleep as we do searching for the next caffeine fix. Here are some tips to help you sleep better.
A safe, healthy workplace is also about food. A balanced, nutritious diet can boost energy and combat fatigue.

Employees often work shifts that consist of many more consecutive hours or days than the average worker in this country. Additionally, people working the night shift are often faced with hazardous work that is deliberately
Think back to the last time you came to work after a night spent tossing and turning – or with no sleep at all. Now imagine working that way day in and day out.
If there are certain times of day when you are fighting the urge to sleep, you aren’t imagining things. Any night shift worker will tell you that the urge to sleep is strong between 2 a.m. and 6 a.m. What you might not know is that another lull occurs in the early-to-mid afternoon.
Fatigue is difficult to prevent when your job takes you on the road a lot. It?s hard to say ?no? to a trip or to stop for sleep when there?s a delivery to make or a customer to see.
Fatigue is the state of feeling very tired, weary or sleepy. It results from not getting enough sleep, shiftwork, prolonged mental or physical work, or extended periods of stress or anxiety. Fatigue impacts work performance and safety and can cause health problems. In the most extreme cases, fatigue has been linked to environmental disasters, plane and train crashes, nuclear disasters and the explosion of the Challenger space shuttle.

If your workers work outdoors or in unheated indoor spaces, [...]

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Jan-08

Shift-Work Safety Checklist Any supervisor who works in a multiple-shift [...]

It’s important to warn your workers about the different heat-related [...]
Many questions still remain about the late August crash of a passenger jet on takeoff from Lexington, KY, but some of the early answers aren't encouraging.