Chemicals and other contaminants can be transferred from the hands to foods, drinks or cigarettes and ingested into the body, where they can cause serious damage, especially with repeated exposure over time. Along with not eating, drinking or smoking after handling chemicals, workers who bring coffee or food items into contaminated areas are also risking exposure to toxic agents.
If you work with hazardous chemicals, then you?ve been trained on safe work practices to reduce your exposure. But have you ever considered the effects these chemicals might have on your family?
Loading and unloading cargo is a routine task at many workplaces. And it?s a task that requires establishing and following safe procedures.
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The willful violation alleges failure to enforce lockout/tagout procedures to [...]
Materials handling is a type of work conducted in almost every workplace. These clues are about the safe moving, storage and handling of materials.
This puzzle???s theme is materials handling. Complete this puzzle with words related to the safe moving, handling and storage of materials.
Dog Days - This facility is a real dog, safety-wise, that is!?? This place would give any inspector paws.?? Try to identify the safety hazards that could turn around and bite someone.
Machines that press, punch and polish materials can do lethal damage to the human body. Think about that as you search for words related to manufacturing industries.
Dog Days - This facility is a real dog, safety-wise, that is! This place would give any inspector paws. Try to identify the safety hazards that could turn around and bite someone.
There are at least 8 ways for supervisors to determine [...]
A truck driver was killed when a bundle of plastic irrigation pipe he was securing slipped, striking him in the head. A forklift operator placed four bundles of pipe onto the victim's semi-trailer bed. The
A supervisor at a ship repair dry-dock was crushed to death by a large plate of steel as it was being lowered.
A forklift driver and two laborers were stacking 40-foot (12.91-meter) I-beams in preparation for a structural steel construction job. One of the laborers was placing a wooden spacer on the last I-beam when the forklift
On a winter morning, a truck left a logging camp loaded with 50 tons of logs. At the same time another worker was returning to camp in a pickup truck. The two drivers acknowledged one
Supervisors can use this checklist as a tool to identify [...]
Considering how often we use our hands and the number [...]
Properly stacked and stored materials are readily accessible and less [...]
What Are Dangerous Chemicals First, a definition: By “hazardous chemicals,” [...]
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