Warehouse Supervisor Crushed by Pallet Stacking Machine
A 40-year-old experienced warehouse supervisor died when he was struck by a pallet stacking machine and crushed against a storage rack support.
17-year-old Warehouse Worker Crushed by Forklift
17-year-old warehouse worker was fatally injured when the sit-down type forklift he was tipped over on its side and crushed him. The victim was employed under a work-based learning program and had been working for three months when the incident occurred.
Picture This: Lift with…Care? GalleryPicture This: Lift with…Care?
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Picture This: Lift with…Care?
Manually moving materials is one of the quickest and the most prevalent way to injure your back. Back injuries are painful for the worker and costly for the employer. To reduce back injuries at work, it is important to find and avoid risk factors that increase the chance of injury.
Picture This: Racking and Stacking GalleryPicture This: Racking and Stacking
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Picture This: Racking and Stacking
Warehouse racks and material stacks are nothing to take lightly. A damaged rack can lead to hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost and damaged inventory. Then there are the injuries and fatalities caused if the racks and materials fall. Your co-workers, delivery drivers, and even customers can be injured and killed if a rack or material falls.
By the Numbers: Key Statistics for Warehouses
There are over 10,000 warehouses in the United States and Canada, employing over 200,000 workers, and countless ways to be injured or killed.
Forklift Loading Safety Tool
Loading and unloading of forklifts and other trucks are subject to specific safety requirements that are designed to ensure stability of loads and prevent harm to operators and others nearby. This form helps prevent these related injuries and incidents from happening, along with consequential safety violations and citations
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.
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.
Tool: Employee MSD Symptoms Survey
Adapt and use this survey to better understand the ergonomic issues, including early stages of MSD discomfort and disorders.
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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.
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.
Tool: Supervisor’s Guide – Responding to Domestic Violence in the Workplace GalleryTool: Supervisor’s Guide – Responding to Domestic Violence in the Workplace
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Tool: Supervisor’s Guide – Responding to Domestic Violence in the Workplace
Domestic violence often crosses over into the workplace and many domestic violence victims are in danger of being attacked, harassed, or stalked while at work. Would you know what to do if an employee came to you about violence they are experiencing at home? Does your organization have a plan? An organization’s response to and support of victims can help to keep the workplace safe and secure for everyone.
Workplan: Workplace Domestic Violence Prevention GalleryWorkplan: Workplace Domestic Violence Prevention
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Workplan: Workplace Domestic Violence Prevention
A study done by the Society for Human Resource Management, found 65% of companies don’t have a formal workplace domestic violence plan in place even though 16% of organizations have had a domestic violence incident in the past five years.
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Domestic Violence in the Workplace
Protecting employees from harm is the foundation of every safety program and piece of safety legislation. Protecting employees from workplace violence must be part of your safety program. Further still, having a plan and program in place to help employees experiencing domestic violence should be, and in many cases must be, part of your safety program.
Four Categories of Workplace Violence and Prevention Strategies GalleryFour Categories of Workplace Violence and Prevention Strategies
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Four Categories of Workplace Violence and Prevention Strategies
There are four generally agreed upon categories of workplace violence. Once you know what the categories of violence are you and your employer can practice ways to protect you, co-workers, and the public from ha
Emergency Preparedness – Do You Know What to Do? GalleryEmergency Preparedness – Do You Know What to Do?
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Emergency Preparedness – Do You Know What to Do?
Unexpected emergencies occur every day in many facilities, including laboratories, offices, and residential buildings. It might be a fire, flood, earthquake, shooting, tornado, or hazardous chemical spill. If you don’t know what to do during an emergency the odds increase that you or others around you will be injured or killed.
Train the Trainer: Emergency Preparedness GalleryTrain the Trainer: Emergency Preparedness
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Train the Trainer: Emergency Preparedness
We are all vulnerable to disasters–whether they’re the work of Mother Nature in the form of earthquake, tsunami, hurricane, tornado or flood or deliberate acts of mankind in the form of arson, bombing or other act of terrorism. Surviving such disasters often hinges on being prepared.
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17-Year-Old Laborer Works His Last Day
Two workers entered an unprotected trench (11 feet deep x 8 feet wide) to set new sections of pipe. Only one would survive.
By the Numbers: 12 Tips for Safe Trenching and Excavation
One cubic yard of soil can weigh as much as a car and the pressure on the chest can make it impossible for a worker to breathe, even if his or her head is above the level of the collapsed soil. Often, it’s impossible to rescue a trench collapse victim quickly enough to prevent death.
Crane Safety – Safety Talk
Few experiences may be as frightening as when a crane becomes unbalanced while a load is being lifted or when the crane collapses under the weight of an excessive load. An unbalanced load or crane collapse can cause death to the operator, other construction workers, can cause damage to property or equipment.
Train the Trainer – PPE: Respirator Fit Testing
Understanding what respirators must be fit tested and the different fit testing methods is something supervisors and respirator wearers should be familiar with.
7 Things to Know About Respirator Use
Respirators are a must for work in environments with low oxygen levels or harmful debris, fumes, gases, or vapors. Share these seven tips with your workers.
Beat the Heat! Top 5 Summer Hazards GalleryBeat the Heat! Top 5 Summer Hazards
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Beat the Heat! Top 5 Summer Hazards
Beat the Heat! TOP 5 SUMMER HAZARDS When summertime rolls [...]
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Fall Hazards and Falls from Heights
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