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10 Steps to Handle Small Gasoline Spills
You're steam cleaning the shop floor when you accidentally knock over a 5-gallon can of gasoline near the welding booth. Do you know what to do?
Leave Horsing Around to the Jockeys
If you want to horse around, join the equestrian team or the jockey club, but don't take part in horseplay at work.
Protect the Environment
There is a direct link between environmental protection and your personal safety.
Every Breath You Take
To stay alive and healthy, you need air which is clean, free of toxic gases and other contaminants, and contains the right amount of oxygen.
Hurricane Safety
Hurricanes can be devastating, affecting the safety and well-being of individuals and families. Hurricanes destroy homes and businesses, cost lives, separate families and cause financial instability.
Protect Your Head From Injuries
It is of the utmost importance to protect yourself from head injuries. We all have heard of people who have received head injuries and how their lives have been tragically changed. If you have worn
Stinging Insects
For outside workers, stinging insects are a summertime job hazard. Stings are usually just an unpleasant annoyance, but occasionally they can cause serious illness and death.
Lockout/Tagout – Even for Short Jobs
It can be tempting to skip a lockout procedure just to make a quick adjustment on a machine. This kind of thinking is a mistake. In fact, it can be a fatal mistake. Many workers have been killed when they left a machine running or skipped the lockout just to do a quick clean-up or adjustment.
Beware of Lulls in Your Alertness Levels
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.
Don’t Let Wind Hazards Blow You Away
A sudden gust of wind can be annoying to most people as it blows dirt into their faces or sends hats flying. But if you work outdoors, the wind can damage much more than your previously cheerful mood.
Get a Handle on Handcart Safety
It’s a rare workplace that doesn’t have some sort of handcart for moving stock and equipment. From wheelbarrows and furniture carts to dollies and pallet jacks, handcarts help workers perform jobs better and faster, and they also help to prevent back injuries caused by lifting heavy items.
Confined Space Standby Person: Racing To The Rescue Is Death For You GalleryConfined Space Standby Person: Racing To The Rescue Is Death For You
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Confined Space Standby Person: Racing To The Rescue Is Death For You
If you’re a standby person and think all the risks are inside the confined space, think again: over 60% of confined space deaths don’t involve people assigned to work in the confined space. These deaths involve the standby person or other would-be rescuers who enter the confined space in an emergency.
Working in a Winter Wonderland
In this Safety Talk, we’ll learn about three conditions caused by working in the cold, how to prevent them, and precautions you can take to stay safe while working in a winter wonderland.
Did you Get the Memo on Office Hazards?
Your office can be a safe and comfortable place to work. Do your part and put into practice the tips you just learned to prevent common office hazards.
Protecting Against Grain Engulfment
Twenty seconds — that’s all it takes for a grown man to become engulfed by grain in a storage bin or trailer used to haul grain.
Ladder Safety, Rung By Rung
Anyone who uses the wrong ladder for a job or uses it inappropriately is courting trouble. Don?t become a statistic. Remember these ladder safety tips: Select the correct ladder. Why waver on the top rung
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Belt Yourself for Safety
You?ve heard it before and you?ll hear it again because it?s a fact - seatbelts save lives. A high percentage of all work-related fatalities each year are caused by motor vehicle crashes. Many of these deaths could have been avoided if the drivers and passengers in these vehicles had been belted in.
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Tornado Safety Basics – Seasonal Safety
The tornado season in North America begins in April, peaks in June and July, and ends in September. But really the storms can occur at any time, with approximately 1,000 tornadoes being reported in the United States and 80 in Canada each year.
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Don’t Experiment With Safety in a Laboratory
Laboratories harbor fire and explosion hazards, and radiation hazards. There may be high-powered equipment which could cause cuts, entanglement or electrocution. There also could be biohazardous materials which can cause fatal diseases.
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Don’t Let the Welding Fume Plume Make You Sick
Welding poses a unique combination of both safety and health risks to more than 500,000 workers in a wide variety of industries.
Yes, it Can Happen Here
If you have never experienced a serious emergency in your workplace, you might find it hard to imagine such a thing could happen. However, every day in job settings just like yours, something goes seriously wrong.
Keep it Clean
Whether you are a machinist, a driver or a computer jockey, workplace housekeeping is part of your job.
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Prevent Eye Injuries
Eyes are one of the most vulnerable parts of the body. They are susceptible to all kinds of injuries in the workplace if they are not properly protected.
The Dangerous Mile
It is important to be aware of the particular hazards of any stretch of road. However, the most critical mile is always the mile right in front of you. That is the mile which needs
Layer on Your Cold Weather Clothing
Working outdoors in cold weather is just one of the reasons people in the oil and gas industry have to be tough.
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