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.
Let’s start with the obvious hazard – a blocked emergency exit. Blocked by conveyors, carts, trash, and cardboard boxes.
How would you respond if one of your employees came to work with bruises or other injuries? Does your organization have a policy and process in place for dealing with suspected and confirmed cases of domestic abuse?
There are some obvious hazards in this picture, yet it’s still a good tool for training and learning. Share this image with your crew and see how many hazards they spot. Then discuss why they are hazardous, how these hazards can be corrected, and what they would do if they were asked to work in this excavation.
There are some obvious hazards in this picture, yet it’s still a good tool for training and learning. Share this image with your crew and see how many hazards they spot. Then discuss why they are hazardous, how these hazards can be corrected, and what they would do if they were asked to work in this excavation.
What do these dual personality containers and a woman in Utah drinking sweet tea and a BBQ joint have in common?
How Many Hazards Can You Pick Out?
You probably already know that you should never put yourself under a suspended load. Never. It’s not safe. There are simply too many things that could go wrong.
Rotating parts, moving belts, points of operation, and other similar machine hazards must be guarded to protect workers from injury, amputation, and death.
In 2015, the photo of a woman wearing a protective [...]
It’s not clear from the picture how this gentleman arrived [...]
Climbing a ladder requires concentration on one's placement of hands and feet, which means this worker may be oblivious to a sharp piece of metal protruding into the area just above his body.
Whatever part of this safety footwear which was considered to be “safe” by the wearer is something that only he would know.
It's Fire Prevention Month--a good time to point to hazards at work and around the house that need to be addressed before a fire occurs. This photograph shows a power bar that has overheated and could easily have caused a fire. Worse yet, it was still in use, under a bed.
Some confusing wording on a safety message probably raised a few eyebrows.
This dramatic photograph shows what can happen when a garbage truck driver forgets to lower a raised bin before driving away. The driver survived, but not without injuries.
Signs that point the way to safety can be lifesavers during emergencies, but unfortunately, not all signs provide valuable information, as this photo illustrates.
Balancing one-handed on a railing several feet above the ground without any form of fall protection could be this maintenance worker's downfall.
We wonder if these movers arrived at their destination without a police intervention.
This ladder wasn't up to the task, so three workers extended its reach by lifting it into the air, with a fourth worker hanging on to it! This photograph illustrates one of the many unsafe ways of using a ladder.
Picture This! Vertical Vertigo Holding an extended extension ladder upright [...]
This photograph shows workers in Pakistan, including children, making scalpels and scissors without personal protective equipment or machine guarding. They could easily suffer eye injuries or machine entanglement injuries.
This photograph shows an extreme case of vehicle overloading on a highway. A gust of wind, an abrupt driving maneuver or failure of a component securing this load could have fatal consequences.
Scaffolding is quite sturdy, but it's no match for Mother Nature when the wind kicks up. Luckily, no injuries occurred when strong wind gusts toppled scaffolding at a construction site in Edmonton, AB, Canada.
Want to show your employees an example of unsafe work practices? This construction worker is a frightening example of being a step away from a fatal fall.
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