Do Your Fire Exits Look Like This – Spanish
Imagine que usted es un trabajador dentro de este edificio [...]
Do You Really Want Your Workers Breathing This Air – Spanish
¿Realmente quiere que sus trabajadores respiren este aire? ¿Qué tiene [...]
Beards Don’t Filter the Coronavirus GalleryBeards Don’t Filter the Coronavirus
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Beards Don’t Filter the Coronavirus
No matter what style of facial hair you sport, it's [...]
Picture This: Unsafe Work Practices
Look at the image below of a workplace injury. There's [...]
Picture This: Shrubbery Balancing Act
He has on shoes and gloves. Want to see what the cons are? Read on.
Picture This: Hand and Power Tools – Close Calls GalleryPicture This: Hand and Power Tools – Close Calls
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Picture This: Hand and Power Tools – Close Calls
Correct use, safe work practices, and PPE are a must when using tools! And here’s why…
Picture This: This’ll Just Take a Second
Never assume that “this’ll just take a second” is a safety defense. A second is all it takes to flip the switch and start the machine in motion.
Picture This: Walking the Plank – Without Fall Protection GalleryPicture This: Walking the Plank – Without Fall Protection
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Picture This: Walking the Plank – Without Fall Protection
Ingenuity at its finest or accident waiting to happen? In addition to the obvious lack of fall protection and precarious position this worker is in, the walking space on the plank is limited and awkward which makes any movement dangerous. Reach back for the hammer, lose balance, slam into the stair guardrails on the way to concrete floor below. Traumatic brain injury, broken back, multiple fractures? Maybe all three. That’s if he’s “lucky” enough to survive the fall.
Picture This: Unsafe Outriggers
What we’ve got here are a few people who aren’t concerned at all about stability or gravity. My question is how did everyone/anyone on these sites let this happen? Even if you’re not well-versed in safety regulations these situations look incredibly unsafe.
Picture This: Four Reasons Inspections are Important GalleryPicture This: Four Reasons Inspections are Important
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Picture This: Four Reasons Inspections are Important
Your safety depends on workplace inspections and the corrective actions that should be taking place. Workplace inspections are designed to uncover hazards, the obvious and not so obvious kind.
Picture This: Confined Space Whack-a-Mole
Permit-required confined space entry procedures must be part of your employers confined space entry program. Following these procedures will save your life and the lives of bystanders who may attempt rescue (unprepared and unprotected).
Picture This: Someone is About to Get Schooled with Sparks to the Eyes and Face GalleryPicture This: Someone is About to Get Schooled with Sparks to the Eyes and Face
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Picture This: Someone is About to Get Schooled with Sparks to the Eyes and Face
Using an angle grinder can be extremely dangerous for several reasons. If the wheel isn’t the right size or type, or is defective, it could break apart and become a dangerous projectile. One that can take off a finger, put out an eye, or do serious and sometimes fatal damage.
Picture This: How Would You Treat Hands Like These? GalleryPicture This: How Would You Treat Hands Like These?
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Picture This: How Would You Treat Hands Like These?
Frostbite is the freezing of the extremities (fingers, toes, nose, earlobes, etc.) caused by loss of blood flow, which can cause tissue damage and the need for amputation. Make sure you know the signs and symptoms of frostbite so you can recognize and properly treat the condition.
Picture This: First Aid Kit Fiasco GalleryPicture This: First Aid Kit Fiasco
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Picture This: First Aid Kit Fiasco
Check out what this worker found when he went to use the first aid kit in his lab after he burned himself.
Picture This: Would You Know What to Do?
A stroke is a blood clot preventing your brain from getting the blood it requires. The important thing is what you do if stroke symptoms happen; the sooner the treatment, the less chance of serious damage to the brain and less chance of permanent disability.
Picture This: Concrete Pumping Truck Dangers
How close is too close when it comes to power lines?
Picture This: Hazards of Working Alone GalleryPicture This: Hazards of Working Alone
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Picture This: Hazards of Working Alone
There are several unsafe conditions in this image that could be harmful to any worker, but especially for a lone worker. Use the Picture This to spark discussion about the hazards of working alone and the precautions and procedures your organization has in place to protect lone workers.
Picture this: You Make the Call
Use this Picture This as a tool to train and inform workers on injury prevention. Show them the image and ask them: Pretend you’re the supervisor who instructed this chap to do this work. First, think about how you would have set him up to be safe. Second, what would your reaction be if you pulled up to this scene and saw how the work was being performed. Then discuss their feedback and cover anything they might have missed.
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.
Picture This: Emergency Exit Nightmare GalleryPicture This: Emergency Exit Nightmare
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Picture This: Emergency Exit Nightmare
Let’s start with the obvious hazard – a blocked emergency exit. Blocked by conveyors, carts, trash, and cardboard boxes.
Picture This: Domestic Violence – What Would You Do? GalleryPicture This: Domestic Violence – What Would You Do?
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Picture This: Domestic Violence – What Would You Do?
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?
Picture This: Not So Great Moments in Hole Covers
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.
Picture This: Trenching Tragedy in the Making
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.
Picture This: Fancy a Cuppa Kerosene? GalleryPicture This: Fancy a Cuppa Kerosene?
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Picture This: Fancy a Cuppa Kerosene?
What do these dual personality containers and a woman in Utah drinking sweet tea and a BBQ joint have in common?
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