Healthcare: Preventing Injury from Needlesticks and Sharps
Close to 400,000 healthcare workers a year sustain an injury by used hypodermic needles and other sharp instruments such as a scalpel blade and suture needles.
Laboratory Equipment Safety: Biosafety Cabinets
Recently, a researcher left a lit Bunsen burner inside a BSC, closed the sash and walked away. The type of biological safety cabinet she was using recirculates about 70% of the air with 30% of the air going out of the exhaust.
Healthcare: Keeping Housekeeping Staff Safe
Housekeeping staff working in healthcare play an important role in keeping the environment safe for patients, staff, and visitors. They may not provide direct clinical care to patients, but they work around patients, and in areas where clinical care has been given.
Sexual Harassment: Defining Sexual Harassment in the Workplace GallerySexual Harassment: Defining Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
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Sexual Harassment: Defining Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
Sexual harassment is defined as any conduct, comment, gesture, or contact of a sexual nature that is likely to cause offence or humiliation to any employee; or that might, on reasonable grounds, be perceived by that employee as placing a condition of a sexual nature on employment or on any opportunity for training or promotion.
Fundamentals of First Aid – Fractures GalleryFundamentals of First Aid – Fractures
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Fundamentals of First Aid – Fractures
A fracture is the medical term for a broken bone. The break can be along the length of the bone or across the bone, so it looks as though the bone has snapped. These are generally clean breaks but sometimes the bone can fracture in several places, especially if the fracture is caused by a fall from a great height or from being crushed.
Healthcare: Keeping Healthcare Workers Free from MRSA
Staph is a very common, generally problem free, bacteria that lives in the nose or on the skin of up to 1 in 3 people. Staph only causes a problem if it gets somewhere it shouldn't, such as into a wound, or the blood. Staph can be easily treated with antibiotics but over time some bacteria have developed a resistance. These strains are commonly known as MRSA, Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and can cause a variety of problems ranging from skin infections to pneumonia.
Healthcare: Hand Hygiene
Infections are a serious problem in healthcare facilities. Many people develop an infection while using healthcare services. Such infections are known as healthcare associated infections (HAI).
Healthcare: Formaldehyde Safety
During a busy shift, an OB technician helped with many crash deliveries and operations. Consequently, surgical instruments and trays that should have been washed, piled up on the sink counter and eventually knocked over a gallon jug of 4% formaldehyde. The employee was in and out of the utility room, doing the dishes between surgeries, and noticed that her throat was sore.
Stopping Slips, Trips, and Falls GalleryStopping Slips, Trips, and Falls
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Stopping Slips, Trips, and Falls
Slip, trip, and fall injuries are one of the most common causes of workplace injuries and death. The falls from slips and trips can lead to disabling injuries, traumatic brain injuries, surgeries, and countless hours in rehab. These types of injuries are painful and costly and can put stress on your relationships, lead to depression, anxiety, and in some cases post-traumatic stress disorder, or PSTD.
Utilities: Safely Installing and Removing Overhead Power Lines
When you install or remove overhead lines, you must protect yourself and others against hazards that could expose you to shock, electrocution, falls, flying and falling objects, and burns.
Trenching and Excavation Safety
A trench is an excavation, too, if it isn’t more than 15 feet (4.5 meters) wide at the bottom. And, if you install forms or other structures in an excavation that reduce its width to less than 15 feet, measured at the bottom, the excavation is also considered a trench.
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.
Hazardous Locations Classifications for Electrical Equipment: Class/Division GalleryHazardous Locations Classifications for Electrical Equipment: Class/Division
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Hazardous Locations Classifications for Electrical Equipment: Class/Division
Hazardous Locations are defined as premises, buildings or parts thereof where fire or explosion hazards may exist due to the presence of flammable gases or vapors, flammable liquids, combustible dusts, or easily ignitable fibers.
Hazardous Locations Classifications for Electrical Equipment: Zone System GalleryHazardous Locations Classifications for Electrical Equipment: Zone System
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Hazardous Locations Classifications for Electrical Equipment: Zone System
Hazardous Locations are defined as premises, buildings or parts thereof where fire or explosion hazards may exist due to the presence of flammable gases or vapors, flammable liquids, combustible dusts, or easily ignitable fibers.
Cementing Safety for Concrete Workers: Cast-in-place Concrete
A 40-year-old worker was killed at a construction site recently in Toronto. According to police, concrete panels had fallen onto the worker as they were being unloaded, and the man became trapped.
Cementing Safety for Concrete and Masonry Workers: Precast, Lift-Slab, and Masonry Construction GalleryCementing Safety for Concrete and Masonry Workers: Precast, Lift-Slab, and Masonry Construction
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Cementing Safety for Concrete and Masonry Workers: Precast, Lift-Slab, and Masonry Construction
The potential for serious injuries and even fatalities is very high when thinking about work involved for concrete and masonry workers. Precast concrete, lift-slab operations, and masonry construction all pose different types of risk, and all have the potential for multiple employees to be hurt or killed if these risks are ignored.
Aerial Lift Safety for Utility Workers GalleryAerial Lift Safety for Utility Workers
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Aerial Lift Safety for Utility Workers
Aerial lifts are commonly used by utility workers. Aerial lifts include boom-supported aerial platforms, such as cherry pickers or bucket trucks, and elevating platforms, such as scissor lifts.
Putting Out Fires GalleryPutting Out Fires
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Putting Out Fires
Workplace fire safety is about preventing fires from starting —but also vital is dealing with a fire when it does start. If fire breaks out in your workplace, do your workers know what to do?
Fundamentals of First Aid – Choking
When someone is choking with a completely blocked airway, no oxygen can enter the lungs. The brain is extremely sensitive to a lack of oxygen and begins to die within four to six minutes. Irreversible brain death occurs in as little as 10 minutes.
Flammable and Combustible Liquids – Explained
Flammable and combustible liquids are present in most workplaces. When used and stored properly these liquids rarely present a problem. But, when that’s not the case, the results can be catastrophic.
Lead-Acid Batteries
Charging and changing the lead-acid batteries used to power forklifts present four serious, and potentially life-threatening hazards, including corrosive liquids and electrical hazards.
Safety Underground
Increasingly, utilities are installing much of their services underground.
Avoiding Struck-By Incidents GalleryAvoiding Struck-By Incidents
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Avoiding Struck-By Incidents
Struck-by incidents contributed to almost 1,000 construction worker fatalities in the last 5 years according to a new report from the Center for Construction Research and Training.
Avoiding Caught-In/Caught-Between Incidents GalleryAvoiding Caught-In/Caught-Between Incidents
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Avoiding Caught-In/Caught-Between Incidents
Caught-in and caught-between hazards account for:
Safe Respirator Use
If a respirator is required for a job you’re doing it means there is a risk of inhaling contaminants such as harmful dust or gas.
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