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.
If you want to horse around, join the equestrian team or the jockey club, but don't take part in horseplay at work.
Safety doesn't punch a time clock, so when you leave work, take your safety attitude home with you.
If traveling up or down stairs is a daily part of your job, you may be at risk of injury, especially if carrying items.
Aparte del resfriado común, la razón más frecuente para ausentarse del trabajo es el dolor de espalda.
We all encounter building projects in our workplace, on the road and in our neighborhoods. You have to be aware of the hazards or risk serious injury.
WHAT'S AT STAKE When you can’t safely reach the work [...]
One size does not fit all when it comes to work equipment.

Workers all have their areas of expertise and they develop impressive skills through years of experience. But being an expert machine operator doesn’t necessarily mean one is able to perform critical maintenance or repairs on that machinery.
A pilot crashes a plane. A truck driver dozes off and misses a curve. A machine operator accidentally sticks his hand into some rollers. What do all of these accident victims have in common? They were all affected by legal drugs, the kind you buy at your neighborhood drug store.

In this Safety Talk, we’ll look at some of the issues workers face as they age and what they can do to stay focused and accident-free.
Working in cold weather can have a chilling effect on your body. You are at risk for impaired motor function, impaired judgment and cold stress injuries and illness.
Substance abuse costs employers billions of dollars a year in accidents and injuries, lost productivity, and property and equipment damage.
If your job includes the use or handling of flammable substances, you need special training to recognize and avoid the hazards that go along with them.
A job hazard analysis (JHA), sometimes called a job safety analysis (JSA), is a thorough work plan that is the cornerstone of any safety program.
Loading and unloading cargo is a routine task at many workplaces. And it?s a task that requires establishing and following safe procedures.
Swimming and boating are staples of summer fun. The fun can quickly turn to tragedy though, when water and boating safety are thrown overboard. On average, 1,000 people die in boating-related accidents every year in North America and thousands more are injured. Additionally, more than 3,500 unintentional drownings, not related to boating, happen each year. The majority of these deaths are preventable.
If you work with chemicals, make sure you are familiar with the first aid required in case of exposure. This information is located on the chemical label and on the Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS).
“We can’t afford to spend time on making things look pretty. We’ve got production to get out,” he said. That’s true as far as it goes, but plant housekeeping involves a lot more than making

A sawmill worker suffered multiple fractures to his right arm when it became caught in an edger outfeed chain and sprocket. For unknown reasons, he had lifted the guard to check the drive mechanism.

Workers in health care, warehousing, transportation, manufacturing, retail and many other industry sectors have to lift and move people and materials as part of their jobs.
Every workplace is a little different, but one thing they all have in common is the need and desire to keep workers as safe and free from injury or illness as possible.

If you aren't wearing the right protection your hands could be burned, frozen, cut, scraped or burned by chemicals. You could lose fingers, a thumb, or even your life. That's why you wear gloves.
As a maintenance worker, you are responsible for a lot - providing a steady flow of water, heat and cooling as well as upkeep of every part of the workplace.

Most motor vehicle fatalities happen after dark, even though we drive less at night than in the daytime.