Take the Bite and the Sting out of Working Outdoors
Working outside puts workers at risk for countless hazards.
Suspension Trauma
Suspension trauma can occur to anyone who is forced to remain upright, as when you are in a body harness for a long time. The blood in your body pools in your legs and your heart cannot exert enough force to pump the blood back up. Eventually you faint. If you fall over, the blood can flow back to your heart; if not, there may be severe consequences.
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Take Care of Your Protective Wear
It?s important to select and wear the correct PPE. It?s equally important that you inspect and care for the equipment properly, so that it will protect you when you need it!
Carbon Monoxide is Among Winter’s Deadliest Hazards
Carbon monoxide, also known as CO, is a deadly gas. It’s colorless, odorless and tasteless, making it impossible to detect by human senses. When CO is breathed in, it quickly replaces the oxygen in the bloodstream. Various stages of illness can easily lead up to unconsciousness and death.
Near Misses – Danger that is Too Close for Comfort
Don’t give danger a second chance to get too close for comfort. Report all near misses immediately so they can be investigated and hazards can be corrected.
Unsafe Practices Cause Battery Blowups
There are some hazards associated with batteries, however. The chemical reactions required to generate electricity involve toxic and explosive substances, harmful to humans and the environment. Large batteries can deliver fatal electrical shock. Consider the
Headlights To See And Be Seen
Your headlights are especially important for safe travel during the winter. In addition to the long hours of darkness, weather conditions such as fog, snow, sleet and rain reduce the ability to see and to
Healthy Diet Can Cut Risks
A safe, healthy workplace is also about food. A balanced, nutritious diet can boost energy and combat fatigue.
Hot Safety Tips for Welding, Cutting and Grinding GalleryHot Safety Tips for Welding, Cutting and Grinding
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Hot Safety Tips for Welding, Cutting and Grinding
When you weld, cut or grind, the potential for accidents is significant. Eyes and skin can be burned, hearing can be damaged and an electric shock can kill you.
Three-Point Rule Will Make You Safer GalleryThree-Point Rule Will Make You Safer
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Three-Point Rule Will Make You Safer
Whether workers climb a ladder or the steps to a large vehicle, failing to heed the three-point rule has resulted in many workplace injuries and deaths.
Compressed Air is Dangerous
You're struggling to loosen over-tightened lug nuts while fixing a flat tire on a hot, dusty highway.
Hazard Communication (HazCom)
The chemicals you use at work can be hazardous to your health and safety.
Sensitive to Scents
In a world filled with scented soap, fragrant shampoo and sweet-smelling perfume, staying upwind can be a constant challenge. For anyone sensitive to scents, the workplace can be downright hazardous to your health.
Forklift Safety Involves Everyone!
Forklifts are a common sight in most plant warehouses, or, anyone who shops at a warehouse store or a building supply center also risks an encounter with one. Unsuspecting workers have been run over, innocent
Your Hardhat Protects Your Head
There are some standard excuses for not wearing a hardhat - it is too heavy, too hot, too cold or too bulky or even too ugly. But all of these excuses sound very flimsy when you consider...
Eight Ways to Avoid Catching and Spreading the Flu
Every year, millions of workers are infected with a contagious respiratory illness: influenza, commonly known as the flu. Many workers who are sick with the flu refuse to let the illness prevent them from working, thinking they can “tough it out.” So they go to work with a reduced ability to work safely and productively, and they jeopardize the health of their co-workers.
10 Basic Safety Rules Gallery10 Basic Safety Rules
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10 Basic Safety Rules
Workplace safety can be a complex issue, but learning and adhering to a few safety basics can go a long way toward keeping employees safe on the job. Many workplace injuries and fatalities are directly related to either not knowing how to do something and attempting it anyway or committing unsafe acts through inattention or for other reasons.
Keep a Clean Machine Shop
A poorly maintained work environment in a machine shop conceals all kinds of serious hazards. This may result in safety incidents ranging from trips and falls to chemical exposures, electrical hazards, and even explosions.
Marijuana and Workplace Safety
Wherever you reside in North America, and whatever the legal stance in your region, one can’t deny that, every day, marijuana use is becoming a more socially acceptable practice as the legality of marijuana usage continues to spread.
Lockout/Tagout/Tryout Off-the-Job
The practice of using a lock and tag to isolate power from a piece of manufacturing equipment is not uncommon at work, but you may not realize that more injuries from failure of locking out happen at home and they can be prevented.
Plug into PPE for Electrical Work
On average more than 150 workers in North America are killed every year from electric shock, burns, and other effects caused by dangerous exposure to electricity. Many of these deaths could have been prevented by wearing the right personal protective equipment (PPE).
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Keep your Guard Up around Machines
Exposure to unguarded or improperly guarded machines causes over 1000 deaths and 20,000 serious cuts, crushing injuries, scalpings and amputations every year
Staying Safe on Scaffolds
Did you know 90% of all falls involving scaffolds happen while workers are performing routine jobs and the average height of those falls are just 12 to 15 feet?
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Take a Safe Break
Break time is your chance to break away from the routine and relax before heading back to work. But you can?t take a break from safety.
Avoid Chemical Exposure
If you work with any amount of chemicals,? or work in an environment where chemicals are used, handled, stored,? transported or disposed of, you must understand the hazards and how to protect? yourself.
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