Need a reason to be regularly conducting workplace inspections? Here are 6,098 reasons why workplace inspections are important – that’s how many Canadian and U.S. workers died in 2017 from work-related injuries or illnesses.
Cross Contamination in the Workplace
Permit required confined spaces have long been – and still are - the leading cause of multiple fatalities in the workplace.
Do you know how many workplace eye injuries could be prevented if eye protection had been worn? Read on to find out.
Types of Safety Lenses
Seven Confined Space Entry Do's and Don'ts
Don’t take chances when it comes to icy surfaces. Ice on walking and working surfaces can cause serious slip, trip, and fall hazards which can lead to disabling injuries, major concussions, and loss of life. Avoid these icy hazards by ensuring procedures are in place and enforced for the safe removal of ice on these seven surfaces.
A human heart can cease beating within 4 minutes after breathing stops. Permanent brain damage can occur within 4 to 6 minutes after breathing stops. Average ambulance response time is 8 to 12 minutes.
Did you know? FIVE lifestyle behaviors (physical inactivity, poor nutrition, smoking, alcohol use, and non-adherence to medications) and FIVE chronic medical conditions (diabetes, heart disease, lung disease, mental illness, and cancer) drive 75% of all deaths worldwide.
Share, review, and discuss these heavy equipment safety tips with your equipment operators to reduce the chances of an incident.
The most recent work-related fatality information reinforces the need for an ongoing focus on incident prevention.
Working alone can expose workers to hazards and dangers that aren’t found in other types of work settings. Prepare your workers through well-thought-out policies, communication plans, and knowledge on what to do in different situations. Share these 10 tips with workers and adjust as your situation calls for.
There are over 10,000 warehouses in the United States and Canada, employing over 200,000 workers, and countless ways to be injured or killed.
Being prepared for an emergency is part of your employers and your responsibility. For help developing your emergency response planning, Ready.gov offers the following guidance.
With hectic schedules, the electric glowing light of our phones and tablets, the stress and anxiety of life, and a host of other factors contribute to many of us being sleep-deprived. Searching for that next cup of coffee, energy drink, or other ways to stay awake. We likely don’t spend as much time thinking about prepping for a blissful night’s sleep as we do searching for the next caffeine fix. Here are some tips to help you sleep better.
One cubic yard of soil can weigh as much as a car and the pressure on the chest can make it impossible for a worker to breathe, even if his or her head is above the level of the collapsed soil. Often, it’s impossible to rescue a trench collapse victim quickly enough to prevent death.
Infographic - summer safety
Flammable and combustible liquids are responsible for workplace fires and fires at home. You may not realize it, but you probably have at least a few containers hanging out in your garage, basement, or under the kitchen sink.
Water-related deaths are a sad part of every summer. The following stats are meant to bring awareness to just how often drowning deaths and diving-related injuries occur. There is also an important link to a blog post, Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning, that I highly recommend reading – it is eye-opening.
Unsafe working conditions and unsafe work practices lead to a staggering number of workplace and work-related injuries, illnesses, and deaths.
More than 800 U.S. construction workers died in struck-by incidents from 2011 to 2015, which is a rate higher than any other industry.
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