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Lockout /tagout is an important safety measure to ensure that [...]
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Crane accidents are one of the leading causes of construction workers’ deaths. Are you protecting your workers, bystanders, equipment and property from these six types of crane accidents?
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Across North America, more than 18,000 amputations, lacerations, crushing injuries, abrasions, and over 800 deaths per year result from machines and equipment that were not properly guarded.
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Crane accidents are one of the leading causes of construction workers’ deaths. Are you protecting your workers, bystanders, equipment and property from these six types of crane accidents?
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Whether it’s generated in an indoor setting such as a non-air-conditioned warehouse or foundry or in outdoor worksites such as construction sites or farms, too much heat can be a killer.
Surveys estimate that work tools and power tools cause an average of nearly 400,000 visits to the emergency room each year. Of those injured, more than 200 die. Here’s what else you need to know.
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Remember these five tips when working outdoors.
During the servicing and maintenance of machines and equipment, the unexpected startup or release of stored energy can result in serious injury or death. Injuries may include electrocution, burns, crushing, cutting, lacerating, amputating, or fracturing body parts. It’s estimated more than 120 deaths and over 50,000 injuries are prevented each year due to following proper lockout/tagout procedures.
Unintentional falls are the most common form of injury across the country: every day last year, falls resulted in almost 1,800 reported emergency department visits and 417 hospital admissions, says a new report by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI). In the U.S. in 2017, fatal falls were at their highest level in the 26-year history of the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI) accounting for 887 (17 percent) worker deaths.
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.
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