Infection control is critical in making sure that your entire workforce doesn’t get sick in times of pandemic or flu season. Can you find all the words associated with infection control?

Injury and Illness can have a multitude of effects on your workplace, from lost workdays to infection and beyond. Can you find all the words associated with injury and illness?

Regular audits and inspections aid in minimizing and eliminating safety hazards on the job. Can you find all the words associated with Audits and Inspections?

Workplace machinery presents serious physical hazards. Ensure you have the proper guards in place to protect workers. Can you find all the words associated with machine guarding?

Many workplaces deal with a multitude of different materials, some of which can be hazardous. Can you find all the words associated with materials handling and storage?

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Use this infographic to illustrate the risk of drug use in the workplace. Alcohol and drug abuse by employees can cause many expensive problems for business and industry such as lost productivity, injuries, and an increase in health insurance claims.

Use this infographic to learn some interesting statistics caused by drug and alcohol use in the workplace. Problems that alcohol and drug abuse can cause on the job include:

• Sleeping on the job
• Hangover
• Poor decision making
• Loss of efficiency

Use this infographic to know how drugs and alcohol are impacting employees and their workplace. Costs to businesses can be measured at the expense of absenteeism, injuries, health insurance claims, loss of productivity, employee morale, theft, and fatalities.

Use this electrical Infographic to learn some statistics and safety tips.

The main hazards of working with electricity are:

• electric shock and burns from contact with live parts
• injury from exposure to arcing, fire from faulty electrical equipment or installations
• explosion caused by unsuitable electrical apparatus.

Electricity can kill or severely injure people. Use this electrical infographic to illustrate the risk of working with or near electricity and electrical equipment.

Use this infographic to illustrate how workers are at risk of electrical injuries. Humans are more conductive than the earth (the ground we stand on) which means if there is no other easy path, electricity will try to flow through our bodies.

Use this infographic to learn some statistics related to work injuries and illness. 

Use this infographic to get to know some of the most common workplace injuries, and some statistics.

• Every day, more than 12 workers die on the job – over 4,500 a year.

Both on and off the job, health and wellness is the key to maximizing energy, productivity, and happiness. Can you find all the words associated with health and wellness?

Protect your hearing! Knowing the hazards associated with working around noise is vital in conserving your hearing at work. Can you find all the words associated with hearing conservation?

Knowing the circumstances under which hearing loss can occur is vital in workplaces with lots of noise. Can you find all the words associated with hearing loss?

Horseplay and practical jokes may be good for a laugh, but in the workplace, they’re no laughing matter. Can you find all the words associated with horseplay?

Use this statistic infographic to illustrate the risk of distracted driving.  More than nine percent of fatal crashes in the United States in the past seven years involved a distracted driver.

Tools can help you get the job done quicker, but also introduce many different hazards to the worksite. Can you find all the words associated with hand and power tools?

Harassment and discrimination can have serious consequences in your workplace. Can you find all the words associated with harassment and discrimination?

A template you can adapt if you require employees to get a flu or COVID-19 shot. 

Vaccination is the most effective defense against flu viruses. So, it behooves you to ensure that your employees get flu shots every year at the start of flu season and during outbreaks. One strategy is to implement a policy requiring employees to be vaccinated. Caveat: Mandatory vaccination policies may result in protests and expose your organization to legal risks. Such policies are justifiable only if you can show it’s an essential health and safety measure, that it’s no broader than it needs to be and that it leaves rooms for exemptions and accommodations required by human rights laws. Here’s a template you can adapt, that can also be used for COVID-19 and other illnesses for which vaccination can provide safe and effective immunization.

A sample form for an employee to request exemption from required vaccinations.

Although not required by law, requiring employees to complete a written form to request religious accommodations is a best practice used by many leading companies. The form should list the key information you need to evaluate the request, including details about how the current work schedule, policy or practice interferes with the employee’s religious belief or practice, what revisions or modifications the employee is requesting to resolve the problem and whether alternative accommodations would suffice if the requested accommodation isn’t granted. The form also requires the employee to certify to the sincerity of his/her religious belief or practice, the accuracy of the information provided to support it and the possibility that further supporting information may be required. Here’s a Model Request Form you can adapt for your own organization.

HAZCOM protocols are useful in concisely communicating the dangers of hazardous chemicals and other materials to all those who handle them. Can you find all the words associated with hazard communication?