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This program utilizes video shot on location as well as 3D animations to train new or experienced employees in the importance of safe operation and the responsibilities of professional lift truck operations, and the skills and techniques operators can use to help ensure workplace safety and incident prevention.
Safe operation of a forklift begins before the operator ever starts to drive the lift truck. It begins with the operator’s mental state of mind.
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A hand injury occurs in the workplace every 32-seconds. Though they usually do not grab the headlines and are not fatal in nature, over 16 million individuals seek emergency care each year for hand injuries. Hands are often in the forefront of the specific task being performed and thus exposed to more risks.
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The space between a loading dock and a truck trailer is one of the most dangerous in any plant. But no matter how fast things move for just-in-time shipping, you should always make time for safety.
Getting caught in machinery is every worker's nightmare, but you can prevent it from becoming yours with a little vigilance.
Struck-by and caught-between hazards account for over 1,500 workplace deaths a year and are present in almost every industry sector.
If pressure vessels are improperly operated or improperly maintained, they can fail catastrophically, potentially flattening buildings and killing workers and people living in the area.
It’s a simple fact: Machines need to move to perform their tasks. Whether it’s a conveyor belt carrying raw material to a mixing tank, power presses bending sheet metal or a drill press punching holes in a piece of wood, they all operate by movements that cause a serious risk to workers.
People who aren’t expecting to end up in water often are not prepared for that possibility and the results can be tragic. Every year in the United States and Canada, an estimated 3,800 people drown, with many of these victims being people who ended up in the water unintentionally.
Compressed air can make short work of everything from changing tires to nailing and stapling, but its power demands respect.
Wherever heavy work needs to be done in a small space, the skid-steer loader can be found. Carelessness around or in operating these machines can injure or kill you.
Lockout procedures eliminate the chance a machine could become energized whenever it is being cleaned, repaired, maintained, or unjammed.
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You may work around construction sites or encounter backhoes, loaders, compactors and cranes in your neighborhood or along highways.
Tom didn't realize it, but he was a victim of contact stress. For the past year the electronics assembly worker developed painful symptoms merely by resting his forearms against the edge of his workbench. It was starting to take a nasty toll.
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.
You must take steps to prevent equipment from becoming energized while it is being worked on. The energy can be pneumatic, electrical, mechanical, hydraulic, chemical or thermal. There can be other sources as well —
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