Be a Safety Leader
An employer or supervisor can't stand by you every second to see that safety rules are followed.
An employer or supervisor can't stand by you every second to see that safety rules are followed.
It's hard to believe that noise can cause permanent damage to your hearing - but it can.
You may work around construction sites or encounter backhoes, loaders, compactors and cranes in your neighborhood or along highways.
Horseplay is rough play, practical jokes and other physical humor which can endanger workers.
Safety eyewear and face shields can save you from injuries which can lead to blindness. Prompt treatment of eye injuries reduces the risk of permanent damage.
How This Affects You: Your back is used in all you do, on and off the job, and hurting it can have severe consequences: a lifetime of pain, inability to work or play and reduced income.
How This Affects You: Many workers like you are killed or injured in workplace fires each year.
You're struggling to loosen over-tightened lug nuts while fixing a flat tire on a hot, dusty highway.
You might be the toughest roughneck around, but a good dose of heat stress can quickly tame anyone's bravado.
Your workplace probably has countless electrical tools and devices capable of delivering a fatal electrical shock.
If you aren't wearing the right protection your hands could be burned, frozen, cut, scraped or burned by chemicals. You could lose fingers, a thumb, or even your life. That's why you wear gloves.
Maintenance employees are confronted with many hazards that can cause injury or death. One such hazard is exposure to asbestos.
Working with some contractors' employees can create challenges, not to mention anxiety and hazards. But with cooperation and understanding, job safety doesn't have to be "hit or miss."
If you work in construction, or even if there is construction going on in your workplace, you need to be aware of the dangers associated with excavations.
Housekeeping may not be your favorite job, but a messy workplace is where injuries occur.
You may spend 15 minutes deciding what you're going to wear for a night on the town. But for a day on the job, safety dictates your wardrobe.
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.
Tool belts are the next best thing to sliced bread, but they can turn a normally productive day into misery if you're careless.
How This Affects You: Don't think fate wouldn't leave you stranded in a vehicle during a snow storm. This happened to school bus driver Carl Miller in Colorado.
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.
You're steam cleaning the shop floor when you accidentally knock over a 5-gallon can of gasoline near the welding booth. Do you know what to do?
How This Affects You: Nearly 6,000 people every year suffer serious eye injuries from working around batteries. Don't be one of them.
Every workplace is a little different, but one thing they all have in common is the need and desire to keep workers as safe and free from injury or illness as possible.
We're all grownups around here, right? Everyone has a job to do and every job is taken seriously.
When fuel is burned, carbon monoxide is a byproduct. This gas kills thousands of people at work and at home each year.
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