Case # 1: A day in the construction site is another ordinary one for Billy. He has no problem drilling holes on a wall until the drill bits and hole saws get stuck while the drill spins. Later, he suffers from severe wrist and elbow injury.
Case #2: Meet Carlos, another electrical worker. [...]
In a perfect world, employees don’t have to worry about breaking their shoulder bone, falling off scaffolds, or catching a grave lung disease. They’d be provided with excellent training not only once but regularly.
Besides being comfortable and self-cleaning, their PPE could be worn in a matter of seconds and would have built-in [...]
Working with chemicals is always a dangerous business. While not all chemicals are potentially explosive, some can leave your skin burned and beyond repair. Others can blind or even asphyxiate you in a matter of seconds.
Although wearing proper personal protective equipment (PPE) protects you from a chemical’s potential hazards, nothing beats the indispensability [...]
Transporting loads is a very dangerous operation. It might seem like a simple task of getting stuff from one place and bringing it to another. But loading, unloading and transporting cargo can cause serious injury and even fatality. Workers loading and unloading cargo are exposed to serious danger in that heavy objects may hit [...]
In the past month, we ran 13 articles that offer tips and safety measures for eliminating and controlling different hazards in the workplace. From blindness and bone fractures to impalement and explosions, the compilation of tips below can save you from almost every possible danger on the job. Just click on a title to [...]
Employers are treated once again to free training materials by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) with the recent launch of the three new Safety and Health Information Bulletins (SHIBS) in their website. Each new bulletin discusses specific hazards in the workplace and ways to address them by eliminating or controlling them.
The first [...]
One of the effective ways to eliminate and control fire hazards is to have a fire and safety watch. This is a requirement whenever welding and other operations posing fire hazards are done in the workplace.
Here are the basic responsibilities of a fire and safety watch:
Watch out for fire hazards in the workplace [...]
The year 1988 saw the ratification of the Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act. This act requires all states to have a written emergency operations plan (EOP) to qualify for some federal funding.
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But after 20 years and amidst all the fatalities swamping workplaces across the country, nearly half of [...]
Trainings provided by employers may actually present hurdles instead of crutches. Blame the many technical terms found in training materials. This is a fact presented by recent U.S. studies conducted by two professors in Purdue University.
Associate Professor James McGlothlin and Assistant Professor Bryan Hubbard said new construction workers and [...]
We always stress the importance of training employees to maintain and improve their safety in the workplace. In the past months we’ve featured articles on training in heat stress prevention, operating forklifts, working around agricultural chemicals, arc-welding, responding to fall emergencies, etcetera, etcetera. But even “training” is too general a term.
Do [...]
