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Modern safety management goes beyond covering traditional workplace accidents to now being equally concerned with illnesses caused on and even off the job. This section will explain what you need to know to avoid both injuries and illnesses, and to track your progress in reaching this goal.
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National Immunization Awareness Month is the perfect time to educate your workers about the importance of getting vaccinated against – and keeping their vaccinations up to date for – potentially serious or life-threatening infections. August is National Immunization Awareness Month. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says that the purpose of this event […]
Back injuries are one of the most common workplace maladies. This week, our Safety Training Tips Editor provides tips for preventing these injuries, along with their painful—and costly—consequences. It’s not surprising that there are so many back injuries on the job. The back is involved in almost every move your employees make during the workday. […]
For a variety of reasons, part-time, temporary, and contract workers are at higher risk of occupational injuries and illnesses than workers in traditional work situations. Here are six ways you can help protect them – and yourself. Yesterday’s Advisor told you about studies showing that contingent workers (an umbrella term for part-time, temporary, and contract […]
It’s probably something you always suspected, but now there is solid evidence to support it: Part-time, temporary, and contract workers are at higher risk of occupational injuries and illnesses than workers in traditional work situations That’s the word from National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health (NIOSH) researchers Kristin J. Cummings and Kathleen Kreiss. […]
Yesterday’s Advisor highlighted the problem of slip-and-fall injuries, particularly in restaurants. But the dangers of slips, trips, and falls are present in every industry, and failure to train your workers with a detailed prevention plan is a recipe for disaster. Slips, trips, and falls are so commonplace that it would be easy to discount them […]
The high cost of slips, trips, and falls—both in human suffering and economic losses—is well documented, and perhaps nowhere else do the ingredients combine to make it a bigger problem than in restaurants. Here are some solutions that apply there, and in most other businesses, too. Start with a busy kitchen full of sloshing sinks […]
One workplace danger not discussed enough is that of bodily harm caused by high levels of vibration. So that’s what our Safety Training Tips Editor has chosen to focus on today. Tools like jackhammers, drills, woodworking equipment, chipping tools, grinders, chainsaws, and other vibrating equipment can be hazardous in several different ways. Employees can be […]
Dry eye syndrome doesn’t have to happen, and if it does, the remedies are usually easy to implement. Here are the steps the experts recommend. If the old saying, “not a dry eye in the house” applies to your workplace, you’re lucky. For as we told you in yesterday’s Advisor, dry eye syndrome (DES) is […]
If your workers complain of eye irritation or pain, the blame may lie no further away than your air conditioning vents. Here’s what to look for, assuming your eyes are ok, that is! The office worker was getting really scared. She’d been staring intently at her computer monitor all day, grateful that her building had […]
You can treat heat stress, but preventing it is even better. Here are the steps you need to know to do both. Yesterday’s Advisor began a discussion of heat-related problems workers may face as June stretches into July, August, and September, traditionally the hottest months of the year. Heat problems kill some 4,000 Americans yearly, […]