Yesterday, we talked about foot protection. Today, we focus on common workplace foot hazards and injuries.
The feet are among the hardest working parts of the body. Feet are busy all day long, standing, walking, or climbing. Feet endure hundreds of pounds of pressure while they work, and the heavier a person is the more pressure the feet must bear.
In addition, feet are complex appendages. Each foot has 26 bones, 33 joints, and more than 100 tendons, muscles, and ligaments. And any one of these parts can be injured in a job accident.
What’s more, awareness is a big issue. Most people probably don’t think much about their feet when they work. For example, workers might not pay attention to where they’re putting their feet. It could be some place hazardous.
So it’s no wonder that for many employees, their feet are often more vulnerable to injury on the job than they might think.
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Common Foot Hazards
Foot injuries occur so frequently because there are numerous foot hazards in most industrial and construction workplaces.
Your employees need to be aware of all the foot hazards in your workplace. For example:
- Falling or rolling objects
- Objects piercing the sole of the shoe
- Contact with corrosive or other harmful substances
- Machine and equipment hazards
- Extreme heat or cold
- Electrical hazards
- Stubbing or banging toes against heavy objects
- Slippery or wet surfaces
Workers should also understand the potential for injury, which could be serious. Their feet and toes could be:
- Cut
- Crushed
- Amputated
- Burned
- Bruised
Furthermore, bones in the feet and toes could be broken and ligaments and tendons could be torn or strained.
A foot injury could put an employee out of action for days or even weeks. That’s bad for the employee and for the organization.
Keeping feet safe from injury on the job is an important part of overall safety. Make sure they understand this and “watch their step.”
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Quick, Effective Training at a Great Price
To help train employees in a broad range of safety and health topics, including foot protection, savvy safety professionals have for years relied on the BLR 7-Minute Safety Trainer. This essential training resource allows you to provide concise, memorable training easily and effectively in just a few minutes. Materials are ready-to-use, and each session supplies a detailed trainer’s outline as well as a handout, quiz, and quiz answers to get your points across quickly—and cost-effectively.
All told, this “trainer’s bible” contains 50 prewritten meetings covering almost every aspect of safety you’d want or need to train on, in a format designed to be taught in as little as 7 minutes. Major topics include:
- Confined spaces
- Electrical safety
- Fire safety and emergency response
- HazCom
- Machine guarding and lockout/tagout
- Material handling
- PPE use and care
- Housekeeping/slips, trips, and falls
- and dozens more
Just make as many copies as you need of the included handouts and quizzes, and you’re ready to train.
Equally important is that the program ships new meetings every quarter to respond to new and changed regulations. This service is included in the program price, which averages just over $1 a working day. In fact, this is one of BLR’s most popular safety programs.
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