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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. […]
With a new OSHA lockout/tagout directive in place – including the statement that LOTO compliance will now be part of all OSHA programmed inspections – LOTO training has never been more important. Here’s how you can get your workplace prepared. In yesterday’s Advisor, we told you about OSHA’s new lockout/tagout (LOTO) compliance directive that instructs […]
OSHA’s new lockout/tagout (LOTO) directive tells you how the agency is interpreting the LOTO standards – and how its inspectors will be enforcing it. Wouldn’t you love to have the inside scoop on what OSHA inspectors will be looking for when they examine your lockout/tagout (LOTO) procedures? Well, you can – courtesy of the agency […]
An employee who falls from a height wearing personal fall protection may be saved from instant death or terrible injury. But that employee is still at risk until rescued. Here’s what our Safety Training Tips editor advises that you do to be ready to act quickly. Be aware of the hazards. An employee who falls […]
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 […]
The growth in popularity of nail guns and other powered fasteners has seen a corresponding increase in injuries—often gruesome—associated with their use. Here’s how you can help safeguard your workers. Yesterday’s Advisor chronicled the recent spike in nail gun-related injuries, which rose more than threefold between 1995 and 2005. While some of those injuries stem […]
With a recent spike in nail gun injuries, some researchers say that many tragedies could be avoided if federal authorities would ban the fastest—and most dangerous—of the devices. Sitting in a pickup truck with a 2½-inch nail lodged in his chest, Manuel Murillo was able to call his wife on his cell phone and tell […]