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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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In 2017, the National Children’s Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety reported that every 3 days, a child dies in an agricultural-related accident. Of the leading sources of fatalities among all youth, 25 percent involved machinery, 17 percent involved motor vehicles (including all-terrain vehicles (ATVs)), and 16 percent were drownings. For working youth, […]
Cal/OSHA continues to warn employers and employees that the major outbreak of hepatitis A in parts of the state is ongoing and that California law requires that employers take measures to stop or reduce the spread of this highly contagious disease in the workplace. Most of the essential measures involve keeping a clean workplace and […]
While falls from roofs are a major hazard in the general construction industry, hazards posed by hot work during built-up roofing are also significant. With warm weather approaching in much of the country, roofing work will pick up, and this is a good time for roofing employers to review their practices to protect roofers. Several […]
Many people look forward to the comfort of coming home after a long day. While it should be a place of safety and refuge free from the daily concerns of work and uncertainty, unfortunately, this is not always the case. Hidden dangers around your house, such as toxins like asbestos, could be impacting your health […]
It’s Global Asbestos Awareness Week—check out this infographic from the Mesothelioma + Asbestos Awareness Center (MAA) for valuable information regarding this persistent environmental, health, and safety hazard.
Commonly thought of as an issue of the previous century, asbestos is still very much a hazard that many employees face in the workforce today. From existing asbestos that has been in buildings for decades to the few remaining current uses, asbestos awareness should be of concern and handled properly.
Hearing impairment can be caused by exposure both to noise and to chemicals, and the impairment from either of those two exposures can be worse if there is exposure to both. Damage to hearing from chemicals—called ototoxicity; the chemicals themselves are called ototoxicants—is a relatively unknown cause of injury to workers, a state of affairs […]
An offshore energy company successfully defended itself against claims by a former employee that a drilling rig off the coast of Louisiana, where she worked as a galley hand, was unseaworthy; that the company was, therefore, negligent; and that negligence was a cause of an injury she suffered.
Slip-and-fall accidents are one of the leading causes of injury in the construction workplace. While the most catastrophic of these occur when working from heights, many injuries also happen at the ground level. Many accidents occur when walking across uneven ground that is too soft, too hard, wet, or muddy.
According to the American Optometric Association’s (AOA) 2016 American Eye-Q® survey, the average American spends 7 or more hours per day looking at an assortment of screens: phones, tablets, computers, and flat-screen televisions. For Millennials, the figure was even higher: an average of 9 hours per day. Use of these devices has only increased—and this […]