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Weekly Safety Meeting – Portable Grinder Safety

Weekly Safety Meeting – Portable Grinder Safety

Portable grinding wheels are designed to operate at very high speeds. If a grinding wheel shatters while in use, the fragments can travel over 300 miles per hour. The potential for serious injury, material damage, and other losses from these shooting fragments is great. To ensure that grinding wheels are...

Safety Tip of the Week –  Portable Grinder Safety

Safety Tip of the Week – Portable Grinder Safety

Portable grinding wheels ae designed to operate at very high speeds. If a grinding wheel shatters while in use, the fragments can travel over 300 miles per hour. The potential for serious injury, material damage, and other losses from these shooting fragments is great. To ensure that grinding wheels are...

Weekly Safety Meeting – Eye Wash Safety

Weekly Safety Meeting – Eye Wash Safety

We all hope we never need an eyewash station, but if an accident should happen it’s our wish that the station is clean and accessible. If a foreign particle enters an eye, an emergency eyewash station is the most important initial step in first-aid treatment. Chemical burns to the eye...

Safety Tip of the Week – Eye Wash Safety

Safety Tip of the Week – Eye Wash Safety

We all hope we never need an eyewash station, but if an accident should happen, it’s our wish that the station is clean and accessible. If a foreign particle enters the eyes, an emergency eyewash station is the most important initial step in first-aid treatment. Chemical burns to the eye...

Weekly Safety Meeting – Tetanus – “Lockjaw”

Weekly Safety Meeting – Tetanus – “Lockjaw”

According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Tetanus is an infection caused by bacteria called Clostridium tetani (C. tetani) that are found in the environment. Tetanus is an uncommon but very serious disease, that requires immediate treatment in a hospital. Signs and Symptoms Symptoms typically occur between 3...

Safety Tip of the Week – Tetanus – “Lockjaw”

Safety Tip of the Week – Tetanus – “Lockjaw”

According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Tetanus is an infection caused by bacteria called Clostridium tetani (C. tetani) that are found in the environment. Tetanus is an uncommon but very serious disease that requires immediate treatment in a hospital. Signs and Symptoms Symptoms typically occur between 3...

Safety Tip of the Week – Summer Sound Safety

Safety Tip of the Week – Summer Sound Safety

The National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH) is recommending use of hearing protection devices while participating in noisy activities this summer. REMEMBER: At Home Turn down your speaker volume of the TV Monitor, radio, or music, and take breaks from listening to reduce your exposure; Use power tools, toys, recreational...

Weekly Safety Meeting – Summer Sound Safety

Weekly Safety Meeting – Summer Sound Safety

Every year the National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) supports National Fireworks Safety Month. It may be in June or July each year, but they have a lot say about the safety issues during fireworks activities. This time we will focus...

Safety Tip of the Week – Trenching and Excavation Safety

Safety Tip of the Week – Trenching and Excavation Safety

Employers must provide a workplace free of recognized hazards that may cause serious injury or death. But unfortunately, every month workers are killed in trench collapses. An excavation is any man-made cut, cavity, trench, or depression in an earth surface formed by earth removal. A trench (Trench excavation) means a...

Weekly Safety Meeting – Trenching and Excavation Safety

Weekly Safety Meeting – Trenching and Excavation Safety

Employers must provide a workplace free of recognized hazards that may cause serious injury or death, but unfortunately every month workers are killed in trench collapses. An excavation is any man-made cut, cavity, trench, or depression in an earth surface formed by earth removal. Trench (Trench excavation) means a narrow...