Category: Weekly Safety Meeting

Weekly Safety Meeting – Heat is Coming

Weekly Safety Meeting – Heat is Coming

Heat is Coming As temperatures begin to rise, so does the risk of heat illness. Heat-related deaths and illness are preventable, yet many people succumb to the effects. Heat-related illness is also an underlying cause of a high percentage of non-fatal incidents. People suffer from heat-related illness when their bodies...

Weekly Safety Meeting – Silica Safety

Weekly Safety Meeting – Silica Safety

Silica Safety In June 2017, OSHA released a final ruling on the use of silica, discussing all of the dangers that are associated with the consistent exposure of silica, and they noted that it’s been directly linked to more than 900 cases of silicosis, annually—which is a very deadly respiratory...

Weekly Safety Meeting – Fireworks Safety

Weekly Safety Meeting – Fireworks Safety

Fireworks Safety In 2017, at least four people died and about 11,100 were injured badly enough to require medical treatment after fireworks-related incidents, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. And while the majority of these incidents were due to amateurs attempting to use professional-grade, homemade, or other illegal...

Weekly Safety Meeting – Heat Stress Causes Body Reactions

Weekly Safety Meeting – Heat Stress Causes Body Reactions

Heat Stress Causes Body Reactions Four environmental factors affect the amount of stress a worker faces in a hot work area: temperature, humidity, radiant heat (such as from the sun or a furnace) and air velocity. Perhaps most important to the level of stress an individual faces are personal characteristics...

Weekly Safety Meeting – Warning: Read the Signs

Weekly Safety Meeting – Warning: Read the Signs

Warning: Read the Signs Safety signs are too important to be ignored. They provide us with vital hazard information in a number of ways: through colors, words, and pictures. Signs tell you where the hazards are and how to protect against the danger. Safety signs come in all sizes, colors,...