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Weekly Safety Meeting – Cell Phone Use – Can be Deadly

Weekly Safety Meeting – Cell Phone Use – Can be Deadly

Employees often bring their cell phones to work, a choice that could potentially cause numerous hazards on the job. Cell phones can be a dangerous distraction in the workplace, just like other workplace distractions such as horseplay and chattering with co-workers or having our minds on something other than our...

Safety Tip of the Week – A Safe Workplace – Is a Clean Workplace

Safety Tip of the Week – A Safe Workplace – Is a Clean Workplace

Effective housekeeping can eliminate some workplace hazards and help get a job done safely and properly. Poor housekeeping frequently contributes to accidents by hiding hazards that cause injuries. Effective housekeeping is an ongoing operation: it is not a hit-and-miss cleanup done occasionally. Periodic “panic” cleanups are costly and ineffective in...

Safety Tip of the Week – Respirator Care

Safety Tip of the Week – Respirator Care

Your respirator may be the most important tool of your job. It protects your most precious asset, your health. Yet more often than not, respirators find their way to the bottom of tool bags where they become damaged and/or very dirty inside and out. Both of these conditions compromise the...

Weekly Safety Meeting – Respirator Care

Weekly Safety Meeting – Respirator Care

OSHA requires employers to identify and protect against breathing hazards. Engineering controls are the preferred form of protection, e.g., ventilation, using less toxic measures, and enclosing operations that create air contaminants. When air measurements reveal that engineering controls haven’t brought air hazards to safe levels, employers must provide employees with...

Weekly Safety Meeting – First Aid Awareness

Weekly Safety Meeting – First Aid Awareness

The OSHA First Aid standard requires trained first-aid providers at all workplaces of any size, if there is no “infirmary, clinic, or hospital in near proximity to the workplace which is used for the treatment of all injured employees.” When an accident happens, a first aid program that meets the...

Safety Tip of the Week – First Aid Awareness

Safety Tip of the Week – First Aid Awareness

The OSHA First Aid standard requires trained first-aid providers at all workplaces of any size, if there is no “infirmary, clinic, or hospital in near proximity to the workplace which is used for the treatment of all injured employees.” If an employee is expected to render first aid as part...