Tagged: stress

Weekly Safety Meeting – Avoiding Cold Stress Injuries

Weekly Safety Meeting – Avoiding Cold Stress Injuries

Cold stress, or hypothermia, can affect workers not protected against it. When the body cannot maintain its warmth, serious cold-related illnesses and injuries can occur. This may lead to permanent tissue damage or even death. It is natural for your body to try to maintain its core temperature (chest and...

Safety Tip of the Week – Avoiding Cold Stress Injuries

Safety Tip of the Week – Avoiding Cold Stress Injuries

Prolonged exposure to cold and/or freezing temperatures while on the job may cause serious health problems such as trench foot, frostbite and hypothermia. In extreme cases, exposure to cold temperatures can lead to death. Cold-stress Controls: Employees must recognize the early stages of cold stress in themselves and others. The...

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 – Heat Stress

Weekly Safety Meeting – Heat Stress

Heat Stress As spring turns into summer and brings up “hot weather,” we should all be aware of some tips to prevent heat stress. Remember physical activity at high temperatures can directly affect health and indirectly be the cause of accidents. Hot conditions put your body under a lot of...

Safety Tip of the Week – Heat Stress

Safety Tip of the Week – Heat Stress

Heat Stress Hot conditions put your body under a lot of stress. Physical activity stresses the body even more. When heat is combined with physical activity, loss of fluids, fatigue, and other conditions can lead to a number of heat-related illnesses and injuries. Death is even possible. When the body...

Weekly Safety Meeting – Heat Safety

Weekly Safety Meeting – Heat Safety

Heat Safety As spring turns into summer and brings “hot weather,” we should all be aware of some tips to prevent heat stress. Remember physical activity at high temperatures can directly affect health and indirectly be the cause of accidents. Hot conditions put your body under a lot of stress....

Safety Tip of the Week – Heat Safety

Safety Tip of the Week – Heat Safety

Heat Safety As spring turns into summer and brings “hot weather,” we should all be aware of some tips to prevent heat stress. Sweating is a means the body uses to maintain a stable internal body temperature in the face of heat. However, sweating is effective only if the humidity...

Weekly Safety Meeting – Heat Is Coming

Weekly Safety Meeting – Heat Is Coming

Heat is Coming One of the most significant hazards that summer brings is heat illness. Although there may not have been very many truly hot and humid days yet this year, now is the time we need to talk about heat illness. Quite honestly, your body is probably not yet...

Weekly Safety Meeting – Hot and Hazardous (2)

Weekly Safety Meeting – Hot and Hazardous (2)

Hot and Hazardous You’re saying to yourself that you have heard all about heat stress before and nothing has changed. But yes, some things have changed. You are older and more susceptible to heat stress. Your crew may have new members who have never heard about heat stress. Your crew...