Recordable Injuries – Why Employees Should Care All injuries need to be reported, no matter how small. Not only does it protect you, but it also protects the company as a whole by possibly preventing a first-aid injury from developing into an OSHA recordable injury....
Dealing with Stress from Home Our home life often overlaps with our work and vice versa, both in good ways and bad ways. Stressors at home can begin to pile up and affect our work if we are not careful. While some stress is so great that the worker experiencing it...
Weekly Safety Minute Heat Illness Exposure to heat can cause illness and death. The most serious heat illness is heat stroke. Other heat illnesses, such as heat exhaustion, heat cramps and heat rash, should also be avoided. There are precautions your employer should...
Weekly Safety Minute Every day there are 2000 accidents involving ladders of those 2000, 100 people are hospitalized and of that 100, one is fatally injured. Over the last 10 years the amount of ladder-related injuries has increased 50%. There are four basic factors...
What Can Hurt Me Today? Every day before our work begins, we should go through some type of process to evaluate the work for the day as well as the associated hazards. This process can include a self-check as well as a work area inspection and inspection of tools or...
