Photo of the day: Lift With Your Legs Not With Your Back
Improper lifting technique can lead to back, leg, and arm pain. Poor technique can cause both acute injury and serious long-term effects. Learning the right way to lift will help you avoid these problems. Most people know this, but actually taking the time to perform lifting…
Woodworking Machine Safety
Woodworking machines with their moving parts and sharp blades can be extremely dangerous if not used correctly. Amputations, blindness, and lacerations are common injuries related to working with these machines. Woodworking tools can be dangerous if not used properly. To…
Effective Safety Meeting
Done right, safety meetings are an opportunity to proactively address potential hazards and issues within your organization. And, they’re a highly effective way to foster a culture of safety. Meeting with employees regularly keeps the lines of communication open in…
Fault Tree Analysis Basics
Fault tree analysis (FTA) is a graphical tool to explore the causes of system-level failures. It uses boolean logic to combine a series of lower-level events and it is basically a top-down approach to identify the component level failures (basic…
Grain Handling Safety Training Program
Grain handling workers face severe dangers of suffocation, falling, entanglement, fires, explosions, electrocutions, and injuries from improperly guarded machinery. These dangers can be eliminated if employers implement a safe grain handling program, train their employees on the safe handling of…
Facts about Fire Prevention
Fire can race through a structure in a matter of minutes, threatening the lives of that inside and leaving a devastating impact on businesses. Every year in the United States, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports on the frequency of…
Photo of the day: First Aid for burns
Burns and scalds are damage to the skin usually caused by heat. Both are treated in the same way. A burn is caused by dry heat by an iron or fire, for example. A scald is caused by something wet, such as hot water…
E-Books: System Safety Engineering and Risk Assessment
System Safety Engineering and Risk Assessment A Practical Approach, Second Edition by Nicholas J. Bahr. This book will give both industry and government the practical insight and concrete success stories to make this happen. The purpose of this book is…
Photo of the day: The 7 Principles of HACCP
The Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) food safety management system is a preventive risk assessment tool operated by the food industry to ensure that all food safety hazards are assessed and that appropriate controls are put in place…
Sunglasses Safety and Eye Health
Sunglasses are more than fashion accessories. They are a necessary protection against the sun’s rays that can damage the eyes. They come in all shapes and sizes. Some are made for fashion rather than function. You probably have a favorite…
Fluid Replacement Facts
Dehydration is a loss of fluids and electrolytes – minerals such as sodium, calcium, and potassium – that the body needs to function. Hydration, the process of absorbing water, is vital to maintaining cardiovascular health, proper body temperature, and muscle…
