Compressed gas cylinders are a common fixture in research laboratories. As such it is imperative to understand the safe handling, transportation,...
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Understanding the forklift stability triangle is essential for workplace safety. When workers understand their vehicle’s capacity limits and the general principle...
Essential Practices for Process Safety CultureBook's cover Essential Practices for Creating, Strengthening, and Sustaining Process Safety Culture by American Institute...
working with a chainsaw involves many different work situations with both simple and more complicated steps. The chainsaw is a...
The goal of this Accident Investigation Safety Training Program is to introduce basic principles and analysis techniques for investigating workplace...
Workers in industries such as construction, manufacturing, and transportation can avoid workplace accidents by taking the appropriate safety precautions. However, despite...
Hand accidents account for between 40% to 60% of recordable workplace accidents each year.1 Yet, knowing how to best protect...
Woodworking machines with their moving parts and sharp blades can be extremely dangerous if not used correctly. Amputations, blindness, and...
Done right, safety meetings are an opportunity to proactively address potential hazards and issues within your organization. And, they're a...
Fault tree analysis (FTA) is a graphical tool to explore the causes of system-level failures. It uses boolean logic to...
Grain handling workers face severe dangers of suffocation, falling, entanglement, fires, explosions, electrocutions, and injuries from improperly guarded machinery. These...
Fire can race through a structure in a matter of minutes, threatening the lives of that inside and leaving a...
System Safety Engineering and Risk Assessment Book's cover System Safety Engineering and Risk Assessment A Practical Approach, Second Edition by...
The Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) food safety management system is a preventive risk assessment tool operated by...
In almost every industry, a load of some kind is being lifted, manipulated, lowered, or carried in a way that...
Most drivers spend less than 1% of their driving time in reverse, yet national statistics indicate that about one-quarter of...
Gasoline is a major fuel source to power vehicles, lawnmowers, boats, motorcycles, snowblowers, tractors, and some light planes. It is...
In the process industry, both terms refer to safety devices, which generally come in the form of valves, cylinders, and...
Permit-Required Confined Spaces Book's cover Permit-Required Confined Spaces is an informational booklet provides a general overview of a particular topic...
Employee participation in any near-miss program is vital, however, it can be challenging to get workers to conform to change...
The purpose of this Scaffold checklist is two-fold: 1) to answer questions to help employers and employees understand the requirements...
Lifting Accessories and equipment are marked for a variety of reasons, the most important of which is to give it...
Wearing personal fall protection equipment while working at height, including lanyards and self-retracting lifelines (SRLs), is the key to returning home safely...
Reducing the risk of workplace injuries is a high priority among industries, and is especially so in the electric power...