Protruding Rebars Hazards and Control Measures
Rebar reinforcement bars are a common part of civil concrete work. Subsequently, rebar safety is an extremely important issue on construction sites. There are two common types of accidents associated with rebar, they are implements and abrasions. Some other hazards…
E-Books: A to Z Health and Safety Book
The A to Z Health and Safety Book by Jeremy W Stranks. The book is for public health inspectors (environmental health officers) and HSE Professionals. Book describes A to Z topics With over 100 entries arranged in an accessible index format…
E-Books: Industrial Safety Management
Industrial Safety Management 21st Century Perspectives of Asia by J Maiti, Pradip Kumar Ray. The book refers to managing business activities and applying principles, framework, processes to help prevent accidents, injuries, and to minimize other risks. ‘Safety Management’ concepts are used…
E-Books: NIOSH Pocket guide to chemical hazards
CDC NIOSH Pocket guide to chemical hazards (NPG) by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. The pocket guide presents information taken from the NIOSH/OSHA Occupational Health Guidelines for Chemical Hazards, from National…
E-Books: Occupational Safety and Health Law Handbook
Occupational Safety and Health Law Handbook By Melissa A. Bailey, Matthew C. Cooper, Frank D. Davis. The handbook begins with a review of the basic requirements of the law, who is covered, who is not, how safety and health standards are developed,…
E-Books: Industrial Hygiene Simplified
Industrial Hygiene Simplified: A Guide to Anticipation, Recognition, Evaluation, and Control of Workplace Hazards by Frank R. Spellman. This book was written in response to the need for a hands-on, practical resource that focuses on the needs of modern industrial…
E-Books: Managing your shiftwork
This book Managing your shiftwork has been produced to help people understand the nature of shiftwork and is designed to assist individuals in coping with this lifestyle. Everything in it has been extensively researched both inside and outside of the…
E-Books: Learning from Accidents
Learning from Accidents Third edition Book by Trevor Kletz. This book deals mainly with accident investigation and the need to look beyond the immediate technical causes for ways of avoiding the hazards and for weaknesses in the management system. The…
E-Books: The Essential Manager’s Handbook
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text] The Essential Manager’s Handbook THE ULTIMATE VISUAL GUIDE TO SUCCESSFUL MANAGEMENT. Be a more effective manager and hone your management style with DK Essential Managers Handbook, a bind-up of DK’s DK Essential Managers: Leadership, DK Essential Managers: Managing People, DK Essential Managers:…
E-Books: Handbook of Rigging Lifting, Hoisting, and Scaffolding for Construction and Industrial Operations
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text] This fifth edition of the industry acknowledged standard rigging reference, first published in 1950—Handbook of Rigging for Construction & Industrial Operations (Lifting, Hoisting, and Scaffolding), has been comprehensibly revised, expanded, and updated to include the current best practices…
How To Improve Your Total Recordable Injury Frequency Rate on the Job Site
Work related injuries are defined as the accidents that happen in the workplace that lead to an employee’s inability to safely work the next full work day. But how can we effectively limit the number of these work injuries? According to…
Safety People , Not Safety Numbers
Focusing on safety data over people is a common cause of frustration among employees. I see this all too often – we focus on numbers and use them to influence people.We have this backward. We must focus on our people…
E-Books:Electrical Safety in the Construction Industry
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Whenever you work with power tools or on electrical circuits there is a risk of electrical hazards, especially electrical shock. Anyone can be exposed to these hazards at home or at work. Workers are exposed to more hazards because…
Disaster Preparedness: 5 Tips for Construction Site Managers
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The United States knows that Mother Nature can be merciless. From the deadly hurricanes in Tornado Alley to the wildfires of the West, many states are exposed to different hazards and vulnerable to natural disasters. In fact, 56 severe thunderstorms,…
Online Quiz:Construction Safety -Excavation
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Excavation failures are particularly dangerous because they may occur quickly, limiting the ability of workers (and in some cases others nearby) to escape, especially if the collapse is extensive.The speed of an excavation collapse increases the risk associated with this…
Video: Electrical Safety Awareness -Safety Moment#23
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This electrical awareness video is focused on identifying hazards around electricity on the job site. All other hazards on the job require the same focus and respect while performing your hazard assessments and should not be disregarded or have any…
When Your Job Takes You to the Edge
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] A fall can occur in the blink of an eye, caused by a momentary lapse in concentration, tiredness, lack of spatial awareness, misplaced footing, reaction to an unexpectedly loud noise, slipping or loss of balance, which is exacerbated if…
Fall Arrest Systems:can workers tie off at foot level?
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Your Company just scored a complex new construction project. Your task is to plan out the fall protection – but this project is a tricky one. There aren’t many options for overhead anchorage points. So you wonder, can I have the workers…
Keeping Warehouse Personnel Safe 6 Key Tips -Safety Moment#20
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Warehouse work may seem simple or straightforward, but the hazards are numerous. There are often limited sightlines and mobile machinery like forklifts, trucks, and robots moving around in close proximity to workers. There are heavy loads on pallets being shifted…
Temporary structure, permanent safety
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Help keep employees safe during all stages of scaffolding work On a November day in 1994, a 60-year-old painter foreman with 20 years of experience was standing more than 35 feet above the ground on a scaffold, working on…
Workplace Summer Safety Hazards:The Top 5
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]With planning and prevention, you and your workers can make it through the summer months safely.It’s time for warm weather, long weekends, and backyard cookouts. But the summer season also brings unique workplace hazards.Staying safe during the hot weather means…
Understanding RF radiation-Safety Moment#19
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]For most workers, radiofrequency radiation – an invisible type of non-ionizing radiation used to transmit wireless information – isn’t something to be overly concerned about. Low levels of RF radiation aren’t considered hazardous, according to the Center for Construction Research…
E-Books:Introduction to Health and Safety in construction,2nd Ed
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text] Introduction to Health and Safety in Construction has quickly established itself, in its first two years, as the standard text for students taking the NEBOSH National Certificate in Construction Safety and Health. It is also of great value…
66 Safety Tips at work-Safety Moment#17
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Different Work Places have Many and Different hazards with high probability of occurrence if there is no proper control measure to avoid such hazards. It could be affect negatively on workers , equipment and Environment with undesired consequence of Ill health ,…
