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Eye Protection   Let's take a short elementary test. Can you tell me how many basic senses there are, and can you name them? Taste, smell, hearing, touch, and sight. Of the five, which is the one that we depend upon the most? You guessed it -- it's sight. Ev...

Getting Ready for Winter Work ·       Two big concerns of working or simply spending time outdoors in cold weather are frostbite and hypothermia. Both can occur at much higher temperatures than many people realize. For example, exposed skin ca...

Electrical Power Tools Hand power tools are a common part of our everyday lives. However, these simple tools can be hazardous and have the potential for causing severe injuries. The nature of the injuries, include those caused by ground faults and possibility...

Have you thought of ways to make your job easier? There is one way - one that not only makes a job easier, but safer - practicing good housekeeping.   A nail in a scrapped two-by-four goes through a shoe and punctures a foot. A pile of trash catches fire. A...

Inspection of Ladders OSHA says that all ladders must be inspected regularly for visible defects by a competent person and after any incident that could affect its safe use. Check your ladders for damage before each use. If you find a damaged ladder let your...

Pneumatic Nail Gun Safety According to the American National Standards Institute, a manual trigger, and a contact element in the nose of the nail gun are two key components to prevent unintentional firing. The sequential trip-trigger is the safest type of tri...

Lockout Tagout The unexpected start-up of machines or equipment or the release of stored energy can cause injury to you and your co-workers. If effective, your company’s lockout/tagout program can prevent your exposure to accidental, injurious, and even life-...

OSHA’s Focus Four Campaign is a long running emphasis program on the activities that are statistically the most likely to cause an injury or fatality.   Those include: ·       Falls ·       Caught-in-Between ·       Struck By ·       Electrocution   P...

Safety Teamwork Safety is a cooperative undertaking requiring a total safety consciousness on the part of every employee. No one likes to see someone injured, but if an accident occurs, in addition to treating the victim, prompt reporting must take place and ...

The Basics of Head Protection Few injuries are more fatal or more damaging than head injuries. Concussions, brain injuries, permanent or temporary brain damage are just a few of the possible outcomes of a blow to the head. Additionally, workers who are expose...

Eye Protection How many times have you said or heard -- "He should have worn his safety glasses." or “If I had been wearing my safety glasses, I wouldn't have injured my eye.”? -- Too many times! Eye protection begins with the ability to recognize those time...

Fall Prevention - General Statistics Related to Slips, Trips, & Falls Accidents involving slips, trips, and falls are responsible for causing a great number of serious injuries in the workplace, as well as being the cause of many work-related fatalities. In f...

Hearing Protection Just the Facts: Noise is one of the most common occupational health hazards. Construction workers may be exposed to hazardous levels of noise daily. This exposure puts them at high risk for losing their hearing and the high frequencies are...

LADDERS – FALL HAZARDS Falls from ladders and stairs account for more than 24,000 injuries and 36 deaths each year. Falls are the leading cause of death in construction. Since we utilize ladders almost daily it is extremely important that we focus on making...

TOWING SAFETY Vehicles are involved in accidents every day and they can usually be prevented. Safety should always be your main concern when you're pulling a trailer. Because no matter how easy and comfortable the process, the fact is that your towing rig wei...

Fall Prevention – Lanyards for Fall Arrest Systems – Do’s and Don’ts A lanyard is obviously an extremely important part of a fall arrest or fall prevention system. So here are a few safety tips related to the selection, use, and care of your fall protection l...

Fall Protection – Preventing Slips, trips, and falls in the Workplace Diligence in identifying and avoiding hazards is the key to avoiding falls. Here are a few things we can do to eliminate, or at least, minimize slips, trips, and falls in the workplace. · ...

Fall Prevention – Fall Arrest Full Body Harnesses – Do’s and Don’ts   Falls from one level to another are among the leading causes of severe injuries and death among workers in the United States. Many workers who were injured or killed were wearing a full bo...

Fall Protection Systems - Anchor Points for Fall Arrest Systems You’ve got your full body harness on and properly adjusted, and you’ve attached the proper end of your lanyard to the back D-ring on your harness. The next step is to attach the other end of your...

Fall Prevention – Avoiding Falls While Working on Scaffolding Here are some tips to help avoid falls when working with various types of scaffolding: ·       Guardrails or another suitable form of fall protection, such as a personal fall arrest system or trav...