One company reduces warehouse workers’ risk from moving vehicles by keeping distraction at bay. For example, no iPods or cellphones, even hands-free.
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In the new video below, it’s a farm worker during the harvest. But it happens in all industries – when effective safeguards are not put in place.
While they may not rank high in the excitement factor – compared to all the electronics and flashiness – safety-related gifts can do much more than provide entertainment. They could make the difference between life and death.
Municipal workers face many different hazards – and now their supervisors in BC have a new program to help keep them safe.
A engineering firm encourages its 6000 workers to report every incident and near-miss in an online “learnings database.”
A forestry worker was on his way to pick up his freshly sharpened saw – ready to take it out for a new land clearing contract. He said his company inspected each saw at the beginning of a job – to be sure it was sharp and properly maintained, with all safety features in working order.
A new policy in BC outlines employers’ responsibility to their own employees and others on their worksites. Companies like Golder and Associates recognize this responsibility – and they have a plan.
Twenty-five percent of all motor vehicle crashes each year in BC can be attributed to distracted driving. Cell phones and other wireless devices are the number one cause of these distractions. WorkSafeBC, ICBC, the RCMP, and other road safety partners recently launched their annual campaign against distracted driving aims to raise awareness of these facts.
When Mike Rousselle was electrocuted on the job, he was lucky to still be alive – but life would never be the same.
A new, free app from NIOSH uses a multimodal indicator to help users adjust straight and extension ladders to the correct angle – which, in case you don’t know already, is 75.5 degrees (also known as the 4:1 ratio).
