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Every day, more than 9,000 workers suffer a serious job-related injury. Implementing a good safety meeting program will prevent injuries and save lives.
Review the lessons learned from this fatal ladder accident at your next safety meeting as you review fall hazard risks with your crews.
Extensible and Articulating Boom Lifts are useful pieces of equipment with specialized features, uses, and also unique potential hazards.
OSHA has found 4 top areas of fatalities in construction including electrocutions, falls, caught-in hazards and struck-by hazards, which includes falling objects.
It's always a good idea to have a safety meeting on fall protection, fall hazards identification and fall prevention at least once every three months.
Moving machine parts have potential to cause severe workplace injuries. Any machine part, function, or process that may cause injury must be safeguarded.
The weekly safety meeting is a great time to remind heavy equipment operators to inspect their equipment daily and to test their back-up alarms regularly.
For some workers, it's simply a nuisance and hazard of working outdoors, for others, bees and insects can literally put them in a life or death situation.
If brown recluse spiders are present in your area of the country, please raise awareness with employees at least once a year during a safety meeting.
