Articles Tagged with ''injury prevention''

The can’t miss safety conference of 2018 today announced a new event: The Leadership Summit. This year, the Leadership Summit will focus on one of today’s most elusive and critical safety issues: serious injuries and fatality (SIF) prevention. Most recent data show a 7% increase in SIF events, even as overall injury numbers continue to decline.

A manufacturer of storage tanks and pressure vessels for the petrochemical, paper, and energy industries sharply reduced its recordable injury rate after reaching out to OSHA’s On-Site Consultation Program to help it identify and reduce workplace hazards. James Machine Works, LLC (JMW), which has been family owned for three generations, has grown from three to 160 employees since it was founded in 1927.

After five years in development, a new standard that provides a framework for improving employee safety, reducing workplace risks and creating better, safer working conditions, all over the world has been approved by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). ISO 45001 Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems, which was developed with support from the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE), is a voluntary consensus standard intended to help combat the global toll of work-related fatalities, which currently number about 7,600 a year.

If you have not determined available clearance below the working surface and calculated your TFD properly, it may still be possible to be seriously or fatally injured in the event of a fall.

In a move that surprised and pleased food and worker safety advocates, the USDA has denied a bid by the U.S. poultry industry to allow inspection lines to speed up. It was the second defeat for the National Chicken Council (NCC), which had attempted to get the limit raised under the Obama administration.

The Big toe, great toe, or the medical term "hallux"-whatever you call that first toe of yours - it's an important digit you don't want to injure, because it could turn out to be a bigger problem than you think.

If you can't stand on one foot for a minute, you have company. Here's why you should care. If you are over 50, stop what you are doing right now and take a little test: See if you can stand on one foot for a full minute.

A foot injury is, according to the Comp Pinkbook, the eighth most common workers’ compensation injury in Maryland. (The Comp Pinkbook represented a study of over a quarter million comp claims that had some kind of permanency award from the period of 1/1/11 to 6/30/12. The book is for sale at Amazon.com.)