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Online safety training: Are workers tuned in...or texting?

August 12, 2019
Safety training is increasingly going online because companies and organizations find it more convenient for workers, more productive and cheaper to deliver. “It’s huge,” says Dan MacDonald, president of BIS Training Solutions, an Edmonton-area company that provides training software, as well as classroom and online training. “It’s probably a billion-dollar industry just in Canada.”
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How to stay active in warm weather

August 10, 2019
When the temperature goes up in the summer months, exercising outside can become challenging. Even heat-loving, sun-seeking exercisers can become overheated when the sun is beaming down in the heat of the day. Ample sunshine, longer days and warmer temperatures provide more opportunities for the whole family to get outside and get active!
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Mapping tool helps companies choose safe office equipment

August 7, 2019
Office workers are at high risk of experiencing musculoskeletal, or soft-tissue, disorders from repeated motion and awkward positions, such as sitting for long hours in front of a computer. Previous research has shown that safe and efficient, or ergonomic, office equipment can help reduce the risk, but obtaining the right equipment sometimes can be challenging.
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For Your Health & Wellness
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For Your Health & Wellness

August 5, 2019

Wellbeing in the workplace is increasingly important, with good employee health and happiness increasingly linked to better performance and productivity.


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Safety yesterday, today & tomorrow
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Safety yesterday, today & tomorrow

Construction of the Brooklyn Bridge took 14 years—and multiple lives
August 5, 2019

Fourteen tons of fireworks illuminated the New York night on May 24, 1883, to celebrate the completion of one of the greatest engineering feats of the Gilded Age—the Brooklyn Bridge.


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Recent OSHA Enforcement Cases
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Recent OSHA enforcement cases

August 5, 2019

OSHA has cited Northridge Construction Corp. for willful and serious violations of workplace safety standards at the company's headquarters in East Patchogue, New York. The company faces $224,620 in penalties.


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Safety tips for cyclists and pedestrians
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Safety tips for pedestrians and cyclists

The statistics
August 5, 2019

At some point in the day, everyone is a pedestrian. While pedestrian fatalities remain high, there was a 1.7% decrease in the number of pedestrians killed in traffic crashes in 2017, totaling 5,977 deaths, according to the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration.


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Using graphs to improve studies of work exposures in pregnancy

August 5, 2019
Workers often tend to be healthier and live longer than their unemployed peers, who may be unable to work due to illness or other issues. A recent study by NIOSH and a university partner aimed to understand how to account for these “healthy worker effects” in studies among pregnant workers.
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Poultry industry injuries decreasing

August 2, 2019
Although the injury and illness rate for poultry workers remains higher than for all private industry workers, new Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) show that the rate is trending downward. The BLS reported that there were approximately 230,000 poultry processing workers in 2016. That year, there was an incident rate of 4.2 nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses per 100 full-time equivalent workers; higher than the rate for all private industry workers, which was 2.9 per 100.
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