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Click here to download 90 different “hazard alerts”. They make excellent safety posters, so print them up and post them on your safety bulletin boards.
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Click here to download 75 different, totally free, full sized, color, safety posters from WorkSafeBC. These posters cover the following categories:
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Click here to download 42 free, full-sized, color safety posters from our favorite Canadian Province – Alberta!
If you’ve never been to the Calgary Stampede (aka the Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth) you might want to go this summer (July 5 – 14). I attended it in 2005 when they celebrated the 100th Anniversary of Alberta and will never forget it!
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At SafetyAwakenings.com we are continuously using the latest versions of all of the most popular desktop/laptop browsers (Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome). Every time we make a change to this website we have to test the change in each one of these browsers before we can approve it for release.
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Of course please feel free to continue to use whatever Internet browser you prefer. However, if you give Google Chrome a try, we’re betting that you don’t go back to your old browser.
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Industrial manufacturers once considered asbestos a miracle mineral. It was inexpensive, lightweight and extremely versatile; the thin fibers could add a fireproof element to almost any product.
As a result, companies made asbestos-laced products throughout most of the 20th century. Everything from factory equipment to industrial materials and consumer products contained the fibers. Even as manufacturers learned about the health risks associated with asbestos, they continued to source it for their products.
Workplaces across the nation purchased these products, often without any warnings about the health complications that could occur if the asbestos became airborne. And because the products themselves were designed for use in heavy construction and industrial processes, it was surprisingly easy for the fibers to enter the air.
Workers who cleaned machines, repaired mechanical parts or handled construction work on the facilities could inadvertently disturb the fibers. And once airborne, the asbestos could contaminate the entire workplace. Anyone who came into contact with the asbestos then faced an elevated risk for occupational illnesses such as lung cancer, mesothelioma or asbestosis. Once diagnosed with mesothelioma cancer, the life expectancy is usually only up to one year.
Risks Remain
In the last few decades, several occupational safety organizations have enacted measures to reduce these risks. However, that doesn’t mean that they’re completely gone.
Many workers in a variety of mostly blue-collar occupations still encounter asbestos hazards at their work-sites. When they’re left alone, they’re not a health hazard. Unfortunately, though, they’re not always labeled with warnings, and workers may not be able to identify them before they handle them.
Below, we explain the five biggest asbestos threats in current working environments:
These products (and other similar materials) may be present in thousands of workplaces across the nation. However, with proper management, workers can avoid exposure hazards (and the related occupational illnesses). The following five tips can help prevent industrial asbestos exposure:
To learn more about keeping yourself – and your workplace – safe from asbestos hazards, visit The Mesothelioma Center for practical, up-to-date advice.
This article was written and submitted to Safety Awakenings by Faith Franz. Faith is a researcher and writer for The Mesothelioma Center. She advocates for alternative medicine and encourages patients to explore all of their treatment options.
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Below is our “Safety App of the Week”. These weekly features are published every Monday. New apps are tested on Apple iPads and rated from ♥ to ♥♥♥♥♥ (♥♥♥♥♥ is the best). Prior app of the week articles are archived here.
Job Safety Analysis (JSA) iPad
Official Description
“Are you a Business Manager, Owner or Safety Personnel that sees the benefit of reducing JSA paperwork to keep your people safe? Are you looking for ways to increase efficiency throughout your business, through a JSA?
Here at Team Solutions Training (TST) our Mission is to provide “deliberately different” training and cutting edge technologies to help save more lives and increase productivity.
We have witnessed first hand the inefficiencies and negativity associated with completing a Job Safety Analysis (JSA). The Managing Director, Kym Steer, has spent years working and training top clientele in Risk Management has seen first hand the pitfalls and successes of Job Safety Analysis (JSA).
The “TST Job Safety Analysis (JSA)” App is an Innovative new way to complete JSAs and has been designed with the ability to:
- Create your own JSAs with easy to use menus.
- Use the pre-filled options to complete it faster and spend the time reviewing rather than writing.
- Use the clear Risk Matrix that’s fun to play with to enable concentration for calculating risk.
- Take photos of Hazards & Risks.
- Save time in the field.
- GPS tag your location for each and every JSA.”1
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¹ Descriptions courtesy of Apple Inc.
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Today we received notice from the developer of our favorite sound measurement app (SPLnFFT) saying that they have made two major improvements in their app.
Today we uploaded the app’s update and successfully tested it up to 114 decibels. We’re sure it can record higher noise levels (as claimed) but at this time we only had the ability to test up to 114 decibels We have now upgraded the overall rating of this app from ♥♥♥♥ to ♥♥♥♥♥!
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A few years ago I was an EHS manager at a company that had a worker violence incident that put one employee in the hospital. A supervisor in his late 50′s fired a 20 year old employee. The supervisor was loud and demeaning when firing the employee.
The younger employee went home, got drunk, returned to the workplace and beat up the supervisor who had fired him. The supervisor was seriously hurt, taken to the local hospital, and eventually recovered.
In the ASSE’s January 2013 Professional Safety magazine, is an article written by lawyer Mark A. Lies II entitled “Dealing With A Hostile Employee: Avoiding Workplace Violence“. This article is designed to help employers prevent the type of workplace incident that I just described. This article addresses:
Please check out this excellent article. When you are at the ASSE’s website, please consider becoming a member of this popular safety society.
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The NASP (National Association of Safety Professionals) has established “Eight Principles of a Safe Workplace”. It’s well written and represents a credo that all safety professionals should strive to follow.
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