Preventing Eye Injury

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According to the NIOSH website (www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/eye/) about 2000 workers suffer a job related eye injury that requires medical treatment each and every day. Yes, that’s two thousand, not two hundred. “About one third of the injuries are treated in hospital emergency departments and more than 100 of these injuries result in one [...]

You don’t have to know it all!

The worldwide web has dramatically changed many things.
One of the biggest changes that we have witnessed since the inception of the web is a shift in how we learn.
Gone are the days of the central authority. We no longer tend to believe someone simply because they are “the expert”. Even doctors have noticed that their [...]

National Safety Council – “Make A Difference” in June

The National Safety Council (www.nsc.org) is planning to make June “Make a difference” month.
It is a month-long push to “prevent accidental injuries by encouraging safe and healthy behaviors” and by focusing primarily on the leading causes of preventable deaths.
Each one of the topics gets a week-long emphasis. The schedule for June is:

Week 1: June 2-6
Emergency [...]

Keeping Kids Safe around Water

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With the cost of gas being what it is and fear of even more increases coming, more and more people are opting for “Staycations” (Vacation at home) rather than driving or flying.
In light of this, retailers are targeting the backyard activities. They are projecting an increase of sales on backyard pools among [...]

Give your workers time to get used to the heat!

With the coming summer and the coming heat that always goes with it, we need to starting thinking and preparing for heat-related illnesses and fatalities.
Besides the obvious (like those precautions mentioned in yesterdays blog entry) there is also a lesser known precaution that most of us fail to consider.
In a May 19th post on the [...]

OSHA’s Job Hazard Analysis

How do you reduce accidents in your place of business (or even at home, for that matter)? How to you avoid injury or possibly even death?
OSHA’s 3071 is the best place to start.
It is their free manual, outlining the Job Hazard Analysis. You can download it for free at: http://www.osha.gov/Publications/osha3071.pdf
A short synopsis of the document [...]

Summer’s Almost Here!

It happens every year! The weather finally starts improving, the sun finally shows up and next thing you know we’re all out there with our pale skin forgetting that sun + pale skin = sunburn. Next thing you know we are miserable.
Summer weather actually brings four main safety issues:
1. Sunburn
Make sure that you put on [...]

OSHA National Emphasis Program (NEP)

OSHA has just announced their new National Emphasis Program (NEP) and it has to due with worker exposure risk to crystalline silica.
What this means, in a nutshell, is that they are going to do an all out blitz on enforcement including stepped up inspections and analysis of current working conditions to try to determine exposure levels.
Continued, [...]

Hello world!

This is a new blog started by National Safety, Inc.
It is intended to provide a place to discuss, post and interact on safety related issues. Please feel free to give us your ideas, feedback and comments.
It is our hope that this blog will grow to encompass the different areas of safety that matter to you [...]