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Modern safety management goes beyond covering traditional workplace accidents to now being equally concerned with illnesses caused on and even off the job. This section will explain what you need to know to avoid both injuries and illnesses, and to track your progress in reaching this goal.
Exercise is an important part of back safety. Even moderate amounts of exercise can help prevent painful back injuries at the workplace and at home. When you think about back safety, think about back conditioning. Back conditioning is easy to do and will help to strengthen employees’ backs as well as improve flexibility. Strength and […]
A key issue currently on NIOSH’s agenda is the health and safety implications of an aging workforce. With Baby Boomers now into their sixties, U.S. business is faced with 77 to 80 million people getting toward the end of their working careers. Are all these older workers a burden or benefit to employers? It’s a […]
Like OSHA, NIOSH celebrates its 40 birthday this year. What has NIOSH accomplished, and how has it helped improve safety? We asked its director John Howard. The mission of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is “to generate new knowledge in the field of occupational safety and health and to transfer that […]
Ouch — those repetitive stress injuries hurt, not only the worker, but the corporate pocketbook as well. A typical employer can pay between $35,000 to $75,000 for a single carpal tunnel case. If surgery doesn’t cure it, the payout can reach $150,000 to $200,000! Does that mean you need to throw money at the problem […]
Are your first-aid kits at work just dust collectors, stored on a shelf and forgotten? Like any piece of equipment, they need maintenance from time to time. Use this checklist to make sure your first-aid kits will be ready when you need them: Has it been over a year since the first-aid kits were inspected? […]
Shoulders are all too easily injured. And once they are, recovery might be slow, putting a worker out of action and creating production hassles. Here are some tips for preventing these injuries. The shoulder is a ball-and-socket joint and is, in fact, the most mobile joint in the body, allowing 230 degrees of motion vertically […]
According to NIOSH, knee injuries are not only painful and debilitating, they’re also costly, averaging more than $13,000 each. Are any of your employees at risk? Prepatellar bursitis, a painful swelling of the fluid sack over the kneecap, is a common work-related injury, especially among those who spend prolonged periods kneeling, squatting, crouching, or working […]
Summer is only a couple of weeks away and the temperatures are rising. Whether your employees get mugged by scorchers on or off the job, they need to know how to prevent health problems caused by high temperatures. To respond to the heat hazards of summer, OSHA advises employers to: Provide heat stress training to […]
Heat can be a real danger for workers during the summer, especially those who work outdoors. Heat illness should be viewed as a serious health problem—one that can even be fatal. For many people, summer heat is uncomfortable. But for some it can be down right dangerous. That’s why OSHA is currently promoting a national […]
Bending, stooping, kneeling, or squatting can put a lot of stress on workers’ backs and lead to costly lost workday injuries. Find out what NIOSH recommends for preventing incidents and injuries The back safety problem and solutions offered here come from NIOSH’s Simple Solutions: Ergonomics for Construction Workers. But the same principles apply to many […]