Cleaning out our bookmark files, we came upon an assortment of health and safety resources that we thought we'd pass along.
- You may face some unusual hazards on your job, but it is unlikely you face anything like this - yikes. We've mentioned the Naval Safety Center's Photos of the Week - well worth checking out if you haven't. Each week, there's a real world cringe-inducing photo of an on-the-job accident in the making. Here are a few recent photos that caught our eye: Potential Spill, Aisle 4; Occupation, Piano Wrestler; Well, At Least They Aren't Going to Break; and Look Out Below!
- Seabright Insurance Company has some really good online safety resources. In addition to an extensive library of materials for safety meetings, they also have a Superviors' Safety Library with dozens of articles and tools on various safety topics, from accident analysis and prevention to hiring practices and training. The site is well worth a bookmark.
- The University of Vermont's Environmental Safety program offers a Safety PowerPoint Presentation Library with hundreds of prepared presentations on various topics, including several in Spanish. The quality of the presentations range from quite excellent to a bit corny and dated. Nevertheless, a great resource.
- The United Transportation Union of Canada has a good page links to sleep and fatigue articles and resources encompassing such topics as extended work shifts, fatigue and transportation, sleep disorders, circadian rhythms and more.
- A Practical Guide to Hand Protection - in an article for EHS Today Joseph D. McGarry discusses various types of work gloves for various jobs and tasks.
- Nursing Home e-Tool from OSHA is designed to assist employers and employees in identifying and controlling the hazards associated with nursing homes and residential care facilities.
These are great safety resources and this "Insider" newsletter is a great resource that we actually look forward to getting. One other resource you could also mention is the ICE4SAFETY.COM website that offers safety managers/citizens access to free preparedness information, tools and materials that enhance worker personal preparedness in the event of an emergency (ICE). You can access the site at www.ice4safety.com Thank you!
The articles presented were an informative read. Especially interesting to me was the Supervisors Safety Library from Seabright Insurance ~ are not management and government representatives subject to drug and alcohol abuse? Why aren't they tested? Why isn't my Senator or Congressman, President and Judges subject to random drug/ alcohol testing? Don't they have issues in this area? Guess not, because this insurance company assumes that they don't and the government must assume that only worker bees have a problem. EVERYONE should be subject to random alcohol/drug tested, including the President of the United States of America and all legislative and judicial officials.