This month’s SPS Safety Focus is all about Cranes & Hoisting. Always take precautions when working around cranes.
Working with and around suspended loads requires a full understanding of the hazards they present.
Employees should always take precautions before moving a suspended load. Following these six steps helps to prevent potentially fatal accidents.
Hazardous chemical exposure can cause, or contribute to many serious health effects such as heart disease, kidney and lung damage, sterility, cancer, burns, and skin rashes. Some chemicals may also be safety hazards and have the potential to cause fire, explosions, and other serious accidents. Exposure to chemicals poses a serious problem for both employers and their workers.
OSHA’s Hazard Communication Standard states that labels must be prominently displayed on all containers of hazardous chemicals in the workplace, and MSDS’s are readily available in the work area throughout each work shift.
OSHA revised their Hazard Communication Standard to align with the international “Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals”, commonly referred to as “GHS”. As a result, manufacturers and distributors of hazards chemicals and products must begin standardizing their container labels to display all of the following information.
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This month’s SPS Safety Focus is all about electrical and lock out/tag out. Did you know an extension cord looks harmless, but most extension cords carry 110 volts of electricity, and 110 volts can kill.
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This month’s SPS Safety Focus is all about traffic control.
Work zones on roadways are increasingly dangerous places, both for workers and for those traveling through them. Using barricades and warning devices at job sites directs traffic flow and helps to ensure the safety of motorists and workers.
Hi-viz garments are required for ALL workers within the right-of-way. Here are some facts about what makes something “hi-viz”.
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This month’s SPS Safety Focus is all about ladders.
Do you know there’s a killer on the job that you probably meet face-to-face every day? The common, ordinary ladder. Ladders are involved in many accidents, some of which are fatal. Your life literally can depend on knowing how to inspect, use, and care for this tool.
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This month’s SPS Safety Focus is all about Fall Protection.
Falls from one level to another are among the leading causes of severe injuries and deaths among workers in the United States. And to add insult to injury, no pun intended, many workers who were injured or killed were wearing a full body harness as part of a personal fall arrest system, but their full body harness was not properly worn or adjusted, and it failed to work.
You’ve got your full body harness on and properly adjusted, and you’ve attached the proper end of your lanyard to the back D-ring on your harness. The next step is to attach the other end of your lanyard to an anchor point. But selecting the wrong anchor point could have some painful, or even deadly, ramifications. That means you must put some serious thought put into what you hook off to with your lanyard.
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This month’s SPS Safety Focus is all about respiratory protection.
A respirator is a device that protects you from inhaling dangerous substances, such as chemicals and infectious particles. Respirators are among the most important pieces of protective equipment for working in hazardous environments. Selecting the right respirator requires an assessment of all the workplace operations, processes or environments that may create a respiratory hazard. The identity of the hazard and its airborne concentrations need to be determined before choosing a respirator.
In general, there are two types of respirators Air Purifying and Supplied Air. Respirators work by either filtering particles from the air, chemically cleaning (purifying) the air, or supplying clean air from an outside source.
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