Many of the above enacted and proposed laws greatly increase workplace fatality risk for children. Iowa law (SF 167), for example, will allow 14-year-olds to work in meat coolers and industrial laundries. Fourteen- and one-half year-olds (14.5) could drive themselves up to 50 miles to a...
Safety and SecurityDec 20, 2024 OSHA violations aren’t there to make your life difficult; they’re derived from hard-learned lessons and are meant to prevent further tragedy. Learn how to stay on OSHA’s good side and protect your employees from these top 10 safety violations. ...
they can result in serious consequences: the latest estimates from the U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics show approximately 20,000 serious injuries and 100 deaths per year in the U.S. related to a forklift.9These typically involve
340 million — that is the number of occupational accidents that occur every year — according to the International Labour Organisation. And approximately 6000 people succumb to their deaths every day due to work-related injuries. The grim situation reflected in this data has become a major c...
or into a pit. Eight died from electric shock. In all, there were 195 casualties in the steel mills in those twelve months, and these were just a portion of the total of 526 deaths from work accidents. In addition, there were 509 other accidents that sent men to the hospital, at leas...
In 2020, forklifts incidents accounted for 78 work-related deaths and 7,290 injuries requiring days away from work. Lack of education is part of the problem. According to OSHA, investigations into forklift-related deaths have determined that many workers aren't aware of the risks of operating ...
Hazard: While operating powered industrial trucks, approximately 95,000 employees are injured and 100 are killed per year. Forklift turnover represents a significant number of these fatalities. Solutions: All operators must be trained and certified to operate forklifts safely. Maintenance of haulage equ...
The real problem, and the cause of falling productivity-per-person year after year, is COST…something which seems never to be taken into account by the bean-counters in economics.Quadra Mar 29, 2017 at 11:00 am Wow so many comments already! Shouldn’t we be glad that Robots can do...
30. Give people the feeling that they will have an impact.Listen well. We received 29,000+ suggestion, near-miss, unsafe act and condition reports last year — an average of ten per person. Why? Because employees could see a process that assured 100 percent of their reports would be take...
Frustrated with the slow process of getting committees started and a lack of interest on the part of hourly personnel, one plant manager took matters into his own hands. He asked his EHS manager, “How many committees do we need?,” and personally walked the floor for two days soliciting ...