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Safety
Solutions Monthly eNews for May 2009
Welcome to Safety Solutions, the e-newsletter
that provides you with
ideas and information you can put to use in your workplace. Each
month,
Safety Solutions delivers articles focused on improving
occupational
safety and health programs, controlling costs and keeping
employees safe
and healthy at work and at home.
1. Sandy Says: I Challenge You to Apply for
America's Safest Companies
Over 100 companies have been honored as America's Safest Companies.
Although they vary in industry, size, hazards and location, they all
have a couple of things in common: An understanding and appreciation for
the value of safety and a fierce pride in what they do.
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eNEWSLETTER
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Finding the right gas detector is not difficult. The hard part is
deciding what to do about alarm conditions in your facility, and how to
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iNet™ solves common gas detection problems. It keeps people safe
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4. Most Employers Underestimate Full Costs of
Employee Health on Productivity
Poor health among workers is far costlier to U.S. employers than
they realize, impacting their profitability and undercutting the
nation's overall productivity. A recent multi-employer study published
in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine indicates that
the costs of poor health are much greater for employers than medical and
pharmaceutical spending alone.
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than traditional oil-based polypropylene sorbents. Visit www.bradyid.com/spc for a free sample pack and to
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FEATURED LINKS
Do your
managers and supervisors coach safety? Give them the ability
and tools to focus workers on the most effective accident-prevention
strategies in this 1-day workshop. ProAct Safety, Inc.
Market-leading Workrite® manufactures superior
Flame-Resistant Apparel in the
widest assortment of styles, colors, sizes,
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Welcome to Coastal's Hazard Recognition Challenge! How many hazards do you miss in a day? If
you’ve been on the job a while, it’s probably more than
you think. Sharpen up your hazard recognition skills with this short
quiz. We’ll have a drawing of everyone who scores 100% and give
one lucky winner a free copy of our new DVD hazard recognition training
program Just Another Day.
Just Another Day is Coastal’s newest
hazard recognition training DVD developed especially for the
experienced worker. Here's a sneak peek at questions
1&2.
1. Opening two file drawers in a tall cabinet at the same time
is
a. Risky
b. Safe
2. If someone asks to have a piece of machinery you are
operating shut down, there is no need to lock or tag it.
Don't miss the FREEEHS WebExpo & Conference on Thursday, May 14.
This
all day event will bring you and your team the advantages of a
traditional safety and health trade show without any of the travel
cost!
Attend these educational Webinars: 10:00 EDT- Putting VPP Principles into Practice; Leading with Zero
Incident Techniques
Keynote speaker David G. Lynn, CSP, Senior Program
Manager with the
Corporate Health, Safety, and Environmental department at the Fluor
Corporation, will discuss how to take VPP principles and put them into
practice using Zero Incident techniques by emphasizing five strategic
principles that will give your safety program purpose and drive a
culture that believes all injuries are preventable.
1:00 EDT - OSHA Citations and Proposed Penalties:
How to Beat the Rap
Attorney Michael T. Taylor of Arent Fox LLP, Washington, D.C., advises
taking a proactive approach to safety and health to not only ensure a
safer workplace, but help employers mount a successful defense in
response to any proposed OSHA citations and penalties.
Arc
Flash Safety Date: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 Time: 2:00pm ET / 11:00am PT Sponsored by:Aramark Do you want your employees to be safe from injuries caused by
electrical incidents? This Webinar offers guidance on how OSHA and
NFPA 70E, the National Electrical Code, can help you achieve that
goal. Register Today!
PODCAST
Changing the Safety Culture Sponsored by: ProAct Safety
Rudy Hagen, the director of strategic planning for global health and
safety at Georgia-Pacific, describes why the company decided to
implement behavior-based safety in its facilities and how culture
assessment and other tools helped decrease injuries, increase employee
ownership and improve company safety culture. Download or Listen Here.
SafetyLive TV
Tune in daily to see company video programs, product demonstrations,
reports from industry trade shows and interviews with newsmakers.
Have a video to share? Click HERE to find out how to get your video
on SafetyLive TV!
Ergonomics and Productivity Sponsored by:Ansell Presented By: Dr. Mike Zedalis, Senior VP
Science & Technology, Ansell Find out how the right ergonomic PPE not only keeps workers
safe, but helps employers meet production and quality goals.
Some of the best ergonomic thinkers in the country explore the
science of ergonomics and how ergonomics can be used to not only keep
workers from being injured, but improve productivity as well. Listen Today!
Understanding NFPA 70E
and the Arc Flash Hazard Sponsored by:Westex, Inc. Presented by: Scott M. Margolin, International
Technical Director, Westex
During this webinar, attendees learned about the four primary
subjects essential to understanding, and protecting against, the arc
flash hazard in an industrial workplace. Listen Today!
The Courage to Actively Care Sponsored by:Coastal
During this webinar, Dr. Geller discussed Interpersonal
Intervention
and Courage, How Can Courage Be Encouraged, and
Culture and The Courage
To Actively Care. He examined excuses and barriers given for
the
lack of large-scale application of effective interpersonal
interventions. Listen Today!
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