| Ear: |
Practice Safety |
Why should you wear hearing protection? When should you? How do you choose the right protection for you? |
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Rolling the Dice |
What can you do to reduce your chances of hearing loss? |
| Eye: |
Anatomy of an Incident |
Improper use of sander and failure to use proper eye protection results in permanent damage to eye. |
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Failure to use proper eye protection results in eye injury. |
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Practice Safety |
Consider the type work you will be doing and choose the right eye protection for you. |
| Clothing: |
Anatomy of an Incident |
Electrical arc froma fuse box ignites supervisors clothing. |
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Employees become ill when incorrect assumptions are made about the contents of a tank they are cleaning. |
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An electrical arc burns two employees as they are working on a deenergized switch board |
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The clothing of an employee gets caught on a spindle and results in injury |
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An inexperienced employee is fatally wounded when an electrical fault occurs and ignites his clothing |
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An employee's clothes become caught in an unguarded pulley |
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Serious injuries occur when unguarded shaft catches coat and pulls employee toward fan. |
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Wrist amputation in unguarded screw conveyor while cleaning. |
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Failure to asses the pesticide hazard and wear proper PPE sends workers to the hospital. |
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Practice Safety |
Prepare for various workplace hazards by choosing the proper protective clothing |
| Hand: |
Anatomy of an Incident |
Employee injures hand when wrench slips |
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A wire injures an employee's finger while he is operating a power tool |
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A few examples showing the dangers of wearing rings during various work activities |
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Employee looses fingers when placing hand under guard. |
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Employee seriously burned when hot tar contacts unprotected hands |
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Fingers Crushed when cleaning cloth and hand pulled into nip point. |
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Employees glove caught in lathe amputating tips of fingers. |
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Tip of thumb amputated when glove caught in jointer. |
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Failure to asses the pesticide hazard and wear proper PPE sends workers to the hospital. |
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Practice Safety |
Choose the right type of hand protection for your particular job |
| Head: |
Anatomy of an Incident |
Employee received head injury when not wearing a hard hat |
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Practice Safety |
Make protecting your head a top priority |
| Foot: |
Anatomy of an Incident |
Employee is hospitalized when chemicals from a hazardous waste site enter his shoes |
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Fork lift drops load and crushes foot. |
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Employee not using fall protection and wearing worn out shoes slips off roof to his death. |
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Practice Safety |
Select the right pair of safety shoes for the job at hand |
| Respiratory: |
Anatomy of an Incident |
While cleaning up a hazardous material spill, workers become ill |
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An employee dies of asphyxia after inhaling chemical vapors, mist and/or dust. |
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An employee dies after his clean breathing air supply is replaced with nitrogen |
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Incorrect labeling of two compressed gas lines results in a worker being asphyxiated |
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Failure to asses the pesticide hazard and wear proper PPE sends workers to the hospital. |
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Practice Safety |
Choose the right type of respiratory protection for the hazard |
