Safety Meeting Toolbox Topics and Tailgate Talks
You decide to go to a football game. You settle in your seat equipped with a hot dog and your favorite beverage. You look down on the fi eld and see some of the players are playing without helmets. You notice others are not wearing shoulder pads, and some are not wearing either. What's the game plan here?
Our sense of sight may be one of our most treasured senses. Every year too many workers throughout the United States will suffer eye injuries eliminating their precious gift of sight. The sad reality is more than 90 percent of all eye injuries are preventable by eliminating hazards and wearing appropriate eye protection.
Have you ever said that was close!, or I could have been hurt. If the answer is yes, you probably were involved in a near-miss incident. Sometimes these incidents also are called near-hits or close calls, but these seemingly lucky breaks, with no injuries or property damage, often go unreported and soon are forgotten.
Cell phone use has expanded into every activity in our lives, from emergency communication to picking products from a grocery shelf. It sometimes seems people have no idea what to do with a spare moment other than make a cell phone call.
Many workplace injuries occur from the improper use of a common workplace tool known as the utility knife. Employees use utility knives to cut open boxes, tear away shrink-wrap from packages, cut drywall, and open bags. They are located in about every facet of the work environment, including construction, industry, restaurants and shipping departments.