Safety is serious business. Every job has its own unique set of safety risks and a safe and healthy workplace is where employees can work in a manner that benefits everyone. Making safety the first consideration is vital to reaching any objective of zero accidents at work and at home.
WorkSafetyOnline's Newsletters adopt these "Safety Vision" principles, highlighting numerous safety values. These informative Newsletters cover a whole host of subject matters offering many rules and guidelines to help ensure accidents are preventable.
Certain Newsletters cover individual hazards such as shift work lag, ergonomics, eye and face safety and hearing protection. As safety is often a condition of employment, accountability and responsibility for safety performance extends from the senior management team through to line managers, supervisors and workers and there is even a Newsletter showing how such an accountability program can turn safety awareness into a Profit Centre.
Introducing a "Safety Vision" program is important, as injury costs are often the organisation's largest expense. Nonetheless, all aspects of training employees to work safely are essential as the prevention of personal injuries is good for business.
List of Available Topics
120 - Safety Mission Statement.
121 - Ergonomics.
122 - Personal Problems Create Workplace Hazards.
128 - Habituation Can Lead to Lost Time Injury.
129 - Focusing on Ergonomics
130 - Your Role in Damage Control
131 - Damage Control Plan.
132 - Hearing Protection Program.
133 - Reliability, Safety, and a Burned out Light Bulb.
134 - Workplace Stress.
135 - Driving Hazards.
136 - Protecting the Micro-Environment.
137 - Paramedics.
138 - Drugs in the Workplace.
139 - Employees Fitness.
140 - Maintenance.
141 - Back Injury.
142 - Sexual Harassment.
143 - Accident Prevention.
144 - Strain Injuries.
145 - Aggression in the Workplace.
147 - Near Misses.
148 - Back Safety.
149 - Stretching and Ergonomics.
150 - Electrical Safety.
151 - Hearing Protection.
152 - The Heimlich.
153 - Slips, Trips and Falls.
154 - Safety Orientation.
155 - Entropy: Order Breaks Down Over Time.
156 - Complacency Kills.
157 - Safety Responsibility.
158 - Managing Accident Prevention
159 - The Costs of Injuries.
160 - Chemicals Warning Labels.
161 - Actively Caring Behavior.
162 - Protection from UV Radiation.
163 - Electrical Safety.
164 - Alcohol Related Injuries.
165 - Personal Problems and Workplace Hazards.
166 - Safety Training and Awareness Program.
167 - Safety Mission Statement.
168 - Report all Safety Hazards & Minor Injuries.
169 - Ergonomics.
170 - Benchmarking.
171 - Safety Responsibility.
172 - Hidden Costs of Unintentional Injuries.
173 - Safety responsibility.
174 - Aggression in the workplace.
175 - Habituation can lead to lost time injuries.
176 - safety management.
177 - Drug and Alcohol Abuse.
178 - Entropy: Order Breaks Down Over Time.
179 – Accident prevention.
180 – Back Injury
181 - Sexual Harassment.
182 – Personal Responsibility
183 – NIOSH Lifting Equation
184 – Work Place Agression
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186 – A Healthy Back Is A Healthy Lifestyle
187 – Stretching Promotes Safety
188 – Assume Its Alive
189 – Now Hear This (PPE)