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5 Free Resources for National Safety Month!!!
June is National Safety Month and to celebrate we want to thank all of our awesome Safety Center members and supporters by offering some great FREE resources to support you in your safety efforts! Here are our top five free workplace safety tools. Happy National Safety Month everyone!
1. Safety Center DVD/Video Library (Free for members)
Free for all Safety Center members, Safety Center's DVD/Video library includes training videos across a wide array of industries including Construction, CPR/First Aid, Ergonomics, Fire/Disaster, Hazardous Materials, Heavy Equipment, Off the Job Safety, In the Office Safety, and specific hazards including confined space, electrical, hand/power tools, lockout/tagout, welding, and more. Become a member today! safetycenter.org/workplace-safety/membership
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The Ten Basic Principles of Safety: Principle #2
A Safety Management Approach
In Dan Petersen's text, Safety Management: A Human Approach, he presented ten basic principles of safety that should be the foundation of all safety programs, the problem-solving structure (paradigm) from which all safety programs should build upon.
In last month's Inside Safety, we discussed principle #1: An unsafe act, an unsafe condition, an accident: these negative events are symptoms of something wrong in the management system.
In this month's Inside Safety, we will discuss principle #2: Certain sets of circumstances can be predicted to produce severe injuries. These circumstances can be identified and controlled. Circumstances include such things as:
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Mercury Rising: Heat Illness
As the summer approaches, it is imperative that workers who spend long periods of time outside or in hot environments stay safe and mindful of heat related illness. Adults on the job are not the only ones in danger of heat related illness. Children and the elderly have the highest risk of heat related illness. Stay aware while out enjoying summertime activities. You should also avoid leaving children and senior citizens sitting in cars outside during the sweltering summer months. Heat Related Illness on the Job Heat related illnesses run the gamut from uncomfortable to fatal. Thousands of employees become sick each year from heat related illness. In an OSHA/Dept. of Labor CDC study from 2012 there were 31 cases of documented heat related worker deaths and 4,120 documented heat related worker illnesses. A large percentage of worker fatalities occurred within the first three days of working on the job. In all cases of heat related worker deaths, acclimatizing programs were found to be incomplete or absent and no provision was made for acclimatizing new workers to the heat. OSHA recommends workers should gradually build up workloads and exposure to heat by taking frequent breaks for water and rest in shade or air conditioning. Continue Reading |
Ask Bob
Bob Lapidus, courtesy of IVES training group
Question
A student asked me if the load capacity of a forklift would increase on a forklift rated at 5,000 lbs at a load center of 24 inches if the load center was decreased? The example load center was at 12 inches.
Answer
No, the capacity of a forklift does not increase with a lesser load center distance. In theory, the ability of a lever to lift a load would increase as the load moves closer to the fulcrum but in reality, a forklift's capacity is engineered with respect to not only load center but the strength of all of the individual parts in the lifting mechanism like the forks, carriage, lifting chains, hydraulics, bearings and on and on it goes. Attempting to lift loads that exceed the maximum rated capacity places additional loads on all of these parts which could cause them to become damaged or fail.
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