As a service to our customers, we want to alert you to several severe injuries reported to Chesapeake Employers during the past few months. We also provide general guidelines (and safety links) to prevent these types of accidents from happening at your workplace.
Sanitation worker run over by trash truck
Hospitality worker falls down stairs
Roofer falls through temporary construction opening panels
1. shall furnish to each of his employees employment and a place of employment which are free from recognized hazards that are causing or are likely to cause death or serious physical harm to his employees;
Maryland's Occupational Safety & Health (MOSH) offers FREE safety training seminars covering everything from Accident Investigation to Construction Site Safety and Electrical Safety and Lockout/Tag out.
Starting on Jan. 1, 2015, employers will have to report the following to OSHA (MOSH in Maryland):
ALL work-related fatalities within 8 hours of finding out about it.
ALL work-related inpatient hospitalizations within 24 hours of learning about it.
ALL work-related amputations or loss of an eye within 24 hours of learning about it. Maryland employers can report using any of these two phone numbers: Maryland MOSH: 1-888-257-6674 OSHA National Reporting Hotline: 1-800-321-6742 OSHA will be developing a web based reporting process in the future.
Safety Flicks webpagefor Chesapeake Employers' policyholders with an eService account to then access and stream the full frame videos or request a DVD. Most safety videos produced by WUMBUS are 10-15 minutes in length.
NEW! Safety Flicks training videos now include an interactive Question & Answer Quiz feature.
This information and any noted recommendations are advisory only: Chesapeake Employers' Insurance Co. assumes no liability for identification or correction of conditions or hazards as the safety and health of employees remain the employer's responsibility. Not all foreseeable hazards or conditions in need of correction, and not all possible controls to address them, may be listed. Use of all or part of this safety information does not relieve employers of their responsibility to comply with all current and applicable local, state and/or federal laws, regulations, and codes. While the information herein is believed to be current as of the date published, the reader should rely upon the most current standards as laws, codes, and regulations are updated frequently.