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January 2015

INJURY ALERTS!

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.

  1. Sanitation worker run over by trash truck
  2. Hospitality worker falls down stairs
  3. Roofer falls through temporary construction opening panels
  4. Marina worker falls from scaffolding


 (a) Each employer -

 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;



More than 25 different Chesapeake Employers' safety posters are back in stock and available at no additional cost.  

 

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.


IMPORTANT OSHA UPDATES
Effective 1/1/2015

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.

New Safety Flicks Video Titles Announced

(By WUMBUS)

  • Blink! A Practical Approach to Workplace Stretching
  • A Better Way to Lift
  • The Safe Operation and Use of Ladders
  • Backing Accident Prevention for the Sanitation Driver
  • Route Safety for the Sanitation Driver
  • Understanding and Safely Using Fall Protection
  • Hazard Communication Safety
  • Benzene Safety
  • Laboratory Safety
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    Wumbus website to preview only the new video titles.

    Safety Flicks webpage
     for 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.





     Chesapeake Employers' Insurance Company | (410) 494-2023 | [email protected] | www.ceiwc.com
    8722 Loch Raven Blvd. Towson, MD 21286