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Using ceiling lifts to transfer, reposition, and turn clients reduces injuries. Sometimes though, even when lifts are available, they're not always used. This video challenges the seven most common reasons health care workers give for not using ceiling lifts. Source : http://www2.worksafebc.com/Publications/Multimedia/Videos.asp?ReportID=37077
Vous pouvez consulter les actes du Colloque de l'ASSTSAS 2013. Le colloque avait pour thème : « Regard global sur la prévention : pour mieux y voir ! » Source : http://www.asstsas.qc.ca/evenements/colloque-asstsas/colloque-2013-actes-du-colloque.html
Le 29 avril dernier, l'Agence européenne pour la sécurité et la santé au travail (EU-Osha) organisait la onzième édition des "Prix des bonnes pratiques". Ce concours mettant en lice plusieurs centaines d'entreprises de toutes tailles issues de 29 pays récompensait, cette année, les meilleurs exemples de collaboration entre patrons et employés en matière de prévention des risques. Les lauréats de cette édition, issus de secteurs très divers (soins de santé, commerce de détail...
Improved illumination in underground mines could be a key to reducing the second leading accident class of nonfatal lost-time injuries—slips, trips, and falls. While past research efforts have focused on such factors as cost, battery life, and miner preference, NIOSH’s latest illumination research takes a more modern approach—conducting experiments to assess human visual performance in simulated mining environments and using the experimental results to design improved illumination technologies. Source : http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/mining/features/IlluminationFeature.html
Mobile Elevated Work Platforms (MEWPs) are commonly used across all industrial sectors by a whole variety of trades, including mechanical and electrical contractors, and painters and decorators, as a safe, temporary method of working at height. There is a large range of MEWPs on the market and their controls and functionality varies depending on the category, manufacturer, model and size of machine. As their popularity and range of applications has grown, concerns have emerged about trapping/crushing accidents involving MEWPs. This report identifies accidents involving MEWPs and analyses common...
The theatre work environment is a very hazardous place, and we continually put our hands at risk: •Stage rigging has heavy counterweights to handle, ropes to pull, and wire rope ends that may not be properly seized. •Stage Lighting Instruments can be very hot and burn you. •Moving platforms and wood can expose you to splinters. •Metal parts can have sharp edges. •Dry Ice used for atmospheric effects can super-cool your skin and kill it (ice burns). •Shop chemicals can burn the skin or accelerate the development of skin diseases / cancers. •Even non-hazardous grime...
The dangers of the quartz halogen work light are well known: They can heat up to more than 570 degrees Fahrenheit, hot enough to ignite paper and wood. The 500W quartz halogen portable work light is everywhere, and why not? They are cheap, easily moved, and they put out a lot of light to help you work in an area. And while they come in a couple of different styles (on tripods, floor stands, or magnet mounts), at their core they are all the same: dangerous tools that harm workers, start fires, and set off explosions. In our experience working with contractors, electricians, and plant workers, we...
Drivers' response times were just as delayed and their performance just as affected by it as by standard texting, the Texas A&M Transportation Institute found. A new study confirms voice-to-text technology is just as distracting for drivers as standard texting, meaning it offers no real safety advantage. The study was sponsored by the Southwest Region University Transportation Center and conducted by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute, which released it April 23. Source : http://ohsonline.com/articles/2013/04/24/voice-to-text-technology.aspx VoiceTo-Ttext Study : http://vimeo.com...
With tourism and hospitality representing the largest economic sector in the world,1 and more than 4.8 million rooms in accommodation establishments in the USA alone,2 hotel cleaners comprise a significant occupational segment. Regardless of geographic variation, hotel cleaners are predominantly women, immigrants and minorities working under adverse conditions such as long hours, ergonomic strain, chemical exposure, poor pay, low job control, job insecurity and a wide array of other physical and mental health risks.3–5 Such exposure has produced disproportionately high health disparities...
L'organisme suisse de prévention Suva propose une série de vidéos et de ressources interactives destinées à sensibiliser les salariés sur les risques liés à l'utilisation des machines à bois (scies, dégauchisseuse, toupie...). Un programme d'exercice permet aussi aux opérateurs de tester leurs connaissances sur les mesures et les réglages de sécurité de ces équipements. Source : http://www.suva.ch/fr/startseite-suva/service-suva/lernprogramme-suva/holzbearbeitung-suva.htm?WT.seg_1...
Générées par de multiples applications industrielles, les champs électromagnétiques sont susceptibles d'altérer la santé des travailleurs exposés. Afin d'aider les entreprises à évaluer et à prévenir ces risques, l'INRS publie en coopération avec l'INERIS une nouvelle brochure à visée opérationnelle (de référence ED 6136). Source : http://www.inrs.fr/accueil/header/actualites/brochure-risque-champ-electromagnetique.html
La dernière édition du magazine Actsafe est disponible, elle porte sur les sujets suivants: No Expiry on Aerial Lift Training Tweet for Sweet Swag April 28: 149 Families Mourn Two New Motion Picture Safety Factsheets: Set-up and Use of Large Tents and Working Alone North American Occupational Safety and Health (NAOSH) Week Source : http://www.actsafe.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/AS_newsletter_V4No2_small.pdf
Les préoccupations environnementales ont généré une croissance rapide des emplois « verts », mais une évaluation insuffisante des risques posés par ces nouvelles technologies et processus pour la santé et la sécurité des travailleurs. Avec le projet Prévoyance, l'Agence Européenne pour la sécurité et la santé au travail (EU-OSHA) a pour objectif d'identifier les risques nouveaux et émergents de l'économie verte. En effet, les emplois verts sont susceptibles d'engendrer...
A new study published today in the scientific journal Occupational Medicine has found that those who experience needlestick injuries can suffer persistent and substantial psychiatric illness or depression. Needlestick or ‘sharps’ injuries are a daily risk to nurses, medical and health ancillary workers. The physical health effects of a needlestick injury are well known but this new research has demonstrated the mental health consequences of sharps injuries. The researchers found that those affected suffered psychiatric trauma that is similar in severity to trauma caused by other events...
In-vehicle monitoring (black box) technology is rapidly increasing in the UK, with many different forms of this technology now available. Essentially it monitors how, when and where a vehicle is being driven, records the data and provide an analysis as feedback to the driver and/or other parties. Some also provide in-vehicle alerts if pre-set parameters are exceeded (for example, hard acceleration). The driving behaviours that are monitored are ones that influence the likelihood of the driver crashing (for example, speed) or the severity of the crash (for example, seat belt use). These are proxies...
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