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| Emergency Planning Checklist for College Students |
September is Campus Fire Safety Month and the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) is urging students and their parents to take the time to educate themselves on life-saving fire safety information. According to the NFPA, thousands of fires occur each year in both on- and off-campus housing, many of which could have been easily prevented.
“While parents often take the time to educate their children about home fire safety, a focus on fire safety while living away from home is often neglected,” said Lorraine Carli NFPA’s vice president of communications. “Whether students are living on-campus or in off-campus housing, it is important for these young adults to take an active role in fire prevention and safety.”
As safety professionals know, unexpected emergencies happen every day—at home, in the workplace and on campus. Being prepared can make all the difference.
If you or your employees have sons or daughters returning to college, here’s an emergency readiness checklist to share with them.
SafetySmart Online has several tools to help with emergency preparedness, including eLearning, posters, puzzles, images, articles for your company newsletters and safety talks, including this Emergency Preparedness One-Click Safety Meeting. (Subscription to SafetySmart Online is required to access this page.)
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| Earn Your Bachelor’s Degree in Occupational Safety Completely Online with Eastern Kentucky University |
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| This online degree program will equip you with the skills to handle personal and environmental risks within the workplace and teach you how to investigate, manage and prevent hazards and threats. Through EKU’s online program, you will have the flexibility to maintain your current lifestyle and career responsibilities while earning your bachelor’s degree. |
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| Give me a boost, will you? This will only take a minute… Who needs a ladder when you’ve got a willing co-worker? If the worker getting the boost topples, some nice big rocks below are waiting to inflict maximum damage. (Naval Safety Center photo) |
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| Use Insights from Study of Large Construction Project to Improve Your OHS Program |
Construction is one of the most hazardous industries. According to the Association of Workers’ Compensation Boards of Canada, the construction industry had 33,952 time-loss injuries and 234 fatalities in 2008. Maintaining safety in construction work is especially difficult on large projects with multiple contractors and large workforces. “Fast-track” projects that offer millions of dollars in bonuses for completing the work on time or early only heighten the risks.
The good news is that studying what has and hasn’t worked at construction sites enables us to draw lessons that we can apply to our workplaces—regardless of our industry. For example, CPWR the Center for Construction Research and Training and other safety experts recently conducted a study analyzing the effectiveness of the health and safety efforts undertaken at the largest private commercial construction project in the US. Here’s a rundown of the key points that you can take away from the study and use to better protect your own workers……
Read the rest of the article at OHSInsider.com. Subscription is required – Sign up for a Free 7 day Trial of OHS Insider.
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| US Highway Traffic Deaths at 60-Year Low |
Safer vehicles, better drivers, greater use of seatbelts and tough measures aimed at keeping alcohol and drug impaired drivers off the road are being credited for the lowest highway death toll in the US in six decades.
A weak economy that kept more people at home last year is also a factor in fewer people dying on US roads during 2009.
The US Transportation Department says 33,808 people lost their lives in traffic accidents in 2009—a 9.7 percent drop from 2008 and the lowest number recorded since 1950.
Forty-one US states reported fewer highway fatalities in 2009 than 2008. The rate of highway deaths fell to 1.13 deaths per 100 million miles in 2009. That’s also a record low.
While Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood calls 2009’s statistics “a landmark achievement for public health and safety,” he says there are still too many people being killed on US roads each year.
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