Farmers get further boost for safety, mobile vaccine clinics
- OSHA has renewed its funding for Bassett Healthcare Network’s Northeast Center for Occupational Health and Safety: Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing for five more years.
- These will be used to boost the safety and health of farming, forestry, and fishing industry workers by researching solutions for preventing and treating occupational injury and illness through 2027.
- NEC conducts research studying health and safety challenges faced by members of the agricultural community to propose, test, and implement solutions to evolving challenges.
- This research is shared with farmers for updates on safety equipment, training, respirator fit testing, and mobile vaccine clinics.
Ohio gets new OSHA facility
- The Cincinnati Council is selling off property for the construction of a new CDC facility
- The project will consolidate two OSHA facilities into one structure.
- The CDC will pay about $3 million for the city-owned property, which includes the cost of installing a new water main.
- Construction is now estimated to begin in late 2023.
Guidelines to keep pedestrians safe in warehouses
- Pedestrians have to be seen and feel safe when walking through warehouse areas.
- Warehouse pedestrian safety should be one of the top concerns for safety managers in the warehouse and logistics industries.
- Employees should always yield right of way to pedestrians and top and honk the horn at intersections and corners.
- Workers should also use flashing warning lights or backup alarms, use a spotter for blind spots and always look in the direction of travel.
Health care workers face most risks
- Hospital workers suffer nearly twice as many workplace-related illnesses and injuries as their counterparts in other industries, according to OSHA.
- Employees at hospitals are also the most vulnerable to suffering illnesses and injuries on the job.
- Nursing assistants suffer from lower back pain and other musculoskeletal injuries as a result of moving patients.
- The high-stress environment of health care facilities can lead to mistakes that result in injury.