Head to Toe Protection: Essentials of PPE in the Construction Industry
Personal Protective Equipment – or PPE – is clothing and gear designed to protect the wearer from the injuries or infections that they risk when working around various workplace hazards. PPE can range from specialist More...
OSHA: Most Common Safety Violations Resulting in Injury or Death
The truth of the matter is that everyone must work and that some professions are simply more dangerous than others. Few who weren’t born into the lap of luxury can afford to sit back and refuse to work because More...
How to Stay Safe at Work
Staying safe at work means having an employer and workplace you can rely on to create a healthy and safe space for you, as legally required. This means your workplace needs an authorised WHS (Workplace Health & More...
6 Steps to Take as an Employer to Reduce the Risk of Accidents in the Workplace
Even the most thorough and attentive employers can’t avoid all accidents in the workplace; some injuries simply cannot be foreseen in any way. Yet you will be less likely to form a bad relationship with employees More...
5 Handy Tips To Avoid Car Accidents
Driving on rough terrains and in bad weather conditions can be a bit challenging. Therefore, it’s important to take a few precautionary measures before you hit the road to ensure safety of all the passengers. More...
Ways You Can Improve Your Family’s Safety
Safety is paramount and keeping you, and your family safe needs to be your number one priority. You need to identify hazards and do your very best to avoid them. Hazards come in all shapes and sizes and can be anything More...
Things That Are Most Necessary To Have On a Construction Site
Construction sites are some of the busiest and most chaotic workplaces someone can find themselves in. There are a huge number of procedures and potential hazards people need to be aware of. When it comes to ensuring More...
Useful Tips on How to Prevent Electrical Shocks
It is perfectly safe for you to undertake electrical work in your home provided you take appropriate safety precautions that will ensure that you do not suffer an electrical shock. It is easy to assume that such More...
Grocery Store Case Highlights Slip-and-Fall Dangers
Slips and falls are not always “accidents.” Instead, they result from the careless or reckless actions of property owners. The incident may lead to a premises liability lawsuit. What is an example of such a More...
The Liability Side Of The Future Of Transporation
If you’re a victim in a car accident, you may wonder if you should hire a lawyer to help you pay for your personal injuries or damage to your car. In some cases, it’s obvious that you deserve compensation because More...
How Factories and Industrial Companies can Improve Safety
Assembly and production are not safe industries, nor are they easy ones. Safety will always be an issue. However, there are ways to reduce the occurrences of issues. One of those ways is by improving conditions More...
As More States Weigh New Laws for Animal Deaths Consider These Essential Tips for Pet Summer Safety
Issues surrounding animal safety in the summer has become such a significant problem that some states, including Michigan and 16 others, are in the process of passing or have already enacted legislation regarding More...
Jarrod Ditmars still on life support after spearfishing accident
A Florida man remains on life support after he was shot in the head with a spear gun, but his family says it doesn’t look like he’s going to survive. The spear remains lodged in Ditmars’ head as doctors More...
Seven Halloween Tips for Parents of Children with Asthma
Halloween should be scary in a fun way. But an asthma attack can take the fun out of the night and make the scare far too real. To keep this Halloween focused on tricks and treats, parents of kids with asthma More...
NFPA releases fire safety tips for Halloween, costume risks
Glowing jack-o-lanterns, festive decorations, spooky costumes – Halloween offers tons of festive fun, but it does come with hidden fire dangers that can be truly scary. Fortunately, by following some simple safety More...
Thanksgiving Safety Tips from ‘Duck Dynasty’ stars Jase Robertson and Uncle Si Robertson
Thanksgiving may be a great day to reflect and be grateful for the blessing in our lives, but it is also the day of the highest amount of cooking fires, according to the National Fire Protection Association. The More...
Philadelphia eye doctors offer safety tips for protecting your eyes during Halloween
It’s almost time to don your outfit for the 31st, but keep in mind some important safety tips, say doctors at Philadelphia’s Wills Eye Hospital, that may keep you from doing real harm to your eyes -potentially More...
Louisiana issues ‘Fact vs Fiction’ info on Naegleria fowleri after ameba confirmed in water system
Just one week after confirming the presence of the “brain-eating amoeba”, Naegleria fowleri, in the public water system in St. Bernard Parish, the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals (DHH) More...
Dispatch Radio: July 13, 2013 – Constance ‘Happy’ Dickey talks lyme disease, abortion in news, ‘Red 2’ film review
JULY 13 GUESTS Constance “Happy” Dickey, RN, President of MaineLyme.org, to discuss the new Maine Lyme disease law. More on the vote, read the story here NEWS ON LYME DISEASE – CLICK HERE Mike Smith, More...
Ophthalmologists give eye safety tips for the summertime
With summertime upon us, many people are spending more time outdoors involved inj a variety of activities. The ophthalmologists at Wills Eye Institute in Philadelphia are reminding the public to protect their eyes More...
