Workplace Safety Bulletins
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Listed below are the current and previous workplace safety bulletins released by the Safety Services team at AMERIND. |
 To view the safety bulletins for home safety, click here. |
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Traffic death rates are three times greater at night than during the day. Yet many of us are unaware of driving at night special hazards or don't know effective ways to deal with them. Ninety percent of a driver's reaction depends on vision, and depth perception, color recognition, and peripheral vision are compromised at night. Older drivers have even greater difficulties seeing at night. Another factor adding danger to night driving is fatigue. | |
| | The AMERIND Safety Team has dozens of workplace safety training presentations available for our TEIP clients. Contact a Safety Team Member to obtain any of the material. | |
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Slip, Trips and Falls - including falls on ice, wet surfaces, while carrying objects, over clutter, over uneven surfaces and falls from ladders were 2009's second most common type of injury. | |
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Injuries while Lifting (including lifting heavy objects, lifting light objects, reaching for objects and dropping objects while lifting) was a major cause of workplace injury claims for 2009. | |
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AMERIND's Safety Team recently completed an analysis for all TEIP clients and found some trends in reporting errors and misinformation that we wish to correct in order to help keep employees safe. | |
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This article is a review of Tribal Employee Injury Protection (TEIP). | |
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Our jobs are such a common part of our lives that it is sometimes difficult to remember how dangerous they can be. | |
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Here are some Lockout/Tagout tips to help protect you from the unexpected release of energy while servicing or maintaining equipment in the workplace. | |
| | Hearing loss is 100% preventable. But once you lose your hearing you will never get it back. | |
| | Ergonomics relate to musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) and are the most common type of workplace injury. | |
| | Tools have always been indispensable helpmates, and a good set of hand tools is essential for any farm shop, machinery or facility repair. | |
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Vehicular Accidents (including accidents at night, during the day, and driving in inclement weather) had the largest increase of workplace injury TEIP claims in 2008.
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