When chemicals can contact the eye or body and cause injury, immediate action is necessary to rinse affected areas. Emergency showers and eyewashes are the primary equipment for such action.
News sources are reporting that a worker in Oregon was killed on Friday after falling into a blender used for processing meat. Authorities said the accident at Interstate Meat Distributors in Clackamas claimed the life of 41-year-old Hugo Avalos-Chanon, a contract worker employed by DCS Sanitation Management.
May is Oregon’s Transportation Safety Month and May 5 is Occupational Safety and Health Professional (OSHP) day, according to a press release issued by the American Society of Safety Engineers. Local corporate, state, trucking and safety officials will discuss the numbers - how motor vehicle crashes cost employers 60 billion dollars every year in medical care, legal expenses, property damages, lost productivity and more. Overall, transportation crashes cost the country $170 billion a year. As transportation crashes continue to be the number one cause of on-the-job deaths, officials will discuss the tangible and intangible costs resulting from crashes, and what can and is being done to prevent them.
Workers and employers in Oregon’s construction industry are invited to attend a full-day conference designed to highlight safety with hands-on training on Jan. 26, 2009.
The Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) has released its 2008 National Scorecard on State Roadway Laws: A Blueprint for Injury Prevention, according to a recent press release.
The number of deaths of workers covered by the Oregon workers' compensation system set a record low in 2005, according to Oregon News Online. Thirty-one workers died on the job during 2005, the lowest number reported since the state began tracking the statistic in 1943.