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Our Safety Program |
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Welcome to the Simplex Safety First Program. These Safety First Topics are free to be used as you see fit to promote a safe workplace. Most companies will hold their Safety First Meetings each Friday or on payday. Normally, copies are made of the topic and passed out to those attending the meeting. The person presenting reads the topic aloud while the others follow along. Following the reading of the topic there is an open discussion on the topic. Close attention is paid as to how that week’s topic applies to the job site. Also encouraged are discussions regarding safety concerns and safety items of interest. Click on the link above for complete details. |
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Your Hearing: Keep it for a Lifetime |
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This Safety First Topic looks at hearing loss and how it can be prevented.
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Working Together |
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This Safety First Program describes the effectiveness of working together with your company and fellow employees in ensuring a safe working environment. |
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Work Clothes and Safety |
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This Safety First Topic explains the importance that clothes are workers personal protection. If the clothes are not worn properly, it can affect your safety. |
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Why Prevent Accidents ? |
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This Safety First Topic strongly discusses the importance to prevent accidents in the work place. |
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What You Can Do to Prevent Cold Stress Injuries |
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This Safety First Topic discusses what you can do to protect yourself from cold stress injuries. Remember, it doesn`t have to be freezing for cold stress to occur. |
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Using Portable Electric-Powered Tools Safely |
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This Safety First Topic discusses specific OSHA guidelines to help tool users recognize the hazards associated with the different types of tools and the safety precautions necessary to prevent those hazards. |
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Understanding Safety Signs |
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This Safety First Topic takes a look at different types of signs; what they mean, and how they should be used.
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Safety and Saving Time |
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This Safety First Topic discusses ways to ensure that time is utilized to its best, and you will make the job easier, smoother, quicker, and safer. |
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Protecting Your Eyes |
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This Safety First Topic deals with protecting your eyes at the worksite. |
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Protect Your Hands |
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This Safety First Topic deals with protecting your hands at the worksite. |
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Preventing Slips, Trips, and Falls |
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This Safety First Topic discusses what can be done to prevent slips, trips and falls. Most of the suggestions in this article can be used on the job and at home.
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Preventing Heat Stress |
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This Safety First Topic discusses ways to prevent heat stress and how to recognize the symptoms of a number of heat-stress conditions.
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MSDS |
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This Safety First Topic takes a look at the content of an MSDS and provides some other important information for using an MSDS.
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Look and Live |
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This Safety First Topic deals with paying attention and "looking" which is the most important and basic principle of accident prevention.
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Industrial Ergonomics |
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This Safety First Topic has discussed the symptoms and causes of injuries caused by poor ergonomics. |
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How to use a jack properly |
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This Safety First Topic deals with one of the easiest pieces of equipment to operate in any industry: the jack. |
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Back Safety |
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Back disorders are listed in the "top ten" leading workplace injuries published by the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health. |
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