OSHA and news items are bulleted below special product information selected especially for manufacturers. Workplace safety and training is the focus.

Special Safety Training Products

NEW Forklift Safety training and NEW Personal Protective Equipment videos/DVDs are presented.

Forklift Safety (#1592)

This video helps you comply with 1910-178 and gives viewers a solid overview of forklift characteristics and safe forklift operation. Several dramatic reenactments of typical forklift mishaps are featured. Also covered:

   • Forklift handling, stability and load limits
   • Understanding forklifts, inspection, refueling & recharging
   • Picking up and placing loads, including elevated loads
   • General safe driving guidelines, operating around pedestrians and other forklifts

Forklift Safety: The Experienced Operator (#1816)
Targeted for experienced operators, this program stresses the importance of operating a
forklift professionally and safely; and it creates an awareness and respect for the potential hazards. The operator is responsible for their safety and the safety of those around them. Dramatic footage of the Air Force Thunderbirds is used to convey this message. Covers components such as:

  • Vehicle inspection and maintenance
  • Hazard assessment and communication
  • Expected performance

PPE (#1748)
Year after year hundreds of thousands of employees are injured because they fail to wear the necessary PPE. This video will teach employees that their safety depends on understanding the hazards in the workplace and equipping themselves to avoid them. Types of PPE used to protect the eyes, face, head, hands and feet are discussed.

  • Selection of PPE needed to provide adequate protection
  • Proper fit of PPE
  • Implementing the "Choose and Use" approach to PPE in your facility
  • Identifying the limitations of PPE items
  • Inspecting PPE and using approved maintenance/ cleaning methods

Zomar Productions’ Employee Safety Orientation (#1515). Free three-week preview is available. This up-to-date program covers policies and procedures in a variety of work environments. Includes smoking, alcohol & drug usage and drug testing, violence, sexual harassment and emergencies. Allows pausing for discussion & material handouts. Meet OSHA requirements.

• Proper lifting
• Workplace inspections
• Reporting injuries
• Accident investigation
• Safe driving
• Bloodborne Pathogens
• Hazard Communication & MSDS

Safety Orientation: It Begins with You by Summit Training Source (#1705). Explain to your employees that safe work practices and procedures are established for their safety with this compelling training program. Supports a positive safety culture by addressing a wide range of safety topics including:

• PPE and good housekeeping procedures
• Hazard communication
• Ergonomic awareness
• Emergency evacuation procedures
• Signs, placards and labels

 

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News

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5.5 million recordable, non-fatal illnesses & injuries in private industry in 2000. - Bureau of Labor Statistics.

In 2000, 9,700 workers suffered amputated fingers, hands, arms, legs, feet or toes on the job – 26 amputations each day. – OSHA
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More than 1,000 eye injuries occur every day. – National Society to Prevent Blindness
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Welding incidents contributed to more than 11,000 eye injuries treated in U.S. emergency rooms in 2001. Power grinders and buffers were in second place with 10,000 eye injuries. – U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.
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Workplace death rate for Hispanics climbed 11 percent in 2000, while the death rate for other groups declined. – John Henshaw, Assistant Secretary of Labor for OSHA