Safety Tips
Workplace Safety Tips - Impaired Driving
Overview
- Alcohol-related motor vehicle crashes kill someone every 31 minutes and non-fatally injure someone every two minutes (NHTSA 2004a).
Occurrence and Consequences
- During 2003, 17,013 people in the U.S. died in alcohol-related motor vehicle crashes, representing 40% of all traffic-related deaths (NHTSA 2004a).
Workplace Safety: Ergonomics
You don't have to wait for an ergonomic problem to find you before you address it. Being proactive helps you "get a jump" on solving problems. Taking a proactive approach in your workplace can be as simple as taking a look around, talking to employees, and asking questions such as these:
- Do employees have ideas about how to improve products and make their jobs less physically demanding and more efficient?
- Are employees working in comfortable postures—that is, with no significant fatigue and discomfort?
Other Safety Resources
The below guides are available at no charge in .pdf format.
NIOSH/CDC Booklets
- Tell Me A Story: Why Stories are Essential to Workplace Safety Training.
- Wearing Hearing Protection Safely
Cal/OSHA Booklets
- Confined Space. Is it safe to enter?
- Cal/OSHA pocket guide for the Construction Industry
- Brief guide to OSHA Log Record keeping
Tailgate Topics