Safety Week May Save Your Life
The four most common fatal workplace accidents (known as The Fatal Four) are: falls (35%), electrocutions (10%), getting struck by an object (8%), or caught between things (4%). More than half of all construction worker deaths are within the dangerous category of the Fatal Four. If we as a society could find a way to eliminate the Fatal Four we’d save 431 workers' lives in America every year.
With so much at stake, with so many reasons to be vigilant about safety, why do we continue to skim over a safety week’s message? Are we too busy? Too careless? Too confident? Too absent? Perhaps it’s just that safety doesn't have sizzle. (Movies often portray risk-taking as cool. Does this reflect society's attitude towards safety?)
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OSHA works tirelessly to bridge the gap between safety resistance and safety acceptance. At OSHA, every week’s a safety week. The occupational fatality scroll on OSHA’s home page is one avoidable fatality after another. Three boys suffocate in a grain bin accident. Three men fall into and die in a dry well accident. These cruel, unforgiving tragedies demand our attention. Promoting the benefits of safety saves lives, saves families. It’s more than the right thing to do: it’s essential.
Safety weeks and safety months remind us to be vigilant regarding safety. Safety weeks play an important role in making all of us aware of the live-or-die consequences of emphasizing safety.
So make yourself a promise: make this week your own personal safety week. Look around you. What deserves your attention? How can you make your home or workplace safer? Safety weeks are wake-up calls for us all to bring the topic of safety to the table. When safety comes first, lives are saved. The life you save may be your own.
Find more safety information at www.Safe-Workplace.com.
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