A blog posted by Driving Ambition, a professional CDL driver staffer, talks about keeping CDL drivers safe while entering and exiting the trucks. Slip and falls are the most prevalent cause of truck driver injuries. It lists does and don’ts for drivers on behavioral standpoints, physical standpoints, and environmental stand points. Non-slip tread stairs play an important part of keeping drivers safe.
On June 8, 2006 an American Trans Air airplane at LaGuardia Airport, New York en route to Chicago, Illinois sustained substantial damage when a foreign object struck the tail of the airplane during taxi. The foreign object happened to be an aluminum diamond plate which was used to cover the area of the taxiway that was receiving maintenance. The aluminum diamond plate damaged the right horizontal stabilizer. There were no injuries to the crewmembers and passengers aboard but this resulted in improper airport maintenance by contract maintenance personnel.
As noted by Anapol Schwartz, Attorneys at Law, in their section entitled “Serious Injuries Can Result from Falls,” “Hospital floors are often slippery because of spills or cleaning solutions and they are often cluttered with medical equipment.” Though you would assume that patients and staff should feel safe in a hospital environment, hazardous risks still play a key role in accidents and can result in slips and falls. Schwartz continues to say that “it is estimated that 10% of the falls result in injury occur while they (patients) are in a healthcare institution such as a hospital.”
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According to an article by Fred Hosier entitled &lquo;12 Common Mistakes in Slip, Trip and Fall Prevention“, &lquo;Slips, trips and falls are routinely one of the top causes of injuries in workplaces. They also subtract from a company’s bottom line due to medical and workers’ compensation insurance, lost productivity and retraining costs.&rquo; There are many different methods that are used to prevent these injuries from occurring, but some of them don’t stand up to the challenge.
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The American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) will offer a virtual safety seminar titled “Slips, Trips and Falls: Best Practices and Standards” on October 20-22. The virtual symposium is an academic conference online. Symposium attendees that participate in the online program will hear from safety professionals around the world that give advice, share experiences and provide learning opportunities. The virtual symposium will also discuss the costs of slips, trips and falls in the workplace, both personal and financial. ASSE and its members have found that slips, trips and falls account for a vast majority of workplace incidents. For more information and to find out how to participate in this virtual symposium please go to ASSE.org.
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According to an article entitled “Slip and Fall Accidents” by Ashwini Kulkami, slip and fall accidents “are the second leading cause of injuries in the United States.” Approximately 16,000 deaths arise from slip and fall accidents. Kulkami goes on to state that the most common places for slips and falls outside of the home include malls, schools, parks, roads, among others.
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According to an article titled “Steps in Safety Strategy: The Gap Analysis & Implementation Plan” by Thomas Krause, the first steps to developing a workplace safety strategy involves building a foundation for the change required and developing the knowledge and emotional commitment of the organization’s leaders through a communications and governance structure. Once these steps are established, it is necessary to develop an implementation plan that bridges the gap between where a company stands now and where it wants to be.
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As noted by Accident Recovery in Dallas, TX, “Every year there are thousands of road accidents in the United States, and over 100,000 of these involved pedestrians getting injured or killed.” It is also stated that many of these injuries are a result of people “slipping or tripping on wet, slippery or greasy surfaces, as well as unexpected holes in sidewalks that result from missing manhole or utility covers, and other hidden hazards on areas that residential and business property owners, as well as local city, state and even federal government entities should be properly maintaining.”
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The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) which is part of the governmental structure in the United Kingdom publishes information and regulations on health and safety measures. They wrote an article on preventing slips, trips and falls in the workplace entitled “Slips and Trips: The importance of floor cleaning.” The article talked about how with proper measures including management systems, contamination control and obstacle removal, most slips and trips can be avoided in the workplace. This was a really good workplace safety article and basically gave any safety manager in any country a clear cut idea on how to properly clean in order to prevent any slip and fall accidents in the workplace.
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Most companies like to think they are worried about safety, but really do nothing to make sure they are doing the best they can when it comes to enforcing it. I read an article a while back in the EHS Today entitled “Worthington Industries: Committed to Safety” that reminded me that there are some exemplary companies that make it their #1 goal.
