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Maximizing Workplace Safety: Your Essential Guide to Preventing Hazards

Learn how to protect yourself, others, and property from various threats including physical, chemical, and nuisances in the workplace. Discover safety measures, first-aid tips, and procedures for dealing with cuts, burns, and other emergencies.

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Maximizing Workplace Safety: Your Essential Guide to Preventing Hazards

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  1. General Safety Your responsibilities

  2. Why be concerned with safety? • Protect yourself • Protect those around you • Protect people you will never meet • Protect property

  3. Types of Threats • Personal safety • Nuisances • Physical Threats • Chemical Threats

  4. Issues of Personal Safety • Avoid working alone • After Hour Work Permits • Locking Doors

  5. Nuisances • Stains and Dyes • Clothing Damage

  6. Physical Threats • Dropping, falling, bumping • Cuts • Fire • Compressed gasses • Steam • Burns

  7. Dropping, falling, bumping • Avoid wearing open toed shoes (sandals) • Clean up any spills, even water! • Use a proper ladder or step-stool • Keep cabinet doors closed

  8. Sharp Objects

  9. What to do in case of a cut • Let somebody know • Apply light pressure with clean towel, elevate the area above your heart • First Aid: • Clean wound if necessary (running water) • Wait until bleeding • Apply antiseptic (H2O2 or cream) • Disinfect any blood spills, decontaminate any waste • Deep punctures should be encouraged to bleed

  10. Fire • Let someone know • Find an exit route (Room 220 Door and Window) • Fire extinguisher by door – PASS!

  11. I’m on fire! • Lab coat, hair tied • Stop, Drop, and Roll • Never reach across an open flame • Never leave a flame unattended • Keep area organized – give yourself operating room!

  12. Compressed gases • Pressure • Suffocation • Poisoning • Explosion

  13. Steam, Scalding Liquids • More lethal than fire • Autoclave (make sure pressure in chamber is zero before opening!) • Vent all bottles and tubes during heating • Remove liquids from microwave carefully

  14. “Hot glass and cold glass look exactly alike” Chartrain’s Law of Glass

  15. What to do about minor burns • Apply wet ice to deaden the pain • Cold packs in freezer, or Instant Ice Compress • Apply burn cream, but Do Not Apply Bandage or Adhesive Tape!

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