Ventilation
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Ventilation in Your Workplace
Is It Clearing the Air?
No workplace receives 100 percent fresh, outside air. Usually, the fresh air is mixed with used workplace air and then circulated. In some buildings, the outside air dampers are shut and there is virtually no fresh air. The same air may be re-circulated and breathed over and over again. This is what to look for in evaluating your ventilation system:
Noise Control
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Keeping the Noise Down
Ear Plugs Are Not the Only Answer
HOW NOISE CAN HURT YOU
- Damage to hearing. Long-term exposure to high noise levels may cause severe hearing loss and can also cause "ringing" in the ears.
- Damage to the rest of the body. High noise levels may contribute to diseases caused by stress, such as ulcers and heart disease. Many workers exposed to noise complain of headaches, irritability, nervousness, and fatigue.
Machine Guarding
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Machine Guarding
Keeping Mistakes from Becoming Accidents
The only sure way to prevent machine accidents is to install foolproof guards which make injuries impossible. Several common methods of guarding are described below, with the best ones listed first:
Joint Safety Committees
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Joint Safety and Health Committees
For Show or For Real?
An effective joint committee is not a committee set up by management merely to post safety slogans and urge workers to be more careful on the job.
Job Design
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Job Design
Fitting the Job to the Worker
Many jobs just don't fit the workers who are supposed to do them.