Working safely at home is just as important as working safely on the job. If employees are injured off of the job, it is just as bad (or worse) for them as being injured on the job. Injuries that occur off the job also impact business operations. Everyone plays an important part at work and when someone is missing everyone in the workplace can be negatively impacted. Employees should not allow themselves to become an injury statistic by putting themselves at risk while at home or taking part in hobbies.
Injuries at Home Statistics
Unfortunately, injuries and fatalities occur all too often in the home environment. The National Safety Council Injury Facts reports that 131,400 preventable injury-related deaths occurred in homes and communities. An additional 39.4 million people suffered non-fatal injuries that required medical attention. Factor in the injuries that were not treated in the hospital and the number is even more staggering.
Take Safety Home
Complacency is often a contributing factor in these tragedies in the home. Working at home is probably much less dangerous than most jobs in construction and manufacturing, but that does not mean that some steps to keep safe and healthy should not be taken. Dedicate time in some of the safety meetings to address how the topics covered could apply to working at home.
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- Alcohol Use
- Allergies
- Annual Checkup
- Asbestos Dangers
- Automated External Defibrillators
- Back Injuries and Prevention
- Battling Complacency
- Bees and Wasps
- Bloodborne Pathogens
- Burn Hazards and Injury Prevention
- Burn Severity
- Carbon Monoxide Safety
- Carcinogens in the Workplace
- Chainsaw General Safety
- Choices at Home and Safety on the Job
- Cold Stress Hazards
- Common Cold
- Common Issues with Fire Extinguishers
- Dangers of Excessive Sitting
- Defensive Driving
- Diet
- Distracted Driving (Cellphone Use)
- Distracted While Walking
- Dog Attacks
- Drowsy Driving
- Drug Abuse
- Drunk Driving
- Eating Habits
- Electrical Injuries
- Electrical Safety
- Energy Drink Dangers
- Eye Damage Due to Sunlight
- Eye Injuries and Prevention
- Falls on the Same Level
- Fire Extinguishers Use and Inspection
- Fire Safety at Home
- Firework Safety and Injury Prevention
- Fixed Open Blade Knives
- Flu
- Food Allergies
- Gasoline Safety
- Hand Safety and Injury Prevention
- Hazardous Chemicals- Four Routes of Entry
- Health is Everything
- Heart Attacks
- Heat Stress
- Heat Stroke
- How What We Do at Home Affects Work
- Hydration: The Importance of Water
- Insect Sting Allergies
- Ladder Safety
- Lawn Mower Safety
- Lead Paint Dangers and Safety
- Lightning Safety at Work and Home
- Line of Fire Hazards
- Lyme Disease
- Manual Handling Injury Prevention
- Mechanical Issue-Related Crashes
- Mosquitos
- Motor Vehicle Safety
- Noise at Work and Home
- Noise-Induced Hearing Loss
- Pinch Points and Hand Injuries
- Poison Ivy
- Pressure Washing
- Rabies in the US
- Respirator Donning, Doffing, and Seal Checks
- Seatbelt Use and Safety
- Shoveling Snow
- Silica Dust Dangers and Safety Measures
- Skin Cancer Due to Sun Exposure
- Sleep
- Slip Hazards and Safety
- Slips, Trips, and Falls
- Smoking and Your Health
- Snakes in the Workplace
- Spiders
- Strokes- Signs and Emergency Response
- Take Safety Home
- Taking Shortcuts
- Ticks
- Tornado Safety
- Train Safety
- Types of Fire Extinguishers
- Underground Utility Strikes
- Utility Vehicle Safety at Home and Work
- Weed Wacker Safety
- West Nile Virus
- Wind Chill Index
- Winter Weather
- Winter Weather Driving
- Wood Dust
- Young Drivers and Motor Vehicle Accidents
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