Occupational Safety and Health Administration on LinkedIn: Build Your Mental Health Toolkit (2024)

🔥 Attention all safety experts and workers! Heat illness is a serious risk, but it's preventable. Watch our PSA for 3 simple ways to keep yourself and those around you safe in high temperatures. 🌡️⚕️ Don't wait—safeguard you and your team's safety and health! #HeatSafety

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Some workers handle heat stress differently than others. Heat intolerance happens for many reasons; potential risk factors may include:🌡️ Diabetes🌡️ High blood pressure🌡️ Obesity🌡️ Heart disease🌡️ Certain medicationsFor more personal risk factors ⤵️https://lnkd.in/eMke94g

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Under the settlement agreement Dollar General agrees to:✅ Post job advertisem*nts for more safety managers✅ Reduce inventory to prevent blocked exits and unsafe storage✅ Give safety and health training to managers and workers✅ Report on its progress and compliance to OSHAThese changes help give peace of mind to thousands of workers, knowing that they are not risking their safety in their workplaces and that they will come home healthy at the end of each day.Read more: https://lnkd.in/ebi5RibA

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Whether because of language barriers or immigration status, workers may not get the help they need to be protected from extreme heat.Watch to see what this group is doing to make sure that "Ni una vida mas," not one more life is lost to heat!https://lnkd.in/ey8b-GaC

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Safe + Sound Week is Aug. 12-18! Join businesses across the country in the #HuntForHazards at your workplace. Follow along for daily activities as Detective C. Hazards goes through the steps of a job hazard analysis.Sign up today! ➡️ https://lnkd.in/e2GxmYFw#SafeAndSoundAtWork

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🌡️ 📸 Calling all workplaces! Enter OSHA's Beat the Heat photo contest and inspire other workplaces with images of your best practices for keeping workers safe from indoor and outdoor heat hazards.Enter here! 🔗 https://bit.ly/3KbJ0Dp

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💵 🏗️ 👷🏾 OSHA's Susan Harwood Training Grant Program aims to advance job quality for the U.S. workforce by providing instructor-led safety training for workers, supervisors and employers.Funding opportunities close on July 26.Apply today ⤵️ osha.gov/HarwoodGrants

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DYK that about every 5 minutes, a worker between 15 and 19 years old sustains a work injury severe enough to go to the emergency room?Never ask young workers to perform tasks that could be hazardous to them.Here are our resources to keep them safe ⬇️https://lnkd.in/enTGp8kU

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Summer's here and it's bringing the heat!For indoor and outdoor workers, safety in hazardous heat is key.Keep your team hydrated with water access and have shaded spots for resting.Do you have a workplace heat plan in place? Learn more 🔗 https://bit.ly/3L6hHeg#HeatSafety

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