Cautious in the Kitchen - Microwave Safety

SAFETY FACT: Superheating is a phenomenon that can cause serious burn injuries. Superheating usually occurs when using a microwave to heat a liquid, particularly water. In a microwave, it’s possible to heat water above the normal boiling point of 100 degrees Celsius. This can happen when you use a clean glass cup that doesn’t have any scratches to provide a place for bubbles (steam) to form. The water remains a liquid, instead of turning into steam and releasing some of the heat. When the cup is moved or something is added to the water, the bubbles form very rapidly, expelling the hot liquid like an explosion. When heating water in a microwave, always let the cup remain in the microwave for 30 seconds before touching it.


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Some New Years Resolutions to improve Employee Safety

With the start of a new year, it's a good time to re-evaluate the safety protocols and procedures in your facility. No matter what kind of operations your company is involved in, be it manufacturing, processing, construction, retrofitting, machining, tool and dye or any other production, the benefits of putting strong safety awareness policy in place will pay for itself quickly through the lack of lost time, injuries and fatalities.

Here's some basic employee safety resolutions you should be taking in 2009:

Revolve to inform, educate and notify all employees of proper safety protocols. Safety Starts with Awareness. Use a combination of signs, posters, decals and information boards throughout your facility to point out dangerous areas, areas that require safety equipment or other important notices. Using compound awareness methods reinforces important safety messages throughout your facility.

Resolve to have Safety Guards in place on all machines and equipment. While many machines come with safety guards in place, be sure that all are functioning and put additional guards in place where applicable.

Resolve to have proper head, foot, hand and eye protection equipment available and clearly marked. For the small investment in proper safety equipment and proper instruction to use this equipment, you can cut injuries in fatalities drastically. Your insurance premium savings alone should offset the costs of the equipment.

Resolve to organize safety teams and assign a safety lead to each department. By empowering your people to recognize safety problems and remedy them, each department feels ownership for the process and pride in maintaining safety procedures.

Resolve to recognize and reward those who exhibit outstanding safety practices. The champions for employee safety in your facility know their greatest reward is the safety of themselves and their team, but going beyond to celebrate their achievement with an award or inexpensive incentive is a constant reminder of their commitment to safety and your commitment to them.

Resolve to publish your safety numbers for everyone to see. Knowing how well the company is doing and what areas need improvement will give all parties involved the insight to make better safety decisions.

Resolve to improve safety through employee feedback. Those employees that have a method for reporting safety problems and making recommendations are more likely to be registered in the process and willing to champion your safety causes.

2009 is a great time to push your safety awareness to the next level. Make this a year without incident in your facility.

Be Safe at Work

The wokplace, just like anywhere else, can be a dangerous place if you are not careful.
Accident costs directly affect everyone in business by increasing health care costs, raising insurance premiums, and reducing profits and capabilities for capital improvements, research and money available. Safety mistakes are also very bad for morale.

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Informed employees will want to play an important role in tracking down and stopping Safety problems. Managements role is to empower its people by giving them information and processes in which they can participate. It is around this philosophy that Awarenessideas built its Employee Safety Action Plan.
We have of years of experience and a complete line of Safety process awareness materials. Most important, making us part of your team will give you on going support and enthusiastic resourcefulness.

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Be Safe at the Workplace!

5 Workplace Safety Tips:

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   Always maintain a clean work area! Not only will you remove multiple hazards from a work area by keeping it clean, but you will also provide a more productive work environment.
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   Use guards and engineering solutions wherever necessary and use personal protective equipment. Everyone will be more productive if they are comfortable.
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   Insist on clear work instructions. Make sure everyone knows the right way to do what is expected of the job.
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   Don’t dwell on worst case scenarios but focus on what is most likely to occur. Start by focusing your energy in preventing your most common incidents.
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   Maintain the machinery in good working order. Many times employees get into dangerous situations by having to compensate for a machine defect or wear.

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Eye Safety

Eye injuries are one of the most common injuries in the work place and are often preventable. They can be prevented by using the right safety measures. Eye protection is extremely important in areas where necessary, so make sure these areas have proper signage and reminders to help prevent eye injury!
This poster is just one of many that we have to help make the workplace a safer place to be.



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dispose of mercury safely!

Humans use mercury in many manufacturing processes and products like bulbs and thermometers. If you dispose of products with mercury in them improperly, they might break, releasing mercury vapors that are harmful to your health.

Dispose of used mercury-containing items properly. Many states have developed collection/exchange programs for mercury-containing devices like thermometers and thermostats, and also recycling programs for fluorescent light bulbs. Some cities also have hazardous waste collection programs for households. For information about these programs, contact your local officials to find out when and where a collection will be held in your area.

Always remember to clean up mercury spills properly and report them to the proper authorities when necessary!





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Weather Safety

With spring and summer comes the possibility of severe weather.
Knowing what to do in a severe weather situation can mean life or death.
Do you know what to do if severe weather strikes where you are? Do your family or coworkers? Having a plan is critical and can save lives.

At AwarenessIDEAS.com, we have developed safety posters containing tips for weather safety that will help the people that may not know what to do when faced with a tornado warning, flood warning, and other types of possible disasters.

Already have a plan and need to let others know what that plan is? Let us design a custom poster for you so you can display the information needed to keep everyone safe. Whether it's a map of your building with designated tornado areas and emergency tips, or a digram of fire exits, we can help design a poster that is easy for everyone to understand and keep safe.
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Don't stub your toe safety

I feel like a real jerk when I don't follow my own good advice.

A few months ago, I was working on a pretty industrial project (installing a large ceiling fan) and I wasn't wearing proper foot protection. Being clumsy, I managed to drop the fan right on my left foot, smack on my big toe.

The toe was broken. Anyone who has ever had a broken toe knows that is really nothing you can do about it but be patient. I was patient for a couple of months. The nail turned blue and then fell off. It was a pretty sad sight. Then when the nail did grow back in, it grew in ingrown and became infected. Now, after a couple of doctor visits and several hundred dollars out of pocket to remedy the problem, I'm on my way to recovery.

What's the lesson here? Always wear proper foot protection! Spending that $50 on good work boots and the 5 seconds to put them on would have saved me weeks of agony and the several hundred dollars it cost me in doctor's visits.

We've created a series of foot safety posters to remind your employees of the importance of foot safety:


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No one plans to have an injury but lack of planning results in them

Plan to have a support system that can carry the safety awareness ball for you, when you're up to your ears in being busy. It takes so little effort to align yourself with a safety marketing professional who can then make timely marketing rcommendations to you and proceed with implementation when you give the word.

Injuries happen when people are too busy to plan for creating the attmosphere that keeps people on their safety toes.

Good safety resources are available; as a matter of fact review our website and give us a call to learn more about us.