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Back to School Preparedness Tips and Resources
Lisa Pfeifer – OSU Ag Safety and Health Education Coordinator: Back to school is almost a season of its own anymore, one that sneaks in between summer and fall. Those weeks in August bring the familiar sight of aisle after aisle in big box stores dedicate ...
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Preventing Barn Fires
Christine Gelley- OSU Extension, Noble County Agriculture and Natural Resources Educator: The fire department is a service you hope you will never need to use, but the one you are most thankful for when an emergency occurs and life as you know it is going ...
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Hot Work, Welding, Cutting, & Brazing
https://agsafety.osu.edu/programs/cfaes-osha/hot-work-welding-cutting-brazing
Hot Work Permits The purpose for the hot work permit program is to ensure that spark- and flame-producing construction and maintenance activities do not present an undue fire hazard to the people and Ohio State property. Hot work includes any operation p ...
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OSU Fume Hood Program
https://agsafety.osu.edu/laboratory-safety-standard/osu-fume-hood-program
The chemical fume hood is a primary safety device used to protect laboratory workers from chemical exposure, fires, or explosions. The Fume Hood protects the user from flammable, toxic or offensive chemicals by providing an enclosed work area or barrier b ...
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Electrical Safety & Lockout / Tagout
https://agsafety.osu.edu/programs/cfaes-osha/electrical-safety-lockout-tagout
Electrical Safety Electricity is a serious workplace hazard, capable of causing both employee injury and property damage. It is the policy of Ohio State to protect all employees, students and other personnel from potential electrical hazards. This will be ...
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Hearing Conservation Program
https://agsafety.osu.edu/programs/cfaes-osha/hearing-conservation-program
Employee exposures to noise of sufficient intensity and duration can result in hearing damage. Noise-induced hearing loss rarely results from just one exposure. Usually it will progress unnoticed over a period of years. Initial noise-induced hearing loss ...
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“Livestock Safety at the Fair” video
Just in time for county fair season. OSU Ag Safety and Health has produced a new “Livestock Safety at the Fair” video. Here are some links to the video: ...
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Sun Hats
https://agsafety.osu.edu/newsletter/ag-safety-stat/july-2018/announcements/sun-hats
Protect yourself with a wide brim hat this summer. These hats are perfect for the outdoor sport enthusiast, water lover, farmer or gardener in your office or family. They are also great to wear on C-deck during those first few OSU football games! The hats ...
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July 2018
https://agsafety.osu.edu/newsletter/ag-safety-stat/july-2018
Ag Safety S.T.A.T. – Safe Tactics for Ag Today is an electronic newsletter prepared by team members from the OSU Extension Agricultural Safety & Health Office. The goal is to provide seasonal safety news and activities that may be re-published in you ...
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Heat Stress Illness and Skin Cancer Prevention
Great safety and health materials can come from a variety of organizations and programs. Here is a great info-graphic on heat – related illness from the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety and an info- graphic on skin cancer prevention from ...