1. Occupational/Work Safety An Overview

2. Work/Occupational safety is the area of safety that has probably made the most significant progress in the United States in the past 100 years. Why? Between 1912 and 2000, unintentional work deaths per 100,000 population were reduced over 90%, from 21 to just under 2. In 2000, in a workforce nearly quadruped in size and producing nine times the goods and services, there were only 5,100 work deaths.

3. Work deaths and injuries - 2000 Unintentional injury deaths – 5,100 Death rate (per 100,000) – < 2.0 Disabling injuries – 3,800,000 Costs - $122.6 Billion Cost per worker* - $910 Cost per worker* - $910 *This figure indicates the value of goods or services each worker must produce to offset the cost of work injuries. It is not the average cost of a work injury.

4. Individual Industries and death rates Mining & Quarrying – 23.1 Agriculture – 22.5 Construction – 14.0 Transportation and Public Utilities – 10.7

5. Leading Work-Related Injuries 1.Motor-vehicle (including to and from work and job-related travel) 2.Falls 3.Nonhighway industrial-vehicle incidents 4.Blows (other than by vehicles or equipment) 5.Electrocutions

6. Leading types of injuries on the job AmputationsFractures Soft tissue injuries Sprains Sprains Strains Strains Back injuries Back injuries Contusions Contusions Eye loss and eye injury Eye loss and eye injury Lacerations Lacerations Burns Burns

7. Effective Countermeasures Physical barriers Changes in the design of tools and machinery Training of workers in the safe performance of tasks Repeated, systematic inspection of the workplace for emerging or previously undetected hazards. A visible, serious, and persistent commitment to safety by both management and labor.