Documents National Safety Council, Itasca 4 results

"The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred many changes in how people work across organizations and industries. Some of these changes (e.g., limited social gatherings, mandatory face coverings) are likely to be temporary. Others, however, are likely to remain in some capacity for the foreseeable future. The National Safety Council (NSC) launched the SAFER: Safe Actions for Employee Returns effort to give employers tools and resources to ensure their workplaces are safe for employees, contractors and the public. In addition to providing guidance, NSC wanted to understand how the pandemic is fundamentally changing the way businesses operate and communicate with their workforces and where those changes might lead."

"English version of a manual originally published by the Swedish Work Environment Fund. Practical solutions to ergonomic problems were collected from employers' and employees' organisations in the private and public sectors in Sweden. The given improvements in equipment and working methods are not intended to be copied in detail, but to suggest ways for the reader to solve newly encountered problems. Section headings: seated repetitive work with light parts; seated work with larger parts; seated control work; standing work; standing heavy lifting and carrying work; work with the hands above chest height; work with hand tools."

"The goal of the Work to Zero initiative at the National Safety Council (NSC) is to eliminate workplace fatalities through the use of technology. Based on existing data, expert insight and feedback from environmental, health and safety (EHS) professionals, NSC identified the top eighteen hazardous workplace situations (e.g., work at height, confined space entry, machinery operation) and associated situational risks (e.g., falls, struck by, arc flash) that account for the greatest amount of workplace fatalities across different industries, job types and worker activities.
Next, NSC identified the systemic contributing factors (e.g., lack of training, fatigue, poor equipment design) that sometimes exacerbate risk within those same hazardous situations. NSC also identified a list of over one hundred relevant EHS technologies that could help mitigate both the situational and systemic risks and mapped these technologies to the risks in ways that the surveyed EHS professionals perceived to be most effective.
The top hazardous situations were work at height, workplace violence, and repair and maintenance tasks. The most used safety technologies were robotics (e.g., drones), sensors/detectors (e.g., radio–frequency ID sensors) and software (e.g., control of work software). EHS technology adoption criteria and barriers are also discussed. Future Work to Zero studies will examine the effectiveness of specific EHS technologies at reducing serious injury and fatality risk exposure and develop best practices for new technology adoption and implementation for reducing workplace fatalities."