Safe Work Methods Training

Overview

Not too many years ago work related injuries and fatalities were exceptionally high and growing. Many US workers left for work in the morning and never returned home that evening, or returned home so badly injured that their lives would never be the same.

By 1970, the year the OSHA act was created, approximately 14,000 US workers died annually from work related injuries and accidents. This dreadful statistic only represents fatalities. It does not account for the hundreds of thousands of serious or disabling injuries that occurred the same year. 

Fast forward to 2009 and we find the annual fatality rate from work related injuries and accidents has fallen to approximately 4,000.   Over the years, substantial improvements have been made to facilities, equipment and processes to help achieve this gain.  

This is great progress, but 4,000 fatalities are still far too many.  Zero is the true goal.  In order to further decrease the work related fatality rate, more progress has to be made in the one area that has the greatest potential for causing worker deaths…worker behavior.