Planning to join the safety professionals at the NSC Congress and Expo in Houston March 22-24, 2018?
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 2016 alone 5,190 people died while doing their jobs. That’s more than 14 people per day. Many of these deaths were completely preventable.
According to a recent study, the average American adult working full-time logs 47 hours per week at their job. That means over the course of one year, a full-time employee will spend more than 2,400 hours on the job. No one wants to spend those hours in an unsafe or hazardous work environment.
Often, the involvement of a prevention specialist is spurred by a workplace incident of a physical nature. An employee—or several employees—are experiencing physical symptoms, so a specialist is brought into the company to implement a safety initiative.