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I have to share about my new favorite, multi-purpose safety glasses - Elvex Avion Indoor/Outdoor Safety Glasses. They are great for many reasons but I LOVE Indoor/Outdoor safety glasses because I don’t need to have tons of pairs lying around to meet different needs.

Besides being great for yard projects where I am going in and out of sunny areas or in and outside, I have also been using them for biking! I am training for a triathlon and I am riding outside regularly. I need to keep the wind, sun and bugs out of my eyes (especially important for contact wearers like me). The Indoor/Oudoor Safety Glasses have enough sun reflection to keep the sun off my eyes but are clear enough to keep wearing when the sun goes behind the cloud so that I don’t have to worry about them being too dark. Who wants to lug around extra stuff like another pair of glasses? I don’t like really dark sun glasses for biking anyway - I save those for boating.  Also, Elvex’s Avion has a snug fit that’s not too tight.

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Having a safety plan involves different steps. One of these steps is identifying hazards. Did you know that small businesses are able to get free onsite consultation services? OSHA will send a qualified consultant to “help identify existing hazards and those that can develop, as well as implement systems to help prevent or control these hazards.” And it’s good to know that these services are separate from enforcement - meaning you don’t have to worry about citations or penalties.

(check out http://www.osha.gov/dcsp/smallbusiness/sbrefa.html if you need more info about OSHA consults)

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The weather is finally hot here in Wisconsin!  Yahoo!  It’s a good thing too because my cabin fever was getting out of control.  We were using snow blowers in March which is just wrong! My psyche was suffering severely which meant I needed online shopping to repair it. But finally June arrived and brought (mostly) hot, heavenly weather. It also brought major road construction but that’s a topic for another day.

Today was beautiful and I started itching to work on projects.

You know what kind of projects I mean - the DIY house and yard projects which lead us to need PPE (personal protection equipment). Eye protection, hand protection, ear protection, feet protection…okay you get the idea.

The weather’s too nice to be cooped up in an Urgent Care room. Take care of yourself!  Now is a great time to update your supplies. Scratched safety glasses? Update with a great looking pair of Safety Glasses you can work in or wear on the road. Need some ear protection? Why not have some music to go with it and check out the Elvex ComMuff Ear Muffs? They plug into CD players, MP3 players and standard radios. Listen to your favorite tunes as you mow or work power tools. Music can make any project go faster.

Be Safe!

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According to Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety the estimated cost of Workmen’s Comp due to disabling injuries and illnesses was 48.6 billion (most recent figure from ’06). That was not a typo – billion is correct. Holy crap is right!

The most recently released Top Ten list of “Most Disabling Workplace Injuries” from Liberty Mutual Workplace Safety Index are as follows:

1.      Overexertion
2.      Fall On Same Level
3.      Fall To Lower Level
4.      Bodily Reaction
5.      Struck by Object
6.      Struck Against Object
7.      Highway Incident
8.      Caught In/Compressed By
9.      Repetitive Motion
10.  Assaults/Violent Acts

What preventative measures are you taking? Do you have safety plans in place? Do you follow them?

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Did you know that MSHA offers free Education and Training resources? Topics include eye protection, mining safety, hazard recognition, first aid training, and tie-off fall protection rules are only a few of the many listed.

If you’re interested in details then check out the link (see below)and read the synopsis or watch short clips of the videos. To get the safety training video from their library there is a contact number where you order what you want.

Snug Harness, a fall protection safety company, also offers safety training videos for free. You only pay for shipping (under $4.00 I believe) and they will send you a DVD that you can keep. Currently they have two training videos listed, Rescue and Retrieval and ABC’s of Fall Protection. And as always, they add their own brand of spice to their videos.

If you could request a certain type of training video, what would it be?

MSHA resources: www.msha.gov/Streaming/SafetyHealthClips.asp

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After choosing this month’s winner in a very scientific manner (the old standby of eenie-meenie-miny-moe which is my personal favorite) we have this months winner of the Harley Davidson Safety Glasses. All you have to do to enter is subscribe to Safety Briefs!

Congrats to our May winner:  Sandra T, California

And thanks also to Safety Glasses Inc for providing us with Harley Davidson Safety Glasses every month.

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