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Categories Construction Industry Safety Energy Industries Fall Protection Safety Injury Prevention Manufacturing Industry MarineMaritime Transport Mining Industry Access NewsAnnouncements Safety EquipmentPPE Safety Risk Management TruckingHighway Work Hazard Assessments Work Safety Policy Workers' Comp Risk Workplace Access Safety Recent Posts What We Found: SlipFall Safety Infographics from CCOHS December 29, 2014 An Introduction to Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) December 19, 2014 Budgeting for Work Injury PreventionSafety Risk Management Strategy November 25, 2014 What We Found: Ladder SafetyTop 10 2014 OSHA Violations October 30, 2014 Know the Standards: OSHA Fall Protection Compliance October 17, 2014 The Trucker Newsletter: Fleet Friendly Trucker Access September 30, 2014 Fortune 500 Contractor Provides Testimonial for Trucker® September 16, 2014 View our Work Platform at the AGC Safety Day Conference August 27, 2014 Work Safety Sponsors Innovative Access Solutions, LLC produces Custom Access Products for Fall Protection, Floor Openings and Multi-Level Access Site-Safe Truck Sales provides TMA Trucks for Work Zone Safety in Highway Construction What We Found: SlipFall Safety Infographics from CCOHS We at the SafetyNumbers blog hope you enjoyed the holidays and are looking forward to new opportunities in the year ahead. Having successfully maneuvered our way through various work safety topics throughout the year, starting with Workers Comp EMR Rate calculations and culminating with a Guide to Budgeting for Work Injury Prevention , we are excited to cap off the year with a recent Eureka! moment. What is that Eureka moment, you may ask? We at the SafetyNumbers blog are remarkably capable at sifting through the Internet muck to find diamonds in the rough. So why spend all of our time writing detailed blog posts based on information that we find? Instead, we are going to devote posts to sharing valuable information created at other online resource hubs. After all, we are ultimately here to provide what we think will help you make your own decisions, not simply craft the answers that you expect to find. So if you have come across our What We Found post for December 29, 2014, we hope you will consider the following resources without reservation or bias. Slip and Fall Safety Infographics Infographics are one of those great yet frustrating things about the Internet. If well done, they simplify information delivery and provide raw data that genuinely helps with decision making. Still, they are designed with an agenda in mind, or why would they be created to begin with? Here are a few infographics that we found on the CCOHS board at Pinterest that we thought worth sharing. Preventing SlipsFalls from Canada’s CCOHS One thing I’ve learned from searching the web is that Canada’s online resources are almost always helpful and simplified compared to many of the sales oriented models that are popular today. Here is an CCOHS infographic (Canada’s equivalent of OSHA) that provides some of the most direct methods to avoid slips, trips and falls in the work place. Just don’t Blame Canada if they’re not what you’re looking for, eh. Most Dangerous Industries for Work Injuries This Safety First infographic is remarkably well-designed and informative, particularly considering it is sponsored by an insurance agency. I found the most interesting portion to be the Top 5 Most Dangerous Industries. Police Officers and Semi-Trailer Truck Drivers make sense, but Janitors and Nurses? Just goes to show that not all injury risks are easy to identify with the naked … er, mind. OSHA’s Affect on USA Workplace Injuries OSHA has been around for over 40 years, and while we all probably realize the value they provide to our collective well being, we may also question its overall benefit from time to time. Here is an infographic that provides information about worker injuries before and after OSHA . 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Posted on December 29, 2014 December 29, 2014 Categories Fall Protection Safety , NewsAnnouncements , Safety Risk Management , TruckingHighway Tags Fall Protection Risk Management , General Industry Fall Protection , Highway ConstructionTraffic Safety , Infographic , OSHA Fall Protection , OSHA TopicsGuidelines , Truck Trailer Fall Protection Safety , Work Safety Trends An Introduction to Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Intelligent transportation systems, also known as ITS Systems, are an integral component to roadway safety and homeland security in the early 21st century. ITS systems monitor and transmit valuable information to traffic safety engineers, are often equipped with automated alert systems, and provide the ability to remotely update messaging and ultimately traffic flow. In addition to these efficiency, data and automation advantages, ITS systems also enhance evacuation systems for security emergencies or natural disasters. While ITS systems encompass a wide range of technologies, they can be broadly defined as follows. Intelligent transportation systems (ITS) are advanced applications which, without embodying intelligence as such, aim to provide innovative services relating to different modes of transport and traffic management and enable various users to be better informed and make safer, more coordinated, and ‘smarter’ use of transport networks. (Source: wikipedia.org ) Consider the following Intelligent Transportation System applications including law enforcement, homeland security and ITS systems for work zone safety. ITS System Applications Intelligent Transportation Systems applications in roadway safety include infrastructure administration, vehicular systems, traffic and mobility management, and highway construction work zone safety. ITS systems utilize nearly every conceivable technology (wireless, cellular, bluetooth, video) to accomplish a wide variety of objectives, from vehicle identification to traffic monitoring. regulatory enforcement, driver communication and traffic management. In the United States, applications for ITS systems in the public sector include enforcement cameras and vehicle monitoring devices. A range of ITS road transport systems are being tested and implemented across the globe, including collision avoidance systems in Japan and variable speed limit signs in England. Considering the range and variation of ITS applications it is clear that technological developments are in the early stage for real world applications. However this also indicates the significance of the technology and suggests that ITS technologies are likely to be...