008 - Big 4 Factors for Eliminating Heat Stress Illness & Fatalities

03/04/22 • 28 min

Overview

After professional football player Korey Stringer died from complications of heat stroke in August of 2001, his wife Kelci teamed with heat stroke expert Douglas Casa, Ph.D., ATC to form the Korey Stringer Institute at the University of Connecticut in April, 2010. The institute has identified four “big ticket” items that, if followed, will almost certainly eliminate HRI's and fatalities on the playing field AND the job site. Margaret Morrissey, Director of KSI Laborer Division joins us to talk about those big ticket items and what the future has in store for heat stress prevention.

Show highlights:

· Learn the key components to build your heat stress program around

· Explore how the world of athletics informs heat illness prevention on the job

· Uncover the biggest mistake rookie workers make when working in the heat

· Recognize those most at risk for heat-related illness

· Identify additional prevention measures when water, rest and shade aren't enough

Featured guest:

Margaret Morrissey, Director of Occupational & Military Safety, Korey Stringer Institute; President, National Heat Safety Coalition

Overview

Show highlights:

· Learn the key components to build your heat stress program around

· Explore how the world of athletics informs heat illness prevention on the job

· Uncover the biggest mistake rookie workers make when working in the heat

· Recognize those most at risk for heat-related illness

· Identify additional prevention measures when water, rest and shade aren't enough

Featured guest:

Margaret Morrissey, Director of Occupational & Military Safety, Korey Stringer Institute; President, National Heat Safety Coalition

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007 - Brain Jiggle is Bad: The Injury Your Hard Hat Overlooks

Overview:

The traditional hard hat design actually does what it was designed to do really well, and that’s preventing head injuries from objects striking workers directly—linear impacts. What it doesn’t account for as well are glancing blows or angled impacts that create rotational forces to the brain which can have long lasting, detrimental effect to worker health.

Olof Rylander, Sr Business Developer of Safety for Mips joins us to discuss how his company is addressing this worksite risk by boosting the protection power of safety helmets with an innovative safety system aimed at reducing rotational motion.

Show Highlights:

The current blindspot in hard hat and safety helmet testing
The difference between angled and direct impacts
Rotational motion and its long-lasting damage to the brain
How Mips works to mitigate rotational motion

Featured Guest:

Olof Rylander, Sr. Business Developer of Safety for Mips

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009 - Look Out Below: What Are Safety Pros Doing to Prevent Dropped Objects?

Show Highlights
In 2020, dropped objects accounted for over 45,000 injuries, over 200 fatalities, and approximately $315,000,000 in financial costs.
A major step in mitigating this damage was the development of ANSI/ISEA 121-2018 — a standard for design, testing, performance and labeling requirements for tool tethering systems and containers used when working at height. The “dropped objects standard” set best practices in place for dropped and falling objects prevention every safety manager should know but, according to the aforementioned stats, not enough do. Which is why we set out to better understand the industry’s pulse on object-at-heights workplace safety. On this episode of Radio Free Tenacity, safety advocate Cameron Swanson joins us to give his perspective on the data, how far we’ve come and the work that needs to be done to ensure dropped object safety becomes SOP when working at height.
Featured Guest:
Cameron Swanson, VP of EHS and Compliance, Enertech. Enertech is a leader in engineering, technology deployment and construction services for the wireless industry.
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How to Implement a Dropped Objects Prevention Plan
[Industry Survey] What are EHS Professionals Doing to Prevent Dropped Objects?