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Colorado has many beautiful natural areas and parks. The main four national parks are the Black Canyon of the Gunnison, Great Sand Dunes, Mesa Verde and Rocky Mountain National Park. All get thousands of visitors every year, both from within Colorado and from other states, and all have park rangers tasked with keeping things safe….

If there’s any workplace where you can get quick treatment for an injury, it’s a hospital. This leads some people to assume that this line of work is fairly safe. It’s far easier to imagine factory workers getting hurt by heavy equipment, logging workers getting injured at remote locations and construction workers falling from heights….

You may feel safe at work, but the reality is that many people unexpectedly work around combustible materials every day. They do not always realize the dangers that they face. The truth is that workplace explosions can and do happen, and you need to be prepared. Some of the common reasons for these explosions include:…

While many people point to deep sea fishing as the world’s deadliest profession or talk about the high fatality totals in the construction industry — and those things do deserve attention — the reality is that nothing takes more lives per capita than logging. The key is to look at it per 100,000 workers. It’s…

If inhaled in high enough concentrations for too long, hydrogen sulfide, sometimes called H2S gas, can be deadly. Although industries have exposure limits put in place by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), it is up to each individual employer to maintain the monitoring equipment and enforce proper safety protocols. Like any occupation, productivity…

While safety in the manufacturing industry has improved over the years, safety hazards are still a concern. Humans remain at the center of today’s manufacturing processes and are at risk when handling materials and manipulating machinery. Almost no work environment is as hazardous as manufacturing, and injury prevention starts at being aware of these hazards….