Stay healthy and safe on the job

The work we do can impact our body and our health. Our work can cause muscle aches and injuries, skin rashes, eye, nose and throat irritation, and other health effects. To protect ourselves we need to know how to prevent risks to our safety and health at work. Our employers can keep us healthy by providing safe conditions.

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This guide will help you identify conditions at work that may cause injuries and provide you with the safety measures needed to protect your health. This guide will help you identify and prevent:

• Muscle aches and pain from all the lifting, reaching, bending, twisting and pushing we do on our jobs;
• Skin, eye and breathing irritation from products we work with;
• Slips and Falls;
• Infections;
• Heat, stress, and other risks to our safety

This guide also includes a section on the importance of talking with your employer to improve conditions and a section on your legal rights at work. At the end of this guide we provide you with maps that you can use to better identify risks to your safety and where they occur in your jobs.