Thursday, December 17, 2009

Here's a frosty workplace hazard assessment

Putting a research station out on a frozen freshwater lake? Establishing a road on an iced-over river? One bit of bedtime reading for you should be Best Practice for Building and Working Safely on Ice Covers in Alberta, by the Government of Alberta, Work Safe Alberta. Those Canadians know their ice.

Even if your campus isn't doing either of those, Appendix D has some great links and tips for surviving ice water immersion.


http://employment.alberta.ca/documents/WHS/WHS-PUB_sh010.pdf

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