June 2024
June 14, 2024 - National Safety Month and CPR and AED Awareness Week (June 1 - 7)
National Safety Month was first established in 1996 by the National Safety Council and is celebrated all throughout June to help keep each other safe from the workplace to anyplace.
CPR and AED Awareness Week is from June 1st – June 8th and passed by Congress on December 13, 2007 to raise awareness on how learning to perform CPR and how to use an AED can save lives.
The weekly themes for National Safety Month this year was:
Safety Engagement, Roadway Safety, Risk Reduction, and Slips, Trips, and Falls.
Safety Engagement
This includes knowing basic first aid, such as being able to being able to administer CPR, and knowing what and where tools and resources that can help keep you safe are located either at home, at work, or when you’re out and about.
~ About 70% of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests happen in the home, so learning these skills and being able to perform them can save someone’s life, even your families.
Roadway Safety
In 2022 motor vehicle incidents was #3 in top 10 preventable injuries.
It is important to remain undistracted when driving and keep in mind that looking at your phone for even just a second can make a difference when an accident occurs. Also, make sure that you’re aware of yourself if you’re tired or inebriated, have someone else drive, or wait until you’re in a better position to drive. Be mindful of bicyclists and pedestrians on the road and always double-check to make sure that you don’t leave any children or pets in your car, especially as the weather starts getting hotter.
~ In 2022, the National Safety Council preliminary data shows that 46,027 people have died in motor vehicle crashes in the United States:
- 43% of deaths were from collisions between other motor vehicles
- 26.5% of deaths were from colliding with a fixed object
Risk Reduction
Focuses on preventing injuries on the job or in daily life.
- In 2022, the top 3 preventable injuries in the United State were Poisoning, Falling, and Motor Vehicle accidents. Preventable work deaths totaled 4,695, and workplace medically consulted injuries totaled 4.53 million.
- Leading cause of poisoning in the United States are from drug overdoses.
- In 2023, Lynn had a total of 381 opiate overdoses and 39 deaths.
- Other causes of poisoning include accidental drug or chemical ingestion and exposures to environmental substances.
Slips, trips, and falls
This can happen anywhere; at work and at home.
- Between 2021 – 2022, falls at work accounted for 20% of occupational injuries involving days away from work at 450,540.
- One-third of all non-fatal injuries in the United States are from falls.
- In 2020, falls resulted in 36,000 deaths among adults 65 and older and more than 800,000 patients are hospitalized each year because of injuries due to a fall.
The information above is from the National Safety Council.
For more information, please visit: https://www.nsc.org/workplace/national-safety-month
