Baton Rouge, LA — The OSHA Region 6 Training Institute Education Centers recently released a video on recognizing and controlling common hazards in oil and gas exploration.
The one-hour video features various topics critical to the industry and offers recommendations on how workers can prevent injuries and deaths. Hazard topics include:
- Falls
- Transportation
- Struck-by/caught-in/caught-between
- Hydrogen sulfide
- Heat illness
Registration is required to access the free video.
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More than 450,000 workers are employed in the oil and gas exploration field, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and nearly 500 were killed between 2013 and 2017.
