08/13/2024: Work to Zero: Leveraging Safety Technology to Eliminate Serious Workplace Injuries and Fatalities

Recorded on Tuesday, August 13, 2024

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Work to Zero: Leveraging Safety Technology to Eliminate Serious Workplace Injuries and Fatalities

About the webinar:

Safety technology can be used in occupational settings to mitigate or even eliminate hazards. However, its implementation in workplaces has not been widely adopted. To understand the state of safety innovation in the workplace, the National Safety Council (NSC) launched its Work to Zero initiative in 2019, supported by a grant from the McElhattan Foundation. The goal of the Work to Zero initiative is to eliminate workplace fatality risk through technology implementation. To do this, Work to Zero research focuses on technology solutions and ways to integrate them into the workplace. This webinar will provide an overview of Work to Zero’s initial research to identify and map viable technology solutions to the top workplace hazards and contributing risk factors, as well as provide insights from recent survey findings illustrating the trends in workers’ perception and use of technology in the last three years.

Learning Objectives

At the completion of this activity, the learner will be able to:

  • Describe the hazardous situations and risks that account for occupational injuries
  • Identify potential safety technology solutions for workplace hazards
  • Describe the barriers to the adoption of safety technology in the workplace
  • Discuss usage trends and perception of safety technology in the last three years

Speaker: Kate Crawford, MS, PhD

Kate Crawford is the Senior Research Manager with Work to Zero at the National Safety Council. The National Safety Council is a mission-based organization working to eliminate the leading causes of preventable death and injury, focusing their efforts on the workplace and roadways. Kate has an MS in Industrial Hygiene and a PhD in Occupational and Environmental Health from the University of Iowa, where she studied as a NIOSH ERC trainee with the Heartland Center. She worked as a postdoctoral research scholar for the Emerging Issues program at the Great Plains Center for Agricultural Health, a NIOSH Agricultural Safety and Health Center. Kate’s research with Work to Zero explores ways to integrate safety technology into the workplace and develops resources to help employers implement safety technology solutions. 

ACCREDITATION

The Center for Occupational and Environmental Health designates this activity for a maximum of 1.0 Contact Hour. Participants should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.

Certificates of Completion

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ACCESSIBILITY:

If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) to fully participate in this event, please contact Michelle Meyer at (510) 642-8365 or mmeyer@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail) with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days in advance of the event.

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About The Northern California Education and Research Center

The goal of the Northern California ERC, a consortium of programs at the University of California’s Center of Occupational and Environmental Health, is to train professionals as practitioner and research leaders in occupational safety and health by offering graduate degrees, residency training, clinical experiences, and research mentorship to trainees. The aim of the ERC is to provide a broad, multidisciplinary educational experience involving student and faculty collaborations in the classroom, laboratory, and field.  Through academic training, research, and community service projects, our faculty and trainees address ongoing and emerging challenges facing US Workers.  Activities are grounded in multi-campus, interactive teaching programs that translate knowledge into information that can be used to improve worker safety and health.