The Glass Association of North America (GANA) and the Insulating Glass Manufacturers Alliance (IGMA) are presenting a free glass and glazing webinar. According to the associations, "Reducing Glass Handling Injuries among Foreign Born and Younger Workers" was created to reduce or prevent injuries among foreign born and younger workers handling flat glass by reviewing recent incidents, current regulations and training methods to analyze the safety of this large segment of workers in the flat glass industry.
The presentation is a follow-up to GANA and IGMA's previous "Fatalities and Injuries during Flat Glass Handling" in March. This safety webinar will be hosted by Mike Burk of Quanex Building Products and chairman of the IGMA Glass Safety Awareness Council.
"The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has released its preliminary Census of Occupational Fatal Injuries Summary for 2011," says Burk. "This BLS summary reports that fatal injuries among workers in the 20 to 24 age group were up nearly 18 percent. Fatal injuries among Hispanic or Latino workers rose from 707 in 2010 to 729 in 2011, an increase of 3 percent. There were 823 fatal work injuries involving foreign-born workers in 2011 of which the greatest share (338 or 41 percent) were born in Mexico. Many of the manufacturing workers in our industry are members of these groups."
The webinar will take place on October 30, 2012 at 1 p.m. EDT. Registration for the presentation is available online.
