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Your Source for the Latest in Workplace Safety
Issue 2, Summer 2003

Welcome to SafetyNET
A safe workplace is no accident. It takes a strong commitment to safety and information you can trust. SafetyNET—the new quarterly online newsletter from your American Red Cross—is a great way to supplement your health and safety training by helping employees prevent, prepare for and respond to emergencies.

Please share SafetyNET with all of your employees. With topics on healthy living and safety measures employees can share with their families, SafetyNET will help keep safety a priority, both in and out of the workplace.

You Can Prevent Disease Transmission - Here's How
Concerned about your safety while helping a hurt friend or co-worker? The American Red Cross teaches you how to protect yourself and the people you care for.
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Warning Signs: Recognize These Heart Attack Signals to Help Save a Life
Did you know that nearly one million people die each year from cardiovascular disease? And of these, more than half are a result of heart attacks? Though a heart attack has some common warning signs, not everyone experiences the same symptoms.
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Responding to Heat-Related Illness
Going to your company's picnic this summer? Many people will and they'll engage in volleyball games, softball games and more. Would you know what to do if one of your co-workers suffered from heat exhaustion?
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Protect Yourself: Workplace Disaster Preparedness Tips
If a disaster strikes the community where you work, will you be prepared to respond? The American Red Cross encourages all companies and their employees to follow these tips - from creating an emergency communication plan to building a personal workplace disaster supplies kit.
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Each year, the American Red Cross trains more than five and a half million people in lifesaving skills such as first aid, CPR and AED (automated external defibrillator) use. More often than not, people who take Red Cross courses are surprised to learn that they have been performing many first aid procedures incorrectly all along. Click here to learn how to avoid common first aid errors and more.

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