I never knew or had heard of this interesting (and very pertinent) fact. I spent all day today in a training class about Hazard Mapping. You draw a picture of an equipment area and you identify all of the hazards - pinch points, electrical, chemicals, other physical hazards (high work, falls, etc.) and you just lay it all out. It's a great visual for anybody working in an unfamiliar area.
They've got a two-hour module about how to draw the map (color codes for the different hazards, hazard ranking 1-4, etc), but we're into the 12-hour version. A day and a half.
So for time filler, I think they went down some side roads. You can get a chemical on your skin, whatever chemical. The absorption rate varies drastically depending on what part of your body is doused with it. The feet and the hands, low absorption rate. The forehead, high absorption rate.
This is no joke, we made a lot of jokes about it today, but presented as fact in the training session.
The highest absorption rate on a male's body is the scrotum. 100 times higher than the lowest absorption rate, on other parts of the body. One HUNDRED TIMES HIGHER. So if you get some junk on your junk, you're in for a really bad day. And wash your hands BEFORE going to the can if you work around chemicals. That was the message.
PSA, I never knew that. Told for the truth.
They've got a two-hour module about how to draw the map (color codes for the different hazards, hazard ranking 1-4, etc), but we're into the 12-hour version. A day and a half.
So for time filler, I think they went down some side roads. You can get a chemical on your skin, whatever chemical. The absorption rate varies drastically depending on what part of your body is doused with it. The feet and the hands, low absorption rate. The forehead, high absorption rate.
This is no joke, we made a lot of jokes about it today, but presented as fact in the training session.
The highest absorption rate on a male's body is the scrotum. 100 times higher than the lowest absorption rate, on other parts of the body. One HUNDRED TIMES HIGHER. So if you get some junk on your junk, you're in for a really bad day. And wash your hands BEFORE going to the can if you work around chemicals. That was the message.
PSA, I never knew that. Told for the truth.
Comment