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Falls on Stairs

This educational film examines causes and prevention of workplace falls on stairs. Topics include stairway design, lighting, maintenance, housekeeping, slick substances, and fall-prone activities. This film is from Kansas State University's web-based course, GENAG 712, Occupational and Agricultural Injury Prevention. Copyright 2012, Mitch Ricketts. For an illustrated transcript, copy and paste the following URL into your web browser: http://www.ksre.ksu.edu/agsafe/p.aspx?tabid=59

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Science and Technology / Engineering / Industrial and Systems

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Material Type:: Presentation
Date Added to MERLOT:: July 19, 2012
Date Modified in MERLOT:: August 5, 2014
Author:: Mitch Ricketts, Kansas State University
Submitter:: Mitch Ricketts
Primary Audience:: High School, College General Ed, College Lower Division, College Upper Division, Graduate School, Professional
Technical Format:: Video

Mobile Compatibility:: Not specified at this time
Language:: English
Cost Involved:: No
Source Code Available:: Unknown
Accessibility Information Available:: Unknown
Creative Commons:: This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States