In this week’s Safety News Summary: You’ve got a shooter (like in the Aurora theater). What do you do? Heavy patients are weighing down hospital workers. It’s not just workplaces that are getting louder. And 21 people attending a motivational seminar burn their feet while fire walking.

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Tags: Aurora shootings, fire walk, lifting patients, loud workplaces

Today we start a new feature, Safety News Summary. Each week, we’ll provide a quick summary of new, useful safety info on the web. This week: workers’ comp fraud, pain medications, using equipment the way it’s meant to be, stranger danger, and OSHA’s I2P2 initiative.

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Tags: injury and illness prevention program, pill mills, ride escalator in wheelchair, stranger danger, war on drugs