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Safety and Health Factsheets
List of Publications
The Occupational Safety and Health Department publishes fact sheets, booklets and other written materials throughout the year. To print a fact sheet, click on a link below. To obtain a booklet call us at (212) 815-1685 and we will mail you one.
Fact sheets (PDF)
- Accident Prevention (Spanish only)
- The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
- Asbestos (English and Spanish)
- Backing Up Safety
- Bed Bugs
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (English)
- Cleaning Chemicals (English and Spanish)
- Cold Stress
- Complying with the ADA: Removing Barriers
- Construction Industry: Lead Exposure Standard
- Coronavirus
- Disabilities and Impairment Defined
- Ebola
- Fall Protection: On the Edge
- Fire (English and Spanish)
- Fire Prevention Procedures for Individuals with Disabilities
- The General Industry Asbestos Standard
- Hazard Communication (English)
- Heat Stress
- Hearing Conservation Program
- Hepatitis B: Another Bloodborne Pathogen
- Influenza (Flu)
- Latex Gloves
- Multi Vector-Borne Diseases (WNV, Lyme, Powassan)
- New York State Right to Know Law (English)
- Paper Mites: Do they exist?
- Permit-Required Confined Spaces Standard
- Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
- Pigeon Control: Preventing Disease
- Repetitive Stress Injuries
- Respiratory Protection
- Risk Mapping
- Safe Lifting Techniques (English and Spanish)
- Stressed Out? (English and Spanish)
- Tool Safety
- Transmission of Infectious Diseases
- Tuberculosis
- VDT Contract Language
- West Nile Virus
- Workplace Violence Prevention
- Work Zone Traffic Safety
- Zika Virus
Booklets
- Trainers’ Guide for Developing Occupational Safety and Health Training
- Work Hazard Surveillance System
