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EquipmentWorld.com  January 2010 11 REPORTER by EquipmentWorld staff Visual safety News shorts S how your workers exactly what an unsafe condition looks like by browsing the Library of Construction Occupational Safety and Health's website, eLCOSH.org/images . The CPWR Center for Construc-tion Research and Training's website allows users to browse thousands of free photos by category in order to fi nd images that help to teach construction workers important safety practices. Users can browse image collection by fi ve different categories, in-cluding hazards, injury and illness prevention, jobsite, trade and training Each photo features a description of the hazard and a caption detailing the photo as a good practice or bad practice. Users can download high-resolution versions of the photo directly from the website. All photos from the site are provided by John Rekus, a former Mary-land industrial hygienist who gave hundreds of slides of safety images to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). Mary Watters, director of communications at CPWR, part of the Building and Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO, says the eLCOSH image site complements the original eLCOSH safety programs. Through a simple search, contractors can download safety-training ma-terials for toolbox talks, safety meetings and tailgate meetings. When users fi nd materials on a specifi c topic, the eLCOSH site offers links to pictures from the image site, allowing you to use pictures to teach workers about job site safety. One goal of the site is to encourage contractors, safety trainers and workers to submit pictures with descriptions of the photo, the hazards involved, the trades involved, and the name of the photographer or company providing the picture. EW  Allison Cook Navistar acquires Continental Manufacturing Navistar International has acquired Continental Manufacturing, the largest privately held mixer manu-facturer in North America. Continental will con-tinue to operate indepen-dently with manufacturing operations in Houston, Texas. Navistar will use se-lect International Truck deal-ers to distribute and service mixer and mixer parts. Mixers will continue to be sold and mounted on International brand truck chassis as well as those chassis built by other OEMs. Volvo Construction Equipment shutters Asheville production Volvo will cease manu-facturing at its Ashe-ville, North Carolina, plant in March, moving products to other Volvo locations worldwide. Wheel loader pro-duction will move to Sweden, excavators to South Korea, and motor grader cabs to Volvo's plant in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania. An example of a photo showing unsafe work practices on the eL-COSH site. The trench is partially unsupported, some of the shoring is not braced by screw jacks and there is a loose board above the workers' heads. ew0110_Reporter.indd 11 12/18/09 3:05 PM