PAMPHLETS / BOOKLETS

These resources are available for UNL employees only and are not for sale.

Back Tips for All Activities (National Safety Council)
This booklet will help you correct poor posture and build strength and flexibility in the muscles that support your spine. Doing so will help prevent injury and chronic back pain.

Blood Pressure & Cholesterol
This booklet lists many of the risk factors associated with both high blood pressure and cholesterol. It also contains guidelines and ways to reduce the risk of suffering from these silent killers which contribute to heart disease.

Cancer Prevention
Learn what you can do to reduce your risk of cancer with a healthy lifestyle, screening, and early detection tests.

Control Your Weight: Calories Count
Americans are heavier now than ever, despite spending millions of dollars on weight loss products each year. Learn about calories, portion sizes and how to stop dieting by eating healthy foods in moderation.

Coping with Colds & Flu
Ways to help you avoid catching one of these viruses, and how to recover more quickly if you do.

Coping with Stress
Chronic stress may be the ultimate risk factor, possibly causing 50% of all disease. Evaluate your own stress, and learn some ways to reduce stress in your life.

Cumulative Trauma (National Safety Council)
This booklet will show you how to identify and prevent cumulative trauma and the pain, strain, discomfort, and disability associated with such injuries.

Defensive Driving: The Best Offense (National Safety Council)
Learn how to save money, time and lives by recognizing dangerous driving situations and preventing them from becoming disasters.

Depression: It’s more than the Blues
Learn about signs, symptoms, causes, and treatments of depression--a disease that affects 1 out of 10 people.

Don’t forget to Buckle Up
Learn about airbags, child safety seats, seat belts, and why there’s no excuse for not using these injury-preventing, life-saving devices.

Exercise: The magic bullet
Learn about the benefits of exercise, what kind and amount of exercise is appropriate, and how to set up a successful exercise program for YOU.

Facts about Back Care
This brochure provides helpful hints about lifting, standing, walking, sitting, sleeping, bending, pushing, pulling, and reaching in ways safe for your back. It also describes a number of exercises designed to strengthen the spine, ease back pain, and prevent back problems.

Getting Fit: It's All a Part of the Master Plan
Learn about the benefits of getting fit and general exercise tips. You will also learn what can motivate you to exercise.

Good Housekeeping (National Safety Council)
This booklet will show you how good housekeeping at work can prevent accidents, especially slips, trips, and falls. Maintaining a clean work area will help create a safe working environment for you and your co-workers.

Healthier Fast Food
Eating at a fast food restaurant doesn't mean you have to sacrifice nutrition. Learn how to make healthy food choices when eating out or while grocery shopping.

How to Handle Emergencies
This brochure provides guidelines and procedures to follow when faced with a number of medical and environmental emergency situations.

How to Prevent Back Pain
Learn a few tips and exercises to recover from and prevent back pain—an ailment that will, at some time, affect 80% of us.

How to Handle Stress at Work
Knowing the symptoms of stress is just the first step in learning how to control stress. Learn these symptoms, along with what you can do to reduce or prevent it.

Immunization: A Life Saver
Learn about the most cost-effective medical interventions available for preventing deadly diseases. Get information regarding childhood and adult immunizations from Hepatitis B, to measles, to the flu.

Ladder Safety (National Safety Council)
Learn how to determine the correct ladder for the job and how to safely use it, making your work easier and faster.

Lifting and Carrying (National Safety Council)
This booklet will show you the right way to lift and carry, so you can put more power into your work. You’ll also learn how to keep your back strong and healthy.

Machine Safeguarding (National Safety Council)
The information in this booklet can help keep you and your co-workers safe as you work with machines such as grinders, lathes, drill presses, and any other type of industrial equipment.

Nutrition: Diets Don't Work
Learn why diets just don't work and how to use the Food Guide Pyramid. Knowing what you can do to help control your weight and improve your daily nutrition is just a step in the right direction.

PPE Awareness (National Safety Council)
This booklet is designed to help increase your awareness of the importance of PPE and to provide information on how to maximize your safety in the work place.

Preventing Slips and Falls (National Safety Council)
Falls are the second leading cause of accidental death. From falling down a flight of stairs, to tripping over the curled edge of a floor mat, any falling accident can injure you. This booklet lists some pointers on how to prevent slips, trips, and falls.

Safety Awareness (National Safety Council)
This booklet is designed to help employees recognize unsafe work practices and conditions, follow safety procedures, and how to prevent accidents, injuries, and illness.

Skin Protection (National Safety Council)
One-third of all job-related diseases are those that affect a worker’s skin. This booklet will help employees take better care of their skin and show them how to protect from skin irritation.

Stretching: Staying Limber for Life
This pamphlet reviews why people don't stretch enough and states several benefits to stretching. You can learn ways to stretch and what to do and what not to do while stretching.

Stretching at the Workplace
Many people suffer injuries in the workplace and most of these are preventable. Learn how to make stretching a daily habit and how to stretch the right way.

Supersize Your Meal, Not Yourself
This brochure contains a variety of information designed to keep your meals convenient, tasty, and nutritious. From fruit to fries, and fat to fiber, this booklet is designed to help you eat healthy.

Take the Test of Your Lifetime
Learn how to calculate your life expectancy based on a variety of risk factors and family history. Also learn some steps to a healthier quality and quantity of life.

The E's of Electrical Safety (National Safety Council)
The power of electrical energy helps make our work more comfortable and convenient, but can also do a lot of harm to employees and buildings. Understanding basic information about electricity will help provide a safe work environment.

The MSDS: Your guide to chemical safety (National Safety Council)
This booklet is a simple section by section manual to help employees get to know the way the MSDS works, and how to make it work for them.

The Truth About Fatigue
Many people suffer from fatigue unnecessarily and understanding how you are affected by fatigue is the first step to avoiding it. Learn the signs of fatigue and easy ways to reduce it.

Tobacco Addiction
Tobacco use is deadly, expensive, and often socially unacceptable. Learn the facts about tobacco addiction and the latest on how to quit.

Using Tools Safely (National Safety Council)
This booklet will show you how to control the hazards of hand tools and power tools, and protect yourself and those around you from injury and health problems.

Walking: for the health of it
It’s the simplest, most accessible form of exercise and it may also be the best thing you can do each day to improve and maintain health and well-being throughout life.

Working Safely with your Computer (National Safety Council)
This booklet will show employees how to reduce the sore backs, tired muscles, irritability, stiffness, fatigue and eyestrain that often accompany hours of work at a computer.

Working Well: Workstation Ergonomics
Work should not be a pain! This pamphlet shows you the signs and symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome, a common nerve disorder in the hands, and tips on how to set up your work area.

Workplace Violence (National Safety Council)
Workplace violence is the third leading cause of workplace deaths for all workers, and it can happen to anyone. The information in this booklet can help you protect yourself from violence at work.