Category: Weekly Safety Meeting

Weekly Safety Meeting – Reporting A Near Miss

Weekly Safety Meeting – Reporting A Near Miss

A “near miss” or accident without injury is easy to shrug off and forget. But there is a danger in brushing off accidents that don’t hurt, harm, or damage. When a “near miss” happens, it should immediately send up a red warning flag that something was wrong, unplanned, unexpected, and...

Weekly Safety Meeting – Scaffold Safety

Weekly Safety Meeting – Scaffold Safety

Every year nearly 100 fatalities and 10,000 injuries occur on scaffolding across the country, despite numerous safety regulations aimed to prevent such incidents. There are several different scaffold types, each with different rules and regulations surrounding it’s assembly, fall prevention requirements, and inspection procedures. The good news is that proper...

Weekly Safety Meeting – Portable Grinder Safety

Weekly Safety Meeting – Portable Grinder Safety

Portable grinding wheels are designed to operate at very high speeds. If a grinding wheel shatters while in use, the fragments can travel over 300 miles per hour. The potential for serious injury, material damage, and other losses from these shooting fragments is great. To ensure that grinding wheels are...

Weekly Safety Meeting – Eye Wash Safety

Weekly Safety Meeting – Eye Wash Safety

We all hope we never need an eyewash station, but if an accident should happen it’s our wish that the station is clean and accessible. If a foreign particle enters an eye, an emergency eyewash station is the most important initial step in first-aid treatment. Chemical burns to the eye...

Weekly Safety Meeting – Tetanus – “Lockjaw”

Weekly Safety Meeting – Tetanus – “Lockjaw”

According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Tetanus is an infection caused by bacteria called Clostridium tetani (C. tetani) that are found in the environment. Tetanus is an uncommon but very serious disease, that requires immediate treatment in a hospital. Signs and Symptoms Symptoms typically occur between 3...

Weekly Safety Meeting – Summer Sound Safety

Weekly Safety Meeting – Summer Sound Safety

Every year the National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) supports National Fireworks Safety Month. It may be in June or July each year, but they have a lot say about the safety issues during fireworks activities. This time we will focus...

Weekly Safety Meeting – Trenching and Excavation Safety

Weekly Safety Meeting – Trenching and Excavation Safety

Employers must provide a workplace free of recognized hazards that may cause serious injury or death, but unfortunately every month workers are killed in trench collapses. An excavation is any man-made cut, cavity, trench, or depression in an earth surface formed by earth removal. Trench (Trench excavation) means a narrow...

Weekly Safety Meeting – Ground Fault Circuit Interrupters (GFCI)

Weekly Safety Meeting – Ground Fault Circuit Interrupters (GFCI)

Let’s talk about the most common electrical shock hazard–ground faults. Ground Faults A ground fault can cause severe electrical shock or electrocution. In normal conditions, electricity runs in a closed circuit; Electricity flows out on the “hot” wire and returns on the “neutral” wire, completing the circuit. A ground fault...

Weekly Safety Meeting – Heat is Coming

Weekly Safety Meeting – Heat is Coming

Summer is coming soon and the temperatures are beginning to rise. So too does the risk of heat illness. Heat-related deaths and illness are preventable, yet every year many people will succumb to the effects of heat. Heat-related illness is also an underlying cause of a high percentage of non-fatal...

Weekly Safety Meeting – Lockout, Tagout, and Try Out

Weekly Safety Meeting – Lockout, Tagout, and Try Out

If you operate, clean, service, adjust, or repair machinery and equipment, be aware of the hazards to which you are exposing yourself. Powered equipment could put you in danger, something that can be prevented through lockout/tagout/tryout procedures. Before working on or near any energized equipment, perform an inspection of the...