Category: Weekly Safety Meeting

Weekly Safety Meeting – Cell Phone Safety

Weekly Safety Meeting – Cell Phone Safety

Cell Phone Safety Employees often bring their cell phones to work, a choice that could potentially cause numerous hazards on the job. Cell phones can be a dangerous distraction in the workplace. Just like other workplace distractions such as horseplay and chattering with co-workers, cell phones can cause us to...

Weekly Safety Meeting – Aerial Platform Safety

Weekly Safety Meeting – Aerial Platform Safety

Aerial Platform Safety Jobsites are not always at ground level. Sometimes workers need to use aerial platforms, aerial ladders, articulating boom platforms, vertical towers, or ladder trucks to reach their work. All work has hazards and risks involved in it, but when you work at an elevated height, extra training...

Weekly Safety Meeting – Trench Safety (2)

Weekly Safety Meeting – Trench Safety (2)

Trenching and Excavation Safety Two workers are killed every month in trench collapses. The employer must provide a workplace free of recognized hazards that may cause serious injury or death. An excavation is any man-made cut, cavity, trench, or depression in an earth surface formed by earth removal. Trench (Trench...

Weekly Safety Meeting – Housekeeping (2)

Weekly Safety Meeting – Housekeeping (2)

Housekeeping Did you know that over 2/3 of all accidents involve housekeeping in some way, shape, or form? Approximately 2.5 million disabling injuries happen in the service industry every year with a cost of over 100 billion dollars. Effective housekeeping can eliminate some workplace hazards and help get a job...

Weekly Safety Meeting – Arc Flash Safety

Weekly Safety Meeting – Arc Flash Safety

Arc Flash Safety Simply put, an arc flash is a phenomenon where a flashover of electric current leaves its intended path and travels through the air from one conductor to another or to ground. The results are often violent and when a human is in close proximity to the arc...

Weekly Safety Meeting – Portable Fire Extinguishers

Weekly Safety Meeting – Portable Fire Extinguishers

Portable Fire Extinguishers In the event of a fire, the correct use of a portable fire extinguisher could mean the difference between suffering a minor loss or a major one. Portable fire extinguishers, if used properly, can make that difference. But there are several things to consider in using fire...

Weekly Safety Meeting – Frostbite

Weekly Safety Meeting – Frostbite

Frostbite During winter, many of us will continue to work outdoors, exposed to inclement weather. Just as heatstroke is a serious problem in the summer, frostbite can cause serious injury in the winter. It is important to be able to recognize frostbite symptoms and protect yourself from this serious condition....

Weekly Safety Meeting – GFCI

Weekly Safety Meeting – GFCI

Ground-Fault Circuit-Interrupters (GFCI) The most common electric shock hazard, ground faults, 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 occurs when the electrical...

Weekly Safety Meeting – Care for Your Respirator

Weekly Safety Meeting – Care for Your Respirator

Care for Your Respirator OSHA requires employers to identify and protect against breathing hazards. Engineering controls are the preferred form of protection; e.g., ventilation, using less toxic measures, and enclosing operations that create air contaminants. When air measurements reveal that engineering controls haven’t brought air hazards to safe levels, employers...