2012 Safety Expo
Thursday, September 13, 2012
3pm to 8pm
Crossroads Expo Center
6550 Poe Avenue
Dayton, Ohio
For more details, call: 937.898.4239 or
email: pchaney82@sbcglobal.net
Distributors and Suppliers of safety equipment will be displaying the latest in protective equipment technology.
[Register online as an Exhibitor and/or Sponsor]
Note that reduced rates are in effect till July 1, 2012
Emergency Plans:
The Difference Between Unfortunate Events and a Tragedies
Organizations that plan, train, communicate, and assess their emergency response are likely to have the best outcomes in terms of damage to people and property. People mistakenly assume that community emergency responders will be available with a plan in the event of such events. This is an incorrect assumption.
That's why some companies encourage that employees become CERT-trained. CERT (Community Emergency Response Teams) is a local government program, supported by FEMA, that educates people about disaster preparedness. Training includes fire safety, light search and rescue, team organization, and disaster medical operations. Emergency action plans are strongly suggested that could include:
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Emergency notification
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Medical procedures
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Utility failure
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Elevator failure
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Civil disturbance
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Emergency preparedness
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Supplies
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Drills
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"Team + Work = Safety"
The following information is excerpted from an article entitled "Team + Work = Safety" published a while back in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Marine and Aviation Operations Safety and Environmental Management monthly newsletter.
The article quoted several managers about the importance of teamwork:
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"It takes everyone working together cooperatively for everyone to be truly safe."
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"Teamwork means taking the time to show someone else the safe way to do a job and asking for help if you are not sure what to do."
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"Cooperation of this sort is necessary because we’re all in this together—in life itself—and life, like work, is not only safer and more productive but even more fun when we cooperate.
Remember, new employees need to feel they're part of your safety team from their first day on the job. This is especially important since statistics show that the first few weeks on the job are the most dangerous for new workers.
So don't let new members of your team get sidelined by an accident before they have a chance to make their mark. Welcome them personally to your safety team and encourage their participation in making a safe workplace.
Marijuana Use Doubles Risk of Car Crash, Study Says
Cannabis is the most widely used illicit substance globally and recent statistics have shown a significant increase in use across the world. Rates of driving under influence have also increased, the paper said.
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Asbestos Rule changes took effect March 2, 2012 and will affect contractors, landfills, and large projects.
Ohio EPA is announcing changes to Ohio’s Asbestos Emission Control regulations took effect as of March 2, 2012. These rules affect contractors, landfills and large projects. The rule changes were implemented to provide clarification and to make the rules consistent with the federal asbestos NESHAP regulations at 40 CFR Part 61, Subpart M. Some of the changes include:
A change to the definition of “small fragments” in Ohio Administrative Code (OAC) rule 3745-20-01. OAC Rule 3745-20-01now defines “small fragments” as four (4) square inches or less to be friable or regulated asbestos containing material (RACM). Also, large projects involving the renovation/demolition of multiple residential structures are to be considered a “Facility”.
OAC Rule 3745-20-05has been changed to require that all category two material (Cat ll) to bedisposed at a regulated asbestos landfill.
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Two common types of burns in the workplace are electrical and chemical. Customize the training information in this tip to the burn hazards that are present in your workplace.
Regarding electrical safety, explain to your employees that "unqualified workers" are employees such as machine operators, operators of powered industrial trucks, construction workers, and others who are not qualified to perform electrical work, but who need to know important information about the hazards of electricity and how to prevent serious injury. Electrical burns are one of the biggest hazards and can happen in a fraction of a second. Give your workers these facts about electrical burns.
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Burns are a common shock-related injury.
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Electricity generates heat in the body.
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Thermal burns can occur from hot surfaces and fires.
Electricity in the body generates heat because the body produces resistance. The heating of body tissues results in electrical burns. Second-degree and third-degree burns can occur on the skin, or they may be internal, so that the person may not look seriously injured.
Critical Stroke Indicators
A neurologist says that if he can get to a stroke victim within 3 hours he can totally reverse the effects of a stroke...totally. He said the trick was getting a stroke recognized, diagnosed, and then getting the patient medically cared for within 3 hours, which is tough. [See more]
Fight back the FLU
It’s that time of year again! Each year the flu accounts for 200,000 hospitalizations, 41,000 deaths and an economic impact in excess of $80 billion. However, the risk of outbreak in your place of employment can be significantly lowered through the implementation of engineering controls, administrative controls and work practices.
[see details]
Outrigger Deployment
A recent safety awareness alert concerns outrigger deployment and cites five steps of responsibility in avoiding accidents. [see more]
Excessive Levels of Lead
You may be interested to learn that a recently filed lawsuit claims that Disney’s park in Anaheim, California is poisoning visiting children with lead. It seems to be a serious, legitimate case.
That is the allegation by the Mateel Environmental Justice Foundation, which has gone to court seeking to force the Disney company to post warning signs about the lead or to cover lead-laced surfaces throughout the 56-year-old theme park in Anaheim, CA.
Environmental groups say the Disneyland theme park, which opened in 1955, is riddled with lead. You can find the article here: http://www.paintsquare.com/news/?fuseaction=view&id=6548&nl_versionid=1417
Long Hair, Loose Clothing, and Hazardous Equipment:
A Deadly Combination
No one knows for certain why Michael Smith was trying to go up the down escalator at the Powell Street BART station in San Francisco on April 19, just as no one knows what caused him to fall. But once his hair and clothing became caught in the escalator, he couldn't escape.
Emergency responders shut down the escalator, cut Smith free, and performed CPR, but to no avail. He was declared dead at the hospital.
No one was around to respond this quickly on April 13 when Yale University student Michele Dufault was working on her senior project late at night. By the time fellow students found her around 2 a.m., with her long brown hair caught in a lathe, Dufault was already dead—strangled by the pressure that the lathe, pulling her hair and skin taut, had put on her throat
Although neither Smith nor Dufault were on the job when they died, federal OSHA and Cal/OSHA are conducting investigations.
Federal OSHA is looking into Dufault's death because university employees also use the machine shop where she died. Cal/OSHA is examining Smith's death because its Elevator Unit has jurisdiction in the BART station case.
Entanglement Hazards
Entanglement hazards receive the greatest publicity in the agricultural industry, where nearly 4 in 10 injuries are entanglement related. However, employees operating or working around equipment in industrial settings are also at risk.
Machines and equipment can pose an entanglement hazard if they have:
Pinch points, where two or more parts move together, and one of them is moving in a circle (pulley and belt systems, including conveyors and the escalator that killed Michael Smith fall into this category).
Crush points, where two components move toward each other, as happens in three-point hitches and hydraulic cylinders.
Wrap points, created by exposed rotating components (the lathe that killed Michele Dufault falls into this category, as do power take-off shafts, augers, mixer blades, and other rotating equipment).
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Free Report: Compliance Management in Environment, Health & Safety
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The ABC's of Safety
Gary W. Hanson, President American Safety & Health Management Consultants.
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10 steps to control electrical cabinet problems
Beware of interference when control and power circuits reside in one cabinet.
In brief:
· Interactions between power and control wiring inside a single electrical cabinet can cause performance anomalies.
· There is a simple 10-step procedure for minimizing those problems.
· One must be aware of the wiring color codes currently in effect before troubleshooting cabinet wiring. [See all]
Top Causes of Construction Safety Accidents
[click here]
FDA Drug Safety
[Newsletter index]
Ladder Safety 101
Isolating procedure for a typical medium-voltage gas switch with Dead-Break elbow.
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