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Safety Ideas Entries
Mr. Dave Sailing, Zalk Josephs Fabricators L. L. C. , Trailer Loading Platform
As is common, ZJ loads trailers from the shop floor or their yard using a travel lift. Working on the trailer presented a possible fall hazard. Climbing from the ground to the trailer also entailed some risk of fall and muscle strain and reduced productivity. To reduce these hazards, ZJ built a platform with an extendable lip and with a stair on each end. The travel lift will straddle two trailers and the platform. The crew loads from the outside in toward the platform.
Mr. Dave Sailing, Zalk Josephs Fabricators L. L. C., Boom proximity indicator
Cranes have to maintain clearance from the proximity of power lines but the distance from a line can be hard to judge. One way would be to put an extension on a jib and hang a rope from it. If the rope hits the line, the crane is at the limit of the proximity.
Mr. Leroy Vanadestine, Cianbro, Reminders
Mr. Vanadestine of Cianbro distributes booklets to the supervisors. One of these is a calendar, but his is a special calendar. In a plastic packet the size of your checkbook he has the company vision and mission, a section titled key elements of success which shows safety as the first element, a description of their 'accident prevention process, their safety goal and their safety statistics for the last 5 years including hand/finger and eye recordables as areas they want to concentrate on, 6 safety activities, sections on financial goals, people goals and customer satisfaction goals. There is a section on first aid procedures including some stretches to loosen up. There is a chart of welding symbols and a list of matching filler metals. A few pages show weight and measure conversions and SI conversion factors. The calendar itself shows when OSHA logs need to be posted, when certain company required reports are due, when equipment needs to be winterized and when some seminars such as right to know and new employee safety will be conducted.
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