Staffing Solutions April 2015 Newsletter

Safety Is in Your Hands
Do your share for a safer workplace

When you think about workplace safety responsibilities, you probably think about all the regulations and all the requirements OSHA puts on management to identify hazards and protect you and your co-workers.  And it’s true that management does have a big share in the responsibility for workplace safety. But OSHA also gives you a share of responsibility for safety on the job.  In return for the right to a safe workplace, OSHA assigns certain specific responsibilities to you and your co-workers, including the responsibility to:

• Obey OSHA standards.
• Follow workplace safety and health rules.
• Use assigned personal protective equipment (PPE).
• Participate in required safety training.
• Report hazardous conditions to management so they can take swift corrective action.
• Report job-related accidents, injuries, and illness to your supervisor and get medical attention.
• Cooperate with OSHA inspectors if they come to inspect our facility.

In addition to these OSHA-assigned safety responsibilities, we ask you to also:

• Take responsibility for learning everything you need to know about your job and work area so that you can always work safely.
• Avoid taking risks and engaging in any unsafe acts.
• Talk to your supervisor any time you have a question about your safety.
• Cooperate in our safety inspection and hazard analysis programs.
• Participate in safety committees and other safety initiatives.
• Look for ways to make your job and the workplace safer and make suggestions about how to do that.

If we all do our share and take responsibility for our safety and the safety of all our co-workers, we can’t fail in our mission to prevent accidents, injuries, and work-related illness. Sure, it’s a big job, and we have to remain vigilant and strive every day to hunt down and eliminate hazards.  But together we can do it! Won’t you pitch in and join with your coworkers?  We need you to succeed.

Focus!
Your safety depends on it

All great athletes have it. So do most successful people in every walk of life.  What is it?  It is focus.  Safe workers have it, too.  And that makes them not only safe but also good at their jobs.  Safe workers can get down to work and concentrate their full attention on the job.  They’re not sidetracked by distractions.  They don’t fool around and waste time.  They just get in there and work.  And they pay attention every single second to make sure they don’t make mistakes or run into hazards that could cause them to have an accident.

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news & notes

PREVENT WORKPLACE STFs

Use this list to prevent slips, trips, and falls.
Do you always:

• Watch where you’re going and look for obstacles in your path?
• Keep aisles, stairs, and walkways clear of materials, cords, and tools?
• Report damaged flooring, loose stair rails, and burned out lights?
• Clean up spills and pick up items from the floor?
• Block off or post signs around areas being cleaned or under repair?
• Take stairs slowly, holding on to the handrail?
• Walk slowly, sliding your feet, on wet or slippery surfaces?
• Wear appropriate work shoes with nonslip soles?
• Make sure shoelaces are tied?
• Use a ladder to reach high places?
• Wear fall protection equipment when required?
• Close drawers when not in use?

 
Do you avoid:

• Carrying loads you can’t see over?
• Wearing baggy or loose pants you could trip over?
• Running from place to place?
• Standing on the top two steps of a stepladder or the top four rungs of a straight ladder?
• Leaning too far in either direction on a ladder or trying to move a ladder while on it?
• Jumping on and off platforms, from loading docks, or from other heights?
• Tilting back in your chair?
• Letting your work area get cluttered with materials, scrap, trash, etc.?

GOT SAFETY SUGGESTIONS?
 

Got some good ideas about how to improve workplace safety? Don’t keep them under your hat. Share them with your supervisor and co-workers. Your ideas could help prevent accidents.