Safety
Amazon’s internal safety and injury response organization located within Amazon facilities.
What is AmCare?
Drivers must stop and park trailer a minimum of this distance from the dock door before opening or closing trailer doors.
What is 20 feet?
The method you should use to safely go up and down hostler stairs.
What is three points of contact?
Reporting any unsafe conditions, accidents, and injuries immediately.
What are the Standards of Conduct?
The SCAC for Amazon owned non-intermodal assets.
What is AZNG?
Freight leaning against a trailer door which is at risk of falling when opening the door.
What is a Controlled Fall?
Secure this on the trailer door to anchor points on both doors by locking the hooks into the fixed door latches, and making sure both ends are properly secured.
What is a safety strap?
The active or passive alert that causes the engine to rev, idling anywhere from 750 to 1000 RPMs.
What is Regen?
The action a TA should take if a tool, a door, or a gate doesn't work as it should.
What is escalate?
This is attached to AZNG trailers for any load leaving a site or coming into a site from another AMZ site.
What is VRID?
This person is required any time there is work performed in the yard that takes attention away from viewing yard traffic.
Who is a Spotter?
The final application after you've opened both trailer doors, re-secured the driver side door, then removed the safety strap from the passenger side door.
What is secondary securement?
The maximum speed limit for drivers using day cabs to perform hostler operations in the yard.
What is 5 mph?
When working around operable tractor-trailers in the yard, maintain safe minimum distances inside of this.
What is the safety bubble?
The Amazon line haul network's track and trace controllers, whose job is to ensure that Amazon-managed, customer-facing loads arrive to their origins and destinations on time.
Who is ROC?
Failure to properly complete and report a DVIR, and willfully operating equipment that has an open defect will result in this type of Safety infraction.
What is a Category 2 Safety infraction?
When a trailer has been identified as unsafe to load, unload, or move, this is what must be done.
What is Red Tag?
When the engine is running, the driver must stay within this distance of the hostler vehicle.
What is 6 feet?
You are maintaining this in the yard if you never put your back to oncoming traffic in queue areas, and constantly scan for vehicles as they move.
What is situational awareness?
An agency in the DOT responsible for regulating the trucking industry.
What is FMCSA?
This standard is to ensure chemical safety in the workplace by requiring all employers with hazardous chemicals in their workplaces to have labels and safety data sheets for their exposed workers, and to train them to handle the chemicals appropriately.
What is Hazard Communication Standard (HCS)?
Hostler moves are sometimes wrongly requested while the trailer is still locked on the Dock Door, resulting in this violation.
What is Hook On Red?
Hostlers being driven on open defects require this, after prior approval by DSS to operate the vehicle.
What is a paper DVIR?
The method used to prevent hookup to air brakes in order to prevent the movement of equipment that is unsafe.
What is Glad Locking?
A repository of planned loads which shows scheduled arrival/departure times.
What is FMC?