PPE
New employees wear this for 90 days to distinguish them from existing employees and to emphasize their unfamiliarity with the facility and inexperience with potential risks.
What is a RED Hard Hat?
Provides health, safety, and environment communication weekly to all employees. Recent topics have included, Road Rage, Fire Extinguishers, and Energy Drink Dangers.
What is SIB?
(Safety Information Bulletin)
The use of this PPE is required when you are within 6' of an unprotected edge or unguarded floor opening, working 6' above your surroundings, or operating a MEWP.
What is Fall protection (harness, lanyard)?
Operators of mobile equipment (loader, forklift, skidsteer, Manbasket, etc.) should complete this action prior to use.
What is a pre shift inspection?
Authority and responsibility all employees possess if they see unsafe work being performed?
What is Stop Work Authority?
These five items, hard hat, safety glasses or goggles with side shield, high-vis outerwear, utility gloves, and 6" lace up steel-toe footwear.
What is the minimum PPE Requirement?
Employees and contractors complete this process/form to identify hazards associated with work tasks and assess their risks at the start of the job.
What is a FRA?
(Field Risk Assessment)
This is a barrier that physically prevents a person inadvertently coming into contact with a moving machine part. Must be manufactured from good quality materials, designed to reduce manual handling risks, and must only be removed with the aid of a tool.
What is a machine guard?
When planning for routine activities with no SOP/SWI, non-routine maintenance work, jobs involving any permit, jobs involving LOTOTO, and jobs involving contractors, what document should you complete prior to starting the job?
What is a Field Risk Assessment?
A potential hazard, event or sequence of events which under slightly different circumstances could have resulted in harm to people or the environment. Examples: A piece of sheet metal falls off a silo, but does not hit anyone.
What is a Near Miss?
Frequency of PPE inspection by each employee, and reporting to supervisor the discovery of excessive wear, damage, or signs of defect.
What is prior to each use?
Equipment worn to minimize exposure to hazards that cause serious workplace injuries and illnesses. Examples include hard hats, gloves, and safety glasses.
What is PPE?
(Personal Protective Equipment)
This signed form is required prior to starting Hot Work in any area not identified as Authorized Hot Work Area.
What is a hot work permit?
On MSHA sites this document contains the name of person conducting the examination; date of the examination; location of all areas examined; and description of each condition found that may adversely affect the safety or health of miners and is not corrected promptly.
What is a workplace exam?
This is the nurse hotline that must be called for all on-site injuries as soon as the injury is reported to the supervisor first-aid and greater (not requiring emergency services). This includes pulled muscles, small lacerations, etc.
What is CORE?
Online safety footwear program, where employees order safety footwear that meet the PPE standard. Offers 60 day return, 1 year warranty, easy online ordering, and free shipping/returns.
What is Lehigh?
This program identified controls necessary to prevent 12 (originally 8) of the most common sources of critical incidents. Examples include,Liquid fuel fire, Mobile equipment incident, and Fall from height.
What is CCM?
(Critical Control Management)
Both of these items should be affixed to each energy-isolation device by each employee working on the equipment.
What is a personal safety lock and Tag with name on it?
Mobile equipment must not be left unattended unless, the parking brake is set, Wheel chocks or equivalent are used, and what is the last requirement per our standard.
What is remove key from ignition.
A type of safety exercise to rehearse emergency procedure that helps people prepare for and respond to an emergency.
What is an emergency drill?
This document provides information on the safe handling and use of chemicals. Section 8 of this document will provide guidance on additional PPE requirements such as neoprene gloves, face shield, etc.
What is a SDS (Safety Data Sheet)?
This is a form that must be reviewed (created if one does not exist) prior to working at heights, used to break down each step, identify hazards, then implement hierarchy of controls. It is also referenced on the working at heights permit in the first question.
What is a FHRA?
Large enough for bodily entry, limited or restricted means for entry or exit and is not designed for continuous occupancy. Examples include include, but are not limited to, tanks, silos, storage bins, hoppers, pits, tunnels, trommels, etc.
What is a confined space?
This is a safety practice where when climbing or descending a ladder, vehicle, or other elevated surface, you always maintain contact with two hands and one foot, or two feet and one hand, to minimize the risk of falls.
What is three points of contact?
This is the minimum amount of time you should flush your eyes when using an eyewash station or bottled solution.
What is 15 minutes?