Visitors/Emergency Response
The process for ensuring visitors understand the office hazards, Emergency Response Plan and are accompanied throughout their visit.
What is the visitor orientation (using SwipeOn).
GRA: Provides risk identification for offices to develop a Project Specific Safety Plan.
What is the Group Risk Assessment?
NOTE: The GRA is located on the HSE Posting board for your review.
The software used to track all office worker attendance within each office.
What is SwipeOn.
An Alberta legislated requirement, for employers that employ 20 or more workers, ensuring cooperation between the employer and the workers with respect to Health and Safety.
What is a Joint Health and Safety Committee.
The process for longer term visitors (more than one day) to ensure their Health and Safety.
What is a Graham HSE Orientation,
NOTE: Completed by the employee responsible for them throughout their duties at Graham, with assistance from HSE.
FLRA
An assessment used in the field by workers and/or crews to identify hazards and risks prior to starting routine tasks, as well as when conditions change.
What is a field level risk assessment?
NOTE: This is not a requirement for Office duties.
A best practice recommended as a result of statistics that demonstrate that roughly one in seven vehicle incidents occur in parking lots.
What is backing into parking stalls.
A person designated to act on behalf of the workers within the structure of a Joint Health and Safety Committee.
What is a Health and Safety representative.
The process following hearing the siren (in Corporate office) or a long air horn (in the Infrastructure office)
What is the evacuation process.
SOPs
Are guiding principles to ensure Graham personnel, Workforce Partners, Subcontractors and workers are familiar with their daily field activities and/or tools and equipment.
What is a safe operating practices?
Observed annually in Canada on this date, the National Day of Mourning is dedicated to remembering those who have lost their lives, suffered injury or illness on the job, or experienced a work-related tragedy.
What is April 28th?
Names of the Joint Health and Safety Committee are posted here.
What is the HSE Posting Board.
The person in charge of determining when all workers may return to work after an evaluation.
Who is the office manager or designate.
PSSP
Every project shall develop this document to supplement the Health, Safety and Environmental Management System.
What is a Project Specific Safety Plan?
NOTE: The printed PSSP is located in Gisele Turner's office for your review.
Regarding the 3 stages of heat-related illness; the 1st stage is heat cramps, the 2nd stage is heat exhaustion, and this, the 3rd stage, can include symptoms such as confusion, lack of sweat, and seizures, and is considered a medical emergency – get help – fast !
What is heat stroke?
The contractor, chosen by the owner, where two or more employers exist, with it's main role for coordinating health and safety on a work site.
What is a Prime Contractor.
The location are where you can obtain a list of certified First aiders within your office building.
What is the HSE Posting Board.
PQRA: Provides initial quality risk assessment for projects to develop a Project Specific Quality Plan.
What is Project Quality Risk Assessment.
This common mineral found in the earth's crust is also contained in materials like sand, stone, concrete, and mortar, but workers who inhale very small crystalline particles are at increased risk of developing serious diseases including respiratory illnesses, lung cancer, and kidney disease.
What is silica?
The employer must develop this to ensure:
a) a written process for selection of committee members.
b) a frequency of meetings is confirmed.
c) a process is known for forwarding health and safety concerns to the employer.
What is a terms of Reference.