Building Safety
These should be provided and maintained on the inside of building entrances.
What are floor mats?
Ensure that attic vents are open, repair damaged shingles and flashing, clean gutters and downspouts, and develop a plan to deal with snow loads are all things you can do to protect this part of your home or building.
What is the roof?
Employees responding to a situation where blood or body fluids are present shall wear these.
What are disposable gloves (and eye protection if it might be splashed).
What is Ergonomics?
The purpose of this is to bring workers and management together in a non-adversarial, cooperative effort to promote safety and health in the workplace.
What is the Joint Loss Prevention Committee?
Cords, boxes, furniture, loose materials, and debris could all be considered this.
What is a tripping hazard?
To help prevent these, turn off water supply to exterior spigots, wrap and insulate pipes, and know how to shut the water off.
What are frozen pipes?
All hazardous chemical wastes will be collected in these types of containers, no larger than one-gallon capacity.
What are glass or plastic?
Name three of the 10 items you must check prior to using your city vehicle each day.
What are lights, horn, windshield, wipers and washer, brakes, tires, gas, rear view mirrors, seat belts, and windows for visibility?
Membership in the safety committee shall be comprised of equal number of employer and employee representatives, with the employee representatives being selected by this?
What is the collective bargaining unit?
This should be installed and firmly attached at entrances and stairways.
What is a handrail?
To prevent these common injuries, repair handrails, provide water absorbant mats in entryways, and place buckets of sand and salt near building entrances and walkways.
What are slips and falls?
Exposure to this shall ot exceed 140 dB peak sound pressure level, and it if does protective equipment shall be provided.
What is noise?
Any material containing this cancer causing substance must be maintained in a condition that is is not capable to releasing fibers into the air.
What is asbestos?
The JLPC committee shall elect these three positions to serve on a revolving term at the October meeting each year.
What are Chairperson, Co-chairperson, and Secretary?
In case of fire, these should be properly identified and accessible.
What are fire extinguishers or fire alarm pulls?
To ensure a warm winter inside, be sure to have this system serviced by qualified personnel, replace system filters, and remove any combustible materials from the area.
What is the heating system?
If involved in a motor vehicle accident, the employee must immediately notify this person.
What is the supervisor?
Use these Cost Guard approve items whenever working over or near water where the danger of drowining exists.
What are life jackets or PFD's?
This committee is made of up of representatives from city departments as well as other community organizations that have resources and skills to respond to and mitigate community emergencies.
What is the Berlin Emergency Management Committee?
These should open freely and provide an unobstructed path to an outside public area.
What are exit doors?
One strategy to prevent slips and falls on ice is to provide these lightweight items that fit over footwear and provide traction.
What are footwear traction devices or YakTrax?
What are alcoholic beverages?
To ensure that machines or equipment is isolated from all potentially hazardous energy, they must be this before performing any service or maintenance activites where the unexpected start-up could cause injury.
What is lock out/tag out?
This position on JLPC shall rotate between management and labor on an annual basis, serving for one-year terms.
What is the Chairperson?