Today’s lesson learned at the Wile E. Coyote school of safety where they constantly disregard the laws of physics, corrupt the rules of nature and live in animated immortality. But here reality kills. Training/Certification – Whether you drive the family wagon or other pieces of powered equipment like a forklift or backhaul you need to be… Read More Safety Lessons Learned From Wile E. Coyote 6
Today’s lesson learned from the Wile E. Coyote school of safety where they constantly defy the laws of physics, perverse the rules of nature and live in animated immortality. But in our world, the earth sucks as gravity still wins. LESSON 3 – Weight Limits. Each of you has a limit on how much weight you can… Read More Safety Lessons Learned From Wile E. Coyote 3
Today’s lesson learned from the Wile E. Coyote school of safety where they constantly defy the laws of physics, perverse the rules of nature, and live in animated immortality. But in our world reality always wins. Lesson two – Daily inspections and checklist. Yea, yea. They’re a pain, every day the same thing, what a… Read More Safety Lessons Learned From Wile E. Coyote 2
It’s Christmas Eve at the Northpole and everybody is busy and celebrating! Santa and the elves did an outstanding job of fixing all the violations which included hours of training and practice and then completing the seemingly impossible task of getting all the toys and gifts that boys and girls around the world had asked… Read More The TopTen OSHA Violations Before Christmas. On the Eve Day
Santa received a notice of violation( 1910.178) Powered Industrial Trucks. This is listed as #7 on OSHA’s TopTen violations for 2019. We must be on the right track because we haven’t seen or heard from the grinch since we began this series. As mentioned yesterday, training is the most critical part of safety. I can’t… Read More The TopTen OSHA Violations Before Christmas. On the Fourth Day
We all deal with limitations of one sort or another and at times we have depended on machinery of some type to help us compensate for those limitations. However, we tend to become enamored by their speed and strength and forget that those pieces of industrial powered machinery have limits themselves as we take them for granted… Read More RBMB-Exceeded Limitations
When a young person dies in war, it is heartbreaking and only somewhat comforting that it was in the service of their country. When a young person dies in an industrial accident it is just as heartbreaking and in both cases the world has lost an original masterpiece, someone who later in their life may… Read More Really Burns My Butt – Die Young
This week Americold Logistics, was issued 2 repeat and 2 serious citations from OSHA at their Manchester facility based on complaints from 3 employees. The employees were forced to use forklifts in need of repair and were not taken out of service as they were trained to do. This really burns my butt. You… Read More Burns My Butt – Double Standards
Nothing says “I care about you” more than a willful safety violation. OSHA’s definition of a WILLFUL violation is ” a violation in which the employer either knowingly failed to comply with a legal requirement (purposeful disregard) or acted with plain indifference to employee safety.” I put that into these terms: Company management knew of the safety… Read More Companies Behaving Badly – Willful a Few Dollars More
It must be a virus! How else can you explain all the falls that are still going on. As of September 6th. 2014 – 1,296 workers died due to their job this fiscal year. In 2013 Falls were the most cited violation in the construction industry as 294 died due to falls (36.9% of all… Read More Companies Behaving Badly – It’s a Virus of Course
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