4 Mar, 2024

Assign Task, Complete Task, Inspect Completed Task.

By |2024-03-04T11:00:08-07:00March 4th, 2024|Avoiding Work Place Injury, Employee Safety, Hazard Identification, Miner Safety, Oil and Gas Safety, OSHA Safety, Safety practices, Uncategorized, Utility Construction Safety, Worker Safety|0 Comments

Assign Task, Complete Task, Inspect Completed Task. Any time a task is required, say a repair or part replacement, that task was initiated for a reason. If a piece of equipment requires repair, that task is assigned to the appropriate person. The next step is task completion. The final step is to take a few [...]

11 Oct, 2023

Learn how to not burn.

By |2023-10-11T15:38:48-06:00October 11th, 2023|Avoiding Work Place Injury, Employee Safety, Employer OSHA Compliance, Hazard Identification, Miner Safety, Mining, Oil and Gas Safety, OSHA Safety, Safety practices, Safety programs, Worker Safety|0 Comments

Learn how to not burn.  This safety task is fairly simple.  According to OSHA identify potential sources of flammable gases and then identify potential ignition sources.  You identify potential sources of flammable gases by knowing what flammable gases which could potentially be on site.  Do this by examining your job site and identify activities involving [...]

22 Sep, 2023

Signs Matter in the real world.

By |2023-09-22T10:12:04-06:00September 22nd, 2023|Avoiding Work Place Injury, Hazard Identification, Miner Safety, Mining, Uncategorized|0 Comments

Some young people go swimming in a closed mine.  They have to sneak through a fence and then pass several dozen hazard warning signs to get to the accumulated water in the mine site. Signs Matter in the real world.  It’s a hot summer day, very little breeze and any means of cooling off is [...]

6 Sep, 2023

Mine Safety Health Administration Safety Alerts.

By |2023-09-06T09:16:41-06:00September 6th, 2023|Avoiding Work Place Injury, Employee Safety, Mine Safety Training, Miner Safety, Mining, Safety practices, Safety programs, Worker Safety|0 Comments

Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) provides support for mine safety in ways other than mere inspections and citations.  MSHA also provides a great resource for making known safety hazards which exist at many mines.  Topics of these Safety Alerts include vehicle rollovers, roof and rib safety guidance, and pillar collapses, among many others. Go [...]

11 Aug, 2023

Stop work authority

By |2023-08-11T15:44:34-06:00August 11th, 2023|Avoiding Work Place Injury, Employee Safety, Employer OSHA Compliance, Hazard Identification, Mine Safety Training, Miner Safety, Mining, Oil and Gas Safety, OSHA Safety, Safety practices, Safety programs, Worker Safety|0 Comments

What is stop work authority? Will this stop my production? Does this mean my project schedules are delayed hours?  Days?  Nope.  In fact, stop work authority can save you, the employer, potentially 10’s or 100’s of hours of time and man hours spent handling the aftermath of a seriously injured employee.  Think OSHA investigations and [...]

26 Jul, 2023

Drugs/Alcohol in the work place.

By |2023-07-26T13:45:27-06:00July 26th, 2023|Avoiding Work Place Injury, Employee Safety, Employer OSHA Compliance, Hazard Identification, Mine Safety Training, Miner Safety, Mining, Oil and Gas Safety, OSHA Enforcement, OSHA Safety, Safety practices, Safety programs|0 Comments

Drugs/Alcohol in the work place. Drugs in our society, be it licit or illicit, are not uncommon.  Operating equipment of any kind or the work place is not suitable for drug use (including some prescription drugs).   The reason being is that  many drugs can effect or impair mental and physical function.  On the job, one [...]

19 Jul, 2023

MSHA Equipment Hazard alerts:

By |2023-07-19T08:05:04-06:00July 19th, 2023|Avoiding Work Place Injury, Employee Safety, Mine Safety Training, Miner Safety, Mining, Safety practices, Worker Safety|0 Comments

MSHA Equipment Hazard alerts: As you know various manufacturers from time to time issue product recalls or some other quality problem notice.  I was intrigued to learn that the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) does the same think. MSHA has two types of alerts; one a safety alert the other is an Equipment Hazard [...]

3 Jul, 2023

Learn how to not burn.

By |2023-07-03T10:42:18-06:00July 3rd, 2023|Avoiding Work Place Injury, Employee Safety, Employer OSHA Compliance, Miner Safety, Mining, Oil and Gas Safety, OSHA Safety, Safety practices, Safety programs, Worker Safety|0 Comments

Learn how to not burn.  This safety task is fairly simple.  According to OSHA identify potential sources of flammable gases and then identify potential ignition sources.  You identify potential sources of flammable gases by knowing what flammable gases which could potentially be on site.  Do this by examining your job site and identifying activities involving [...]

6 Jun, 2023

Learn how to not burn.

By |2023-06-06T10:46:27-06:00June 6th, 2023|Avoiding Work Place Injury, Employee Safety, Employer OSHA Compliance, Hazard Identification, Mine Safety Training, Miner Safety, Oil and Gas Safety, OSHA Safety, Safety practices, Safety programs, Worker Safety|0 Comments

Learn how to not burn.  This safety task is fairly simple.  According to OSHA identify potential sources of flammable gases and then identify potential ignition sources.  You identify potential sources of flammable gases by knowing what flammable gases which could potentially be on site.  Do this by examining your job site and identify activities involving [...]

19 May, 2023

Training: Its not just for newbies.

By |2023-05-19T09:28:26-06:00May 19th, 2023|Avoiding Work Place Injury, Employee Safety, Employer OSHA Compliance, Ladder and stairway safety, Lock Out Tag Out, Mine Safety Training, Miner Safety, Mining, Oil and Gas Safety, OSHA Safety, Safety practices, Safety programs, Worker Safety|0 Comments

Training, it’s not just for newbies.  Training, and refresher training, is an excellent method of keeping in front of employees (this includes top management to new hires) abreast of not only OSHA safety regulations but your company’s safety policies and practices. Knowing how to safely carry out work tasks is simple, but very important.  Remembering [...]

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