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13 Mar, 2024

Noise: Shouting and smart phones.

By |2024-03-13T09:06:42-06:00March 13th, 2024|Uncategorized|0 Comments

Shouting and smart phones.   You likely know that the Occupational Safety Healthy Act (OSH Act) has a noise level limit.  But how do you know whether noise you are being exposed to exceeds the OSH Act limits? ( 85 decibels).  After all, not many of us, even us safety guys, carry around noise dosimeters. Here [...]

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 [...]

10 Jan, 2024

Training.

By |2024-01-10T13:01:04-07:00January 10th, 2024|Uncategorized|0 Comments

You no doubt have training programs for your employees.  You have likely heard from others that training is important.  Many times, businesses provide training on the topics set forth in their safety manual.  This is great.  The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Mine Safety Health Administration (MSHA) both require training.  For OSHA [...]

1 Nov, 2023

Operators manuals-Read, be safe, avoid injuries

By |2023-11-01T09:53:55-06:00November 1st, 2023|Uncategorized|0 Comments

Operators’ manuals-Read, be safe, avoid injuries. Operator’s manuals.  Almost every piece of equipment today comes with operator’s manuals.  Just how important is an operator’s manual in the safety world?    Well, consider this:  Some Occupational Safety Health Act (OSHA) safety regulations require that equipment be operated according to specifications set forth in the manufacturer’s operators manual.  [...]

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 [...]

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