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Health Safety Security. How do we insure a healthy workforce ? How do we encourage employees to invest in their own wellness ?. How do we get people to think and act safely on the job ? What happens when accidents happen?. 5,071 workers died on the job in 2008.
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How do we insure a healthy workforce?How do we encourage employees to invest in their own wellness?
How do we get people to think and act safely on the job?What happens when accidents happen?
2/14/2010 HansellMitzel Homes LLC, Mt. Vernon, WA. Worker was crushed by the bulldozer he was operating. He was transported to the hospital where he later died. • 2/14/2010 Severstal Sparrows Point, LLC, Sparrows Point, MD. Worker was descending from the cab/platform built into the side of the vehicle. The worker fell backwards and landed on the concrete floor. • 2/16/2010 Sound Storage Management, Everett, WA. Worker was bitten by a customer's dog at a gated storage facility while on duty. Worker passed away two days later at the hospital from blood poisoning related to the dog bite. • 2/18/2010 A to Z Island Maintenance, Inc., Chinquapin, NC. Six workers were installing bracing to trusses while working on/inside the web of the trusses with two workers on the ground. The trusses collapsed/rolled. Two workers fell from the trusses and were injured. One worker, the ground man, was cutting lumber to length. He was killed when the trusses fell on him.
2/18/2010 Gary Pellandini Dairy, Galt, CA. Worker was moving hay out of a barn from a height of 10 to 12 feet. He fell and received head trauma, from which he died. • 2/18/2010 Lewis Tree Service, Inc., Troy, NC. Worker was struck on the head by a tree limb while felling a tree. • 2/18/2010 Peninsula Packaging Co., LLC, Wilson, NC. Worker was performing maintenance on an extruder machine. He was discovered caught in the machine by the plant manager. He was pronounced dead at the scene. • 2/18/2010 Department of Juvenile Services, Chettenham, MD. Worker was murdered. • 2/21/2010 Celina Aluminum Precision Technology, Inc., Celina, OH. Worker was troubleshooting a Makino, multi-axis, computer numerical controlled (CNC) machine; the machine activated and the worker's head was impaled by the tooling spindle.
2/22/2010 Center Point Energy, Baytown, TX. Worker was climbing a tower at a height of 58 feet and began having convulsions. • 2/22/2010 City of Chicago Police Department, Chicago, IL. Police officer was involved in a vehicle accident with a marked car. Apparently he struck a pole and tree and was pronounced dead at the hospital. • 2/22/2010 Self-McNeilly Solid Waste Management Facility, Shelby, NC. Worker was working as a landfill spotter. He was behind a CAT 836G compactor and the operator of the compactor did not see him. The operator of the compactor backed over the worker. He was taken to the hospital where he later died. • 2/22/2010 George J. Roll & Sons, Inc., Blue Island, IL. Worker was attempting to find the problem of a hydraulic flatbed truck. He rose up the flatbed and positioned himself beneath the raised flatbed and the frame. The hydraulics gave way and the worker was crushed.
2/22/2010 Ricklefs Excavating LTD, Cedar Rapids, IA. Workers were utilizing excavator with pipe clamp to plastic-wrap 18-foot pipes. Upon completion of wrapping, the pipe excavator operator picked up pipe with the clamp. The pipe came out of the pipe clamp resulting in the pipe falling onto the worker's chest which caused a fatal crushing injury. • 2/22/2010 Unibridge System Inc., Woodward, OK. Worker was in the process of unloading pipe from a trailer. He was removing a chain that was routed through the middle of the front weigh bridge, when the pipe rolled off the top of the load, striking the worker in the upper extremities knocking him down on the ground. • 2/24/2010 B K D Construction Inc., Juana Diaz, PR. While operating a boom truck attempting to move a junked truck, suddenly the boom broke from its base and stuck the worker causing a serious chest injury. The worker was killed.
2/24/2010 Gaudiosi Hauling Inc., Wolcott, CT. Worker, acting as a spotter, was struck by the garbage truck that was backing up. • 2/24/2010 Horween Leather Company, Chicago, IL. Worker was working on a step ladder adjusting a pipe on top of the pasting machine and fell backwards off of the ladder, hitting his head on the metal plate floor. • 2/24/2010 Sea World, Orlando, FL. Worker, an animal trainer, was attacked by a killer whale in an aquarium's exhibition tank.
Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 To assure safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women; by authorizing enforcement of the standards developed under the Act; by assisting and encouraging the States in their efforts to assure safe and healthful working conditions; by providing for research, information, education, and training in the field of occupational safety and health; and for other purposes.
SEC. 5. Duties [29 USC 654] Each employer – shall furnish to each of his employees employment and a place of employment which are free from recognized hazards that are causing or are likely to cause death or serious physical harm to his employees; shall comply with occupational safety and health standards promulgated under this Act. Each employee shall comply with occupational safety and health standards and all rules, regulations, and orders issued pursuant to this Act which are applicable to his own actions and conduct.
Responsibilities of managers: • Monitor health and safety of employees • Coach employees to be safety conscious • Investigate accidents • Communicate about safety policy to employees
Responsibilities of supervisors/department heads: • Provide technical training regarding prevention of accidents • Coordinate health and safety programs • Train employees on handling facilities an equipments • Develop safety reporting systems • Maintaining safe working conditions
