This month’s draft powerpoint is
falls in construction. I use this in the OSHA 10 Hour class for 75 minutes to 2
hours. I like using the CWPR ladder video as an exercise to focus on ladder
training. It can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXit0ziMIAA
This year, I am tracking the
Illinois worker fatalities. I can find 1 who died in June bringing the total to
45 for 2014.
It was a good training month
with 129 people trained. My goal for 2014 is 2500 people trained. The first
seven months was 1201 people trained total
I am also working on a training
ppts for tuckpointing, power transmission, tree trimming and logging safety so
will be glad to come out and help out at no cost.
Here is the news for July
1) Thanks to Terry Krug, the
confined expert, that caught that I didn’t use 19.5% for the lower acceptable
limit for oxygen in the monthly quiz. Terry has taught confined space for years
and is an excellent trainer. He can be reached at (630) 736-2063.
2) Midnight Rider director
Randall Miller has been indicted of involuntary manslaughter and criminal
trespass in the death of their worker Sarah Jones.
3) Glenn Florczak has passed
away this month at home in Chetek, WI following complications after recent
cardiac bypass surgery. I worked with
Glenn when at the OSHA training institute and setting up the new fall
protection standard training. He was always a digger in facts and had so much
experience.
4) Thanks Matt Stein. OSHA has
released an updated version of their directive on respiratory protection. https://www.osha.gov/OshDoc/Directive_pdf/CPL_02-00-158.pdf
The biggest change is how
respiratory protection is affected by the new hazard communication standard.
OSHA is now requiring hazard assessments for all Category 1 and 2 acutely
hazardous chemicals (including ammonia among others) and all sensitizers (such
as paints that contain isocyanates).
5) If you have an OSHA 10 hour
card, this is what is needed for a 30 hour card. It's called 10+20.
Per the Feb 2013 OSHA Outreach
Training Program Requirements:
"Outreach Trainers may
provide 20 additional hours to 10-hour students and receive 30-hour cards under
the following conditions:
a. The same outreach trainer must do all of the
outreach training.
b. All of the outreach training must be
completed from the start of the 10-hour class to the end of the 30-hour class
within 6 months.
c. The 10-hour card must be returned to receive
the 30-hour card."
6) This month’s featured
question. Where does it say low voltage
does not need lockout?
If the voltage is unless 50
volts as some detection circuit are, then
there is no hazard to require
lockout.
1910.333(a)(1)
"Deenergized parts."
Live parts that operate at less than 50 volts to
ground need not be deenergized
if there will be no increased exposure
to electrical burns or to
explosion due to electric arcs.
7) We can do much better.
Illness and injury are preventable” OSHA’s Dr. Michaels
8) This 2010 article on
"complacency" is how some companies actually think.
I see it as "blame the
worker". The example of the bicyclist not looking is too simple. It is
"he wasn't paying attention" and pulled out in front of the truck.
Therefore the employer is
brainwashed to believe that unguarded machines wouldn't hurt some worker if
they weren't complacent.
The worker in the confined space
should have been paying attention when that invisible toxic gas came in the
space using this nonsense.
It seems I go into a workplace
every month where the culture is focused on complacency. EVERY one of them has
numerous serious hazards that will hurt a worker and are OSHA violations. I
think the recognition of hazards is diminished with this training. After all,
the worker causes the accidents per these BBS specialists.
The best workplaces are where
the workers participate in audits and in job hazards analysis, workers take
several training classes, safety committee is active and works, and management
is committed to safety. Over 100 of these places that I have worked with have
no injuries for the year. Very few have BBS mindset. If you see one management
system that works, it is not six sigma, but the Lean 5S+safety (6S).
A good intro to 6S is at EPA.
9) The CSB has been urging OSHA
to write a combustible dust rule since 2006, when the board issued a landmark
report that detailed 281 such incidents between 1980 and 2005 that resulted in
119 deaths and 718 injuries. Between 2008 and 2013, the CSB has found 50 more
incidents involving 29 deaths and 161 injuries.
10) OSHA: Auburn OH company
facing $816,500 fine after faking abatement data. “Formed Fiber Technologies
apparently decided that production was more important than ensuring its workers’
safety. They provided false abatement documentation to OSHA. They knew how
hazardous these machines were without proper safeguards and also knew exactly
how to fix those hazards,” Dr. David Michaels
This should be criminal like the
Walter Cardin case of 2013.
11) I am seeing many falling
through the roof in 2014. Here some good tips from the UK on this issue.
12) OSHA has new policy memo on
temp workers and their employers.
13) OSHA updates communication
tower directive. The first requirement will knock out lifting people by a
hoist.
“Engineered Hoist Systems: Have
a registered professional engineer approve/stamp the engineered hoist system
design. Engineered system specifications are to include the size and type of
rope to be used, the ratio of rope diameter to sheave size, and inspection and
maintenance procedures and schedules.”
14) It sure looks like OSHA will
keep citing residential fall protection issues #1. Thanks Tom. Data from CPWR
Data briefs June 2014.
• Among self-employed
construction workers, the number of fatalities increased 27.8% from 2011 to
2012 while the increase among wage-and-salary workers was 4.4%.
• There were 199 fatalities in
residential construction in 2012 — an annual increase of 37.2% compared to just
a 3.0% increase in nonresidential construction.
• Fall fatalities in all
construction increased 9.3% from 269 to 294 between 2011 and 2012, but jumped
81.5% in residential building construction from 27 to 49 deaths.
• In 2012, 222 Hispanic
construction workers died on the job — a 12.7% increase from 2011, compared to
an 8.7% increase for the overall construction industry.
15) OR OSHA is revising their
confined space standard. I want to see the new sample permits.
16) The highest heat-related
death rates were in cities and very rural areas; the most isolated areas also
had the highest rates related to the cold and to storms, floods and lightning.
Low-income counties had higher weather-related death rates than high-income
counties. That could be due to people in poor rural or urban places lacking
heating, air conditioning or help during blizzards or heat waves, the
researchers said
I was surprised to see cold
kills the most.
OSHA Citations in July
Penalty State Major Issues
Business
1) $194,000 WY Fall protection,
eye wash
2) $42,240 GA fall protection,
Siding contractor
3) $85,146 CT falls, electrical,
spray booth, aircraft parts mfr
4) $177,800 MA Storage, electrical,
exits, Retail chain
5) $228,690 FL Willful fall
protection, Residential contractor
6) $54,500 AL Willful, Fatal
bridge fall, Bridge contractor
7) $49,000 AL Machine guarding,
falls, noise. Mfr and temp agency.
8) $102.000 FL Trench cave-in.
Trenching contractor
9) $50,051 OH Engulfment in
grain bin. Grain elevator.
10) $45,200 NY Demolition
collapse death. Demo contractor.
11) $214,200 TX Repeat Falls,
Machine guarding, noise, Barge mfr
12) $52,500 OH Willful free
climbing comtower
13) $53,480 TX Fatal fall condo
construction.
14) $47,520 IL Repeat machine
guarding, Rack mfr
15) $50,820 OH Repeat noise,
respirators. Metal polisher.
16) $62,101 NE Ammonia incident,
Grain coop
17) $816,500 OH False abatement
to OSHA,
18) $57,140 OH Repeat Silica,
Foundry
19) $47,600 MA Lead, silica,
respirator, Rehab contractor.
20) $53,240. OH Repeat
electrical, flammables, respirator, Retail chain
21) $158,000 NJ Repeat
electrical, storage, Retail chain.
22) $101,300 NJ Repeat
electrical, aisle marking, machine guarding, Airlines.
23) $53,000 NY Noise, PPE,
Aluminum foundry
24) $70,290 MA Powerlines,
Trench contractor
25) $83,930 GA Repeat fall
protection, Roofing contractor.
26) $110,700 IL Repeat
Forklifts, Retail Stores
27) $111,650 OH Repeat lockout,
machine guardings and forklift, Packaging machinery
28) $161,100 NY Coke plant
explosion
29) $120,560 NE Structural
collapse at feed mill
Large Work Payouts
1) $2 million in damages to
three plaintiffs who sued after they were injured in a 2007 elevator accident
at the Louisiana Superdome.
2) $9.3 million to an asbestos
plaintiff
3) $7.6 million for a scaffold
accident. Cortes, who was working on a "construction and asbestos
removal" project at leased warehouse space, fell when he was dismantling a
scaffold, court documents show.
4) TX jury awards families of
McDonald workers $27 Million. “This was a dangerous location, and McDonald’s
knew it,” Chris Hamilton, an attorney for the Crisp and Ward families, said,
according to Bloomberg, adding: “Yet they did nothing to prevent their
senseless deaths.”
http://www.ibtimes.com/mcdonalds-loses-texas-teenagers-death-case-jury-awards-27m-plaintiffs-1644382
Major New Stories
1) OSHA Focusing on Protecting
Temporary Workers
2) Workers died needlessly in
the heat. Good map.
3) Selma AL workers are getting
sick at their plant.
4) “A life so full of
possibilities was lost and the fine for multiple serious violations was
negotiated to less than the price of a junky used car”
5) "Burgos Construction has
been cited seven times in the past two years for not providing fall protection
for its employees engaged in residential construction.” That is a lot of times
for one issue.
6) Tales from the front: VPP
site kicked out contractor for not knowing the crane signals.
The safety director saw a
contractor using non-standard crane signals at the facility. She asked the
workers about some of the 19 crane signals. No one had crane signal training.
They were told not to come back until they had taken an independent training class.
So the large contractor wanted the four hour class today. You would think a
large construction firm of 1500 employees would have had this training, but it
goes to show that many are still behind a rule that came out four years ago.
2014 Safety Training at
Non-Profits
CSC 10 Hour for Construction August 5-6, 2014
NIU 501 General Industry August 11-14, 2014
CSC GHS August 27, 2014
TRMA Excavation Safety August
21, 2014
TRMA Fall Protection August
28, 2014
CSC Confined Space upon
request
TRMA Scaffold Safety August
20, 2014
CSC Crane Signal and Rigging upon request
CSC 30 Hour construction August
5, 7, 12, 14, 2014
WDCC OSHA 10 Hour Industry August 7-8
TRMA is Three Rivers
Manufacturers Association www.trma.org
NIU is Northern Illinois
University OSHA Education Center http://www.nsec.niu.edu/nsec/
CSC is the Construction Safety
Council in Hillside. Www.Buildsafe.org
WDCC is the Western Dupage
Chamber of Commerce http://www.westerndupagechamber.com/
I usually teach only part of the
30 hour and the 500 series.
