Injury Prevention and Hazard Assessment

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Injury Prevention and Hazard Assessment

• Material Handling
• Proper Lifting
• Personal Protective Equipment
• Hazard Assessments

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Injury Prevention and Hazard Assessment

• Can I avoid injury during material handling?
• Is equipment available to help accomplish the
  task(s) safely? What about limitations?
• Am I able to get assistance, if needed?
• Am I able to avoid back injuries by applying
  proper body mechanics?
• Can engineering controls help?
• Is the correct PPE available? Limitations?
• Have I planned my work (assessed the hazards)?

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Engineering Controls

• Improvements include rearranging, modifying,
  redesigning, shielding, or replacing tools,
  equipment, workstations, packaging, parts, or
  products.
• Raise or lower the work surface or the employee
  reducing bending, reaching, and awkward postures.
• Use cutout work surfaces allowing employees to
  get closer to their work, reducing visual effort
  and awkward postures.
• Reposition the work reducing bending and
  reaching.
• Keep equipment in good repair (mufflers).
• Railings rather than fall restrain/arrest
  systems.
• Use mechanical means to secure items to be worked
  on or cut.

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Injury Prevention and Hazard Assessment

• PPE Hazard Assessment Certification Form
• This helps determine the need for personal
  protective equipment.

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Injury Prevention and Hazard Assessment

• OSHA Standards
• General Industry
• 1910.132, General Requirements Personal
  Protective Equipment
• 1910.133, Eye and Face Protection Personal
  Protective Equipment
• 1910.252(b)(2), General Requirements Welding,
  Cutting, and Brazing (Fire Watch - Hot Work
  Permits)
• 1910 Subpart I App B, Non-mandatory Compliance
  Guidelines for Hazard Assessment and Personal
  Protective Equipment Selection

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Injury Prevention and Hazard Assessment

• OSHA Standards
• Construction
• - 1926.95, Criteria for Personal Protective
  Equipment, Personal Protective and Life Saving
  Equipment
• - 1926.102, Eye and Face Protection, Personal
  Protective and Life Saving Equipment

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Injury Prevention and Hazard Assessment

• Material Handling To reduce the number of
  accidents associated with workplace equipment,
  employers must train employees in the proper use
  and limitations of the equipment they operate.
• Do we have the equipment needed to handle
  material safely?

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Injury Prevention and Hazard Assessment

• OSHA requires employers to provide personal
  protective equipment (PPE) to reduce employee
  exposure to hazards when engineering and
  administrative controls are not feasible or
  effective.
• Personal protective equipment (PPE) alone should
  not be relied on to protect against hazards. Use
  PPE in conjunction with guards, engineering
  controls, and solid manufacturing or safe
  food-prep and clean-up procedures.

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Injury Prevention and Hazard Assessment Back!

• Maintain a healthy back
• http//www.nih.gov/od/ors/ds/ergonomics/shops.html
  
• Warm ups, strengthen the back through exercises,
  and use proper body mechanics

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Injury Prevention and Hazard Assessment Eyes!

• How Much Eye Protection is Enough?
• Most safety professionals agree that workplace
  eye injuries are preventable. Yet, OSHA estimates
  that 1,000 eye injuries occur every day in U.S.
  workplaces, at an annual cost of 300 million in
  lost production time, medical expenses and
  workers' compensation. OSHA lists two major
  reasons for eye injuries at work not wearing eye
  protection or wearing the wrong kind of
  protection for the job.

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Injury Prevention and Hazard Assessment Eyes!

• Begin with a hazard assessment to determine which
  of several eye hazards exist for each job
• Dust, concrete, metal, wood, paper, and other
  particles
• Chemicals such as acids, bases, fuels, solvents,
  lime and wet or dry cement powder
• Falling or shifting debris, building materials
  and glass
• Smoke and noxious or poisonous gases
• Welding light and electrical arcs
• Thermal hazards, hot grease or oil, hot
  water/steam, and fires and
• Bloodborne pathogens (hepatitis or HIV) from
  blood, body fluids and human remains.

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Injury Prevention and Hazard Assessment Ears!

• Every year, approximately 30 million people in
  the U.S. are occupationally exposed to hazardous
  noise. Fortunately, the incidence of
  noise-induced hearing loss can be reduced or
  eliminated through the successful application of
  engineering controls and hearing conservation
  programs.

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Loud Equipment - 2005
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Injury Prevention and Hazard Assessment Ears!

• 1910.95(b)(1)
• When employees are subjected to sound exceeding
  those listed in Table G-16, feasible
  administrative or engineering controls shall be
  utilized. If such controls fail to reduce sound
  levels within the levels of Table G-16, personal
  protective equipment shall be provided and used
  to reduce sound levels within the levels of the
  table.

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Injury Prevention and Hazard Assessment Ears!

• "Audiometric testing program."
• 1910.95(g)(1)
• The employer shall establish and maintain an
  audiometric testing program as provided in this
  paragraph by making audiometric testing available
  to all employees whose exposures equal or exceed
  an 8-hour time-weighted average of 85 decibels.

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Injury Prevention and Hazard Assessment
Employee Expectations

• The PPE user is responsible for following the
  requirements of the PPE Program. This involves
• Wearing PPE as required.
• Attending required training sessions.
• Caring for, cleaning, and maintaining PPE as
  required.
• Informing the supervisor of the need to repair or
  replace PPE.
• All PPE has limitations.

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Injury Prevention and Hazard Assessment

• What can go wrong? Think of at least 3 things
  that could cause an accident or injury
• People Machinery Equipment or Work
  Environment (slippery floors, tripping hazards,
  height (things out of reach), etc.)

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University Dining Services

• Be sure proper procedures are established and
  employees are trained to follow appropriate work
  rules.
• Plan ahead anticipate what may go wrong and
  work to prevent accidents and injuries.
• Take enough time to complete the task safely.
• Have proper personal protective equipment
• Heat-resistant gloves for work around hot food,
  ovens, and dishwashers. Oven mitts big/long
  enough to cover the forearm.
• Cut-resistant gloves for food-prep or clean-up
  tasks that include knives or sharp items (broken
  glass). Kevlar fiber fillet knives.
• Have mechanical means available to secure items
  that must be cut.
• Avoid distractions focus on the task. Stop what
  you are doing if you are interrupted. Maintain an
  atmosphere that allows people to work safely.