Safety Meeting's

[jefflovstrom]

Do you have them. How often and are they effective. I need to have one a week but after awhile it is a little redundant. Now we talk safety everyday and I compile them to titles. Insurance is the reason, but I asked to have a once a month sit down with pizza and coke and on company time to hear all. I am still waiting for the go ahead to pay 14 guys one hour and pizza and soda so that I don't get my guys just signing a safety meeting sheet once a week and hoping they don't get complacent.
Jeff (darn broken sprinkler makes me look bad)

 

[Tree Pig]

safety brief before we get in the tree each and every time (this is what Im gonna do, This is what I want you to do... Oh yeah you better not rag doll me) Pay Attention.

 

[Raymond]

We have one or two sit downs together (morning and after work) each day.
We call them safety meetings, as we talk about the day.

 

[treeclimber101]

Only after something Reeeeeeaaaaaaalllly bad almost happens then we talk about it briefly and usually laugh and point for a while ...

 

[jefflovstrom]

A guy misses his mark or someone screws up-My fault.
Jeff

 

[BC WetCoast]

I think that a daily tailboard meeting each morning as you are evaluating the job gets everyone into the flow of the work. Especially if the groundies have to sign off that they were there and listened.

 

[capetrees]

I just keep the guy I work with in the dark and have him do the most mundane and simple jobs as a groundie. No climbing for him and I always come down first before he runs the chipper. I don't even like him running my saws! It's not that he's unsafe, but I'd rather use the saw and have him lump it to the chipper to save the chain and a beating on the saw. A safety sit down with this guy would not pertain to his job.

 

[asthesun]

safety meeting is code for 'lets smoke a doobie' around here

 

[outofmytree]

Daily toolbox meeting. That is, we roll up to the job and I walk the site with the guys and tell them order of work. If they have any suggestions they spit em out there and then.

 

[tree md]

When we first got our chipper a couple of years back I would discuss the potential hazards with the entire crew every morning as most of them had never ran one. I do the same with the stump grinder, saws, etc.

I have been doing this stuff for 18 years and have seen a lot of accidents. Anytime I put someone on a task where I have seen others have an accident doing that task I talk to my help about it and tell of how I have seen someone get hurt doing it before and tell them why the person got hurt. If something needs to be cut where the tip of the bar is going to be near chain link or something like that I usually just do it myself. Not trying to be a know it all but I have been doing it a lot longer than anyone who works for me and I know more about the hazards of kickback and whatnot.

 

[Raymond]

I had a guy who was good with a saw once, other then me.









No I'm just kidding.

 

[TreEmergencyB]

safety meeting is code for 'lets smoke a doobie' around here

glad i dont work with you, maybe when you gaff out on one of your prune jobs you might quit getting 'high' before you get high....in the tree

as for saftey meetings a quick walkaround the job b4 we get started everyone knows there role unless we have a new guy then its the chipper routine, dont be under the tree, if the saw is running, even if the saw is not running see the climber before you go under the tree and know he sees you. New guys dont get to run saws for a while. I really see no need for more than 1 or 2 guys to be cutting anyway

 

[Groundman One]

Our safety meeting takes place as my climber spurs up at the bottom of the tree and is exactly this long:

Me: Anything special?

Climber: No.

Me: Okay.

You work with the same guy every day for eight-years and communication gets pretty basic.

 

[jefflovstrom]

Our safety meeting takes place as my climber spurs up at the bottom of the tree and is exactly this long:

Me: Anything special?

Climber: No.

Me: Okay.

You work with the same guy every day for eight-years and communication gets pretty basic.

Humm, so what part of 14 guys did you not get! If I had one guy, I would be like you.
Jeff

 

[jefflovstrom]

Tell Asthesun "hi" for me.
Jeff

 

[Groundman One]

Humm, so what part of 14 guys did you not get! If I had one guy, I would be like you.
Jeff

Oh, didn't read the "14 guys" part.

(Gimme a break, I'm Canadian and we're kinda slow, eh.)

14 guys? I'd have a safety meeting at the beginning of each day and a quick review at the end of each day until I was 100% sure every guy was up to snuff. And each guy dealing with a specific situation; chipper, saw, maniac climber, would get a personal talking to and another at the end of the day for feedback.

I've worked on crews where I've gotten the talking to and given the talking to and it's always a good idea.

 

[jefflovstrom]

Oh, didn't read the "14 guys" part.

(Gimme a break, I'm Canadian and we're kinda slow, eh.)

14 guys? I'd have a safety meeting at the beginning of each day and a quick review at the end of each day until I was 100% sure every guy was up to snuff. And each guy dealing with a specific situation; chipper, saw, maniac climber, would get a personal talking to and another at the end of the day for feedback.

I've worked on crews where I've gotten the talking to and given the talking to and it's always a good idea.

So your man hours are included in the days production? How long would your meetings be and times that by 14. It is still man-hours.
Jeff

 

[Groundman One]

So your man hours are included in the days production? How long would your meetings be and times that by 14. It is still man-hours.
Jeff

I'm sorry, I'm not sure if you're blowing me **** or asking me a question.

 

[jefflovstrom]

Uh , never mind. Maybe I mis-posted.
Jeff