safety training

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How do you guys ensure safety in the work place? Do you guys have meetings or just say here is your rope, saw, saddle and oh....by the way don't fall? I always have been one to have a little meeting in the morning and go over a small item of interest. This in my opinion will only help the business over time as the knowledge and work "should" be better. Plus you may slim your chances of using workers comp. What have you seen being done?......nothing?

 

[Treeman14]

We have a monthly formal safety meeting using the NAA Tailgate Safety Program as a guide.

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

I make sarcastic remarks when i see unsafe practices. Realy, I do! "hey my names Pinkey, I usta be a logger!"

 

[treeman82]

John, I always preferred... "it's pretty hard to pick your nose if you don't have any thumbs." I heard something like that from an excavation guy a few years back.

 

[TheTreeSpyder]

i have about a dozen films we watch on rainy, slow daze.

i stay on everybody esp. about walking under loads and using chain brake etc.

i do this so much that i have a real problem with controling force, watching everything, preaching safety and awareness; and some nut trying to kill me while driving home! Jan. 1 i was hit on hiway; was cool about it, not bad, small bumper damage at 55mph! But that was while returning computer, day off.

Woe to the person that hits me while being stupid after a hard day preaching safety and awareness and controlling moving force in 'impossible'situations , don't think i wood handle it quite as well!

 

[Tom Dunlap]

All of whats been posted is normal here. When I have a new hire I send home various training videos for them to watch. Sometimes I have a whort quiz. Other times we talk about what was covered. I trade them an hour of video time for a lunch on my dime.

If I don't practice what I preach, I have no credibility. None of the...nudge, nudge, wink , wink, know what I mean, eh...I don't want my jos site to turn into a Monty Python sketch.

One of the most important part of safety training is to get a written documentation. The NAA Tailgate Safety Program does an execellent job here. Pass around the sign up sheet. This will be critically important if you ever have a safety audit by your insuracne company or OSHA.

Tom

 

[TheTreeSpyder]

Well, when wee watch films, i'm constantly stopping, rewinding, expalining what we didn't do to match the films criteria the day before, how we apply these things, how long i was doing things wrong; focusing on details, and what they are being given that i wasn't! etc., etc. and sum of the guys would say ad nauseum!

 

[Jumper]

SAFETY

Guess I am fortunate in that I arrived on the job trained as a former OSH coordinator during my time in the military. Having said that, I did receive some videos to watch (the ones dealing with the care of palm trees were REALLY useful). I am a real stickler for wearing PPE, and like to think I am alert at work, thus hope nothing serious ever happens to me/us on the job. The closest I think I have come to getting injured was lowering a dead ash branch which swung in a really funny direction, ie right at my head. I ducked, it missed, and smashed into the wall of the client's house, also missing a window by a foot. The whole episode has given me a really healthy appreciation for dealing with dead trees.:angel:

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

How about the possible need for a second rope?

"Can we put a tag line on that?"