10 Safety Signs to Spot on a Plant Walkthrough

10 Safety Signs to Spot on a Plant Walkthrough

Plant walkthroughs are a common safety exercise, often used to assess things like housekeeping and PPE compliance. Walkthroughs are also a good way to engage employees and build awareness about workplace safety. One specific task to consider incorporating into your walkthroughs is a check of a site's safety signs. Brady highlights these 10 signs to look for:

1. Exit/Evacuation Signs: Every authorized exit sign must be either constantly illuminated by a reliable light source, or be sufficiently self-luminating by use of glow-in-the-dark materials.
2. Fire Signs: These signs indicate the location of fire extinguishers and fire hose cabinets so they are readily accessible in case of an emergency. 
3. Electrical Arc-Flash Hazard Signs: Sites must indicate High voltage areas, and provide sufficient access and working space around energized electric equipment.
4. First-Aid Signs: First-aid supplies must be identified and readily available at all times in case of a medical emergency.
5. Flammable/Combustible Signs: Containers and areas with flammable or combustible liquids, vapors or materials must have conspicuous warning labels. 
6. Personal Protection Signs: These signs contain symbols and prevention tags/messages to remind workers of PPE required to protect against hazards related to physical contact, absorption and inhalation.
7. Hazardous Areas Signs: “Caution” signage is required to warn against potential hazards and unsafe practices. Hazardous signs instruct employees of area protocol.
8. Confined Spaces Signs: Warns employees of areas that require authorized permits or specific instructions for entering into a potentially hazardous confined space.
9. Machines and Equipment Signs: These signs alert workers to dangerous areas and hazards that could cause personal injury or equipment failure.
10. Slips, Trips and Falls Signs: These signs provide instructions and suggestions to maintain safety in aisles.

The company also has a short video that explains the ANSI Z535 safety sign standard and how signs created using this format are more understood universally. View it below.

Ricardo Podestá

Size does not matter

Size does not matter

Workplace safety programs are important to all nonprofit organizations. Remember: employees and volunteers are a nonprofit's most important asset. One might argue that a nonprofit run by one employee or one volunteer is at greater risk than a nonprofit with thousands of staff members. The argument would be: If that one person is out of commission, the nonprofit's mission is nonfunctioning. For all intents and purposes that nonprofit is defunct. That is not to say the nonprofit with thousands of paid and volunteer employees is at less risk, just that there's more of a chance that someone can step into the void and perform the tasks of the injured or ill person.

Create ownership of the program

Paid and volunteer staff members' health and safety are affected not only by their own actions but by those of their co-workers. Senior management must help staff members manage hazards associated with their work (tasks or responsibilities). They also need to make certain employees and volunteers are fit for work. Fitness for work involves drug and alcohol issues, physical and emotional well-being, and fatigue and stress.

People need to be engaged with the creation and implementation of the safety program for it to succeed. For example, the nonprofit is responsible for supplying employees and volunteers with appropriate safety equipment, but staff are responsible for wearing it at the right times and places. The nonprofit should provide paid and volunteer staff with training to help them carry out their assignments, but these staff members are responsible for attending this training, asking questions and telling supervisors if they do not understand what is being explained. This may require staff members to act assertively — to speak up for themselves: 'I do not understand how to use these, could you please show me.'

Source:https://nonprofitrisk.org/tools/workplace-safety/nonprofit/c1/wkplcsafety.htm

Glossary:  

Nonprofit: Sem fins lucrativos

Asset: De ativos

Staff: Funcionários

Less risk: Menos riscos

Void: vazio

Drug: droga

Telling: dizendo

being: sendo

Themselves: si mesmos

Assertively: assertivamente

Could:poderia

Updating OSHA Standards Based on National Consensus Standards – Eye and Face Protection(March 2016): In the 40 years since these standards were adopted by OSHA, the organizations responsible for these consensus standards have issued updated versions. However, in most cases, OSHA has not revised its regulations to reflect later editions of the consensus standards

Updating – atualização

Adopted – adotado

Consensus – consenso

Issued – emitido

Occupational Exposure to Crystalline Silica (February 2016): Under the proposal, workers’ exposures would be limited to a new permissible exposure limit (PEL) of 50 micrograms of respirable crystalline silica per cubic meter of air (µg/m3). The current PEL is 100 µg/m3 for general industry.

Proposal – proposta

Permissible – permitida

Current - atual

Workplace vibration guidance material now available

The effects of vibration in workplaces can be permanently disabling. Australian workers may be exposed to vibration in a range of industries including mining, construction, manufacturing, agriculture, forestry and fisheries, trades, transport and utilities.

Safe Work Australia has released guidance material to help workplaces identify exposure, and manage the risk of vibration. This material includes general guides and fact sheets to help workplaces manage the risks, as well as technical guides specific to work health and safety professionals, or those who measure vibration.

This is an important first step in addressing the need for Australian guidance on vibration in workplaces and takes Australia one step closer to alignment with international best practice.

The Workplace vibration guidance material includes:

·         Guide to measuring and assessing workplace exposure to hand-arm vibration

·         Guide to measuring and assessing workplace exposure to whole-body vibration

·         Guide to managing the risks of exposure to hand-arm vibration in workplaces

·         Guide to managing the risks of exposure to whole-body vibration in workplaces

·         Information sheet: hand-arm vibration, and

·         Information sheet: whole-body vibration.

Disabling – incapacitado

Guidance – orientação

fact sheets – fichas técnicas

addressing – abordando

alignment - alinhamento

OSHA has proposed several new rules that will cast a wide net over all types of companies. Some, like Injury and Illness Prevention Programs, will have a significant effect on business’ safety plans. And while OSHA is working on new regulations, it continues strict enforcement of existing rules.

Wide – ampla

strict - rigorosa

enforcement - aplicação

Name : João Clauber de Carvalho Canela

Turm: Turma de pós graduação Engenharia Segurança no Trabalho. 

Tools

   For many workers, tools are a necessary part of getting the job done. Select tools that are right for the task, provide training on their proper use, and ensure that they're always inspected and well-maintained. 

        Source: http://www.ccohs.ca/topics/hazards/safety/tools/ 

         Vocabulary: Tools: Ferramentas.

                           Done: Feito.

                           getting: Começar

                           well-maintained: Bem-Consersados. 

                           Their proper use: Seu uso Adequado.

                           .

Protection on the Job

OSHA standards are rules that describe the methods that employers must use to protect their employees from hazards. There are OSHA standards for Construction work, Agriculture, Maritime operations, and General Industry, which are the standards that apply to most worksites. These standards limit the amount of hazardous chemicals workers can be exposed to, require the use of certain safe practices and equipment, and require employers to monitor hazards and keep records of workplace injuries and illnesses. Examples of OSHA standards include requirements to: provide fall protection, prevent trenching cave ins, prevent some infectious diseases, assure that workers safely enter confined spaces, prevent exposure to harmful substances like asbestos, put guards on machines, provide respirators or other safety equipment, and provide training for certain dangerous jobs.

Employers must also comply with the General Duty Clause of the OSH Act, which requires employers to keep their workplace free of serious recognized hazards. This clause is generally cited when no OSHA standard applies to the hazard.

Source: https://www.osha.gov/workers/index.html

Vocabulary:

Standards: normas

Amount: limitar

Prevent trenching cave: evitar valas

Applies: aplica

Amount: quantidade

Paving the Way to Safer Roads

​​With advancements in cell phone technology, distracted driving has been an increasing and misunderstood trend. In fact, findings from a recent NSC public opinion poll indicate 80% of drivers across America incorrectly believe that hands-free devices are safer than using a handheld phone.

Learn why distracted driving, regardless if it's hands-free or handheld, is a dangerous threat to roadway safety.

Glossário:
advancements - avanços
increasing - crescendo
misunderstood - incompreendido
believe - acredita


Fonte: http://www.nsc.org/learn/pages/nsc-on-the-road.aspx?var=mnd

Thalis Paschoal

USS Eisenhower resumes flight operations after accident

WASHINGTON, March 21 (Reuters) - The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier resumed flights of fixed-wing aircraft on Sunday, two days after a flight accident that injured eight sailors who were working on the ship's flight deck, a Navy spokesman said.

Three sailors remain hospitalized at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital in Norfolk, Virginia, while a fourth is at Portsmouth Naval Medical Center, also in Virginia, said U.S. Navy Commander Mike Kafka, spokesman for Naval Air Force Atlantic. All four are in stable condition and some may be released soon, he said.

Kafka said an aircraft mishap team was on board to investigate Friday's accident, which occurred off the coast of Virginia when one of the ship's arresting gear cables snapped during the attempted landing of an E2-C Hawkeye airborne early warning aircraft.

The USS Eisenhower has now resumed a large training exercise ahead of a scheduled deployment to the Middle East this summer. (Reporting by Andrea Shalal; Editing by Leslie Adler)

Souce: HERE

Glossary:
aircraft - aeronave
sailors - marinheiros
ship's flight deck - convés de vôo do navio
spokesman - porta-voz 
remain - permanecer
stable - estável
mishap - acidente

World Day for Safety and Health at Work

In recent years, there has been growing attention to the impact of psychosocial risks and work-related stress among researchers, practitioners and policymakers. Work-related stress is now generally acknowledged as global issue affecting all countries, all professions and all workers both in developed and developing countries. In this complex context, the workplace is at the same time an important source of psychosocial risks and the ideal venue to address them in order to protect the health and well-being of workers.

Source: http://www.ilo.org/safework/events/safeday/lang--en/index.htm

Glossary:

Growing- crescente

Among  -  entre

Practitioners - profissionais

Acknowledged -  reconhecido

Well-being -  bem-estar.

Report Examines Fire Problem at Treatment, Storage & Disposal Facilities

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2015

Report Examines Fire Problem at Treatment, Storage & Disposal Facilities

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A new Fire Protection Research Foundationreport, “Hazardous Waste Treatment, Storage and Disposal Facility Fire Code Gap Analysis,”discusses the regulatory framework of hazardous waste; examines the treatment, storage and disposal facility (TSDF) fire problem; identifies gaps that contribute to the fire problem; and provides recommendations to address those gaps.

According to the report, numerous losses have occurred involving hazardous waste at TSDFs, and the fire problem ranges from small storage facilities to large TSDFs that handle numerous hazardous materials. According to the report’s author Elizabeth Buc, “This report could be used to support the logic of developing new text in NFPA 400 Hazardous Materials Code, in the form of a new chapter or annex material, where clarification is needed or specific guidance is lacking.” In addition, the report is said to compile and examine existing research on the environmental impact of fire and document the knowledge gaps for future work.

Luiz Ricardo Podestá

Roles and Responsibilities

The Employer

The employer, typically represented by senior management, has the greatest responsibilities with respect to health and safety in the workplace and is responsible for taking every precaution reasonable in the circumstances for the protection of a worker. The employer is responsible for ensuring that the IRS is established, promoted, and that it functions successfully. A strong IRS is an important element of a strong health and safety culture in a workplace. A strong health and safety culture shows respect for the people in the workplace.

Source: http://www.labour.gov.on.ca/english/hs/pubs/farming/ohsa/intro.php

Glossery:

Strong: forte
Reasonable: razoável
Established: estabelecida
Ensuring: garantindo

Aluna: Meyla

More research needed on truck driver fatigue: report

More research needed on truck driver fatigue: report

Washington – More research is needed to determine the link between driver fatigue and crashes involving large trucks and buses, according to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

Fatigue is estimated to play a role in up to one-fifth of commercial motor vehicle crash fatalities. However, NAS stated, existing research is muddled because of difficulties measuring fatigue objectively; measuring the quality and quantity of a driver’s sleep; and determining the role of fatigue in a fatal crash that may include multiple factors – some of which are not related to sleep.

NAS claims most data skews toward CMV drivers who work for larger carriers. More information should be collected from independent owner-operators and drivers who work for smaller carriers, researchers said. In addition, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration could create extra incentives for large fleets, independent trucking associations and insurance organizations that gather driver performance data. FMCSA’s hours-of-service regulations limit the amount of time a driver can spend on the road, but they do not guarantee a driver will receive adequate sleep and rest while he or she is off duty.

The Department of Transportation sponsored the NAS report, which was announced March 10.

Fonte:http://www.safetyandhealthmagazine.com/articles/13808-more-research-needed-on-truck-driver-fatigue-report

Vocabulary:

fatigue: fadiga

crashes: choques

vehicle: veiculo

muddled: confundido

skews toward: inclinar em direção

between: entre

NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards

     The NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards is intended as a source of general industrial hygiene information on several hundred chemicals/classes for workers, employers, and occupational health professionals. The NIOSH Pocket Guide does not contain an analysis of all pertinent data, rather it presents key information and data in abbreviated or tabular form for chemicals or substance groupings (e.g. cyanides, fluorides, manganese compounds) that are found in the work environment. The information found in the NIOSH Pocket Guide should help users recognize and control occupational chemical hazards.

                     

           Source: http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npg/

Glossary

Pocket Guide: Guia de Bolso

Hundred: centenas

Found: encotradas

Manganese: Manganês

Environment: ambiente

New to health and safety?

HSE wants everyone at work to be healthy and safe – bringing money and other benefits to your business.

We don't want to spoil your fun, close your business down or burden you with lots of paperwork.

Health and safety is relevant to all businesses. So, if you are an employer – or are self employed – you are responsible for the health, safety and welfare of employees and any others who may be affected by what you do. This includes employees, casual or part time workers, trainees, customers, neighbours, sales people and members of the public.

wants= quantos

everyone = todos

bringing money= trazendo dinheiro

Health and safety= saúde e segurança

self employed = trabalhadores por conta própria

others who= outros que

THE WHO HIGHLIGHTS THE ROLE OF PARLIAMENT MEMBERS IN THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE TRAFFIC LEGISLATION

PARLIAMENTARY FRONT – The Commission for Global Road Safety, one of the organizers of the event, suggested that the network of parliamentarians should build a forum for legislators responsible for road safety in national, regional, municipal and local parliaments (including all party groups), as well as local authorities to exchange experiences and best practices in preventing traffic injuries.

Glossário:

road- rodoviário
network - evento
party groups - grupos partidários
authorities - autoridades



Fonte: http://www.roadsafetybrazil.com.br/en

Overview

Workers may be at risk for occupational diseases due to physical, chemical, or biological exposures in underground and surface mines. These hazards can result in workers experiencing serious injuries, long term health effects, and even death.

Between 2005 and 2014, 184 workers died in Ontario’s mining sector from occupational diseases.

Occupational disease was identified as one of the top ranked hazards in the 2014 underground mining sector risk assessment completed as part of the Mining Health and Safety Prevention Review.

Vocabulary

Overview – visão geral

Chemical - químico

Ranked - classificação

Underground – subterrâneo

Assessment - avaliação

Review - revisão

Integrated Reporting Will Transform How OSH Is Managed

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2015

Integrated Reporting Will Transform How OSH Is Managed

Center for Safety and Health Sustainability (CSHS) has issued a new report, “The Accounting Revolution and the New Sustainability: Implications for the Occupational Safety and Health Professional.” Designed to advise and educate OSH professionals about emerging trends in sustainability and financial accounting, the report presents a comprehensive analysis of current sustainability policies and practices as well as implications for OSH oversight and management.

Sustainability information helps business leaders identify opportunities for risk mitigation and value creation while helping investors and analysts understand factors that affect investment performance. With integrated reporting, which combines sustainability information with financial information, pushing greater corporate transparency, executives are becoming more attuned to improving performance in material sustainability issues, including non-financial areas such as OSH.

According to CSHS, this trend is transforming how OSH is viewed and managed by organizations, meaning that safety professionals can expect to see an expanded notion of “capitals” in reporting. Essentially, reporting will be extended beyond its traditional focus on financial and physical capital to include natural, intellectual, social and human capitals that are essential to organizational growth.

“By integrating OSH performance into effective sustainability reporting, business leaders and investors will have more interest in OSH as a foundational aspect of human capital,” says CSHS Board Chair Kathy A. Seabrook. “To capitalize on this, OSH professionals should play a leadership role in organizational activities such as horizon scanning, change management, enterprise risk management [and] supply chain management.” Seabrook adds that not recognizing the opportunities that sustainability presents will leave OSH practitioners "behind in reactive, compliance-focused roles."

ASSE will be developing educational materials and other communications around this topic in the coming year. Read the full report on the CSHS website.

Luiz Ricardo De Podestá

Employer Responsibilities

Each employer is responsible for the safety and health of its workers and for providing a safe and healthful workplace for its workers. Employers are required to protect workers from the anticipated hazards associated with the response and recovery operations that workers are likely to conduct. 

As part of this effort, employers should evaluate each task and operation, identify the hazards associated with it, and establish the exposure controls necessary to adequately protect workers. Employers may accomplish this by developing a Job Hazard Analysis (JHA) for each task that workers will conduct and establishing associated safety and health procedures and protocols that protect workers from the hazards identified. In developing their JHAs, employers should involve a team—ideally composed of safety and health professionals, the workers, and their supervisors—familiar with the work to be completed and the hazards associated with that work. 

Source: https://www.osha.gov/SLTC/etools/hurricane/responsibilities.html

Glossary:

• Recovery - recuperação
• Evaluate - avaliar
• Accomplish - realizar/fazer
• Developing - em desenvolvimento
• Establishing - estabelecendo

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE

PUBLIC SERVICES OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY & HEALTH

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE

The Occupational Health Service is made up of two Occupational Medicine Divisions and three Occupational Hygiene Divisions. Its main function is to prevent occupational diseases and to promote health at work.

The major work of the divisions include:

• providing advisory services to the public on health and hygiene aspects of occupational health problems such as prevention of occupational diseases in workplaces
• conducting field surveys to ensure that the requirements of health and hygiene at workplaces are complied with
• enforcing legislation relating to occupational health and hygiene
• investigating and providing treatment to suspected occupational disease cases
• conducting sick leave clearance interview of employees with compensation claims
• organising exhibitions and delivering talks to promote the awareness of occupational health

Source: http://www.labour.gov.hk/eng/osh/content2.htm

Glossary:

Main: Principal

Advisory: Consultoria

Such as prevention: Como a prevenção

Field Surveys: Pesquisas de campo

Complied: Compilado

Clearance: Liberação

Awareness: Consciência

Stroke risk a third higher for women in stressful jobs: Pressure linked to heart problems, unhealthy eating and higher blood pressure that can raise chance

Women in highly stressful jobs are a third more likely to have stroke than those in ordinary work, researchers have found.

And employees of both sexes who have to deal with high stress levels are at least 20 per cent more at risk.

The results emerged after analysis of earlier studies and researchers point out that those in stressful jobs tend to eat and drink less healthily and smoke more.

Stress itself has also been linked to heart problems, high blood pressure and other physical conditions which can raise the risk of stroke.

The analysis, published online by the journal Neurology, looked at all of the available research on job strain and stroke risk – six studies involving more than 138,000 participants who were followed for between three and 17 years.

‘Having a lot of job stress has been linked to heart disease, but studies on job stress and stroke have shown inconsistent results’, said researcher Dr Dingli Xu, of Southern Medical University in China.

‘It’s possible that high-stress jobs lead to more unhealthy behaviours, such as poor eating habits, smoking and a lack of exercise.’

Souce: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3273302/Stroke-risk-higher-women-stressful-jobs.html


glossary:
highly - altamente
stroke  - derrame
researchers - pesquisadores
both - ambos
earlier - mais cedo
tend - tendem
itself - se
raise - levantar
strain - tensão

Name: João Clauber de Carvalho Canela
Turm : Pós - Graduação Engenharia Segurança no Trabalho.

Mental Health

Mental health is a state of well-being in which a person understands his or her own abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully and is able to make a contribution to his or her community. A mentally healthy workplace is a high-functioning, respectful and productive environment.

Source: http://www.ccohs.ca/topics/wellness/mentalhealth/ 

Glossary: Health Mental: Saúde Mental

                Well-Being: Bem-Estar.

                Person : Pessoas.

                Understands: Compreende 

               mentally : Mentalmente.

               Healthy: Saudável 

                respectful: Respeitoso. 

               Productively: Produção. 

Woman killed in worksite accident at quarry south-east of Melbourne

Woman killed in worksite accident at quarry south-east of Melbourne

A woman has been crushed to death after her truck plummeted off the edge of a quarry at Nyora, south-east of Melbourne.The driver was pinned under the vehicle after it rolled down an embankment of the sand quarry at about 1pm today.

Worksafe said it was aware of the incident and is investigating. Victoria's workplace death toll for 2016 is now at five. The woman’s death is the second at the quarry in six years.

In November 2010, excavator operator Adrian Dowell, 48, was buried alive when the unstable slope he was working beneath gave way.

Metro Quarry Group acquired the quarry in 2013, introduced new management and created an in-house safety manager.

It describes as "lackadaisical" the safety culture of the quarry's former operator, according to Fair Work Commission documents published last month.

Source: http://www.9news.com.au/national/2016/03/01/17/39/woman-killed-in-worksite-truck-accident-at-quarry-south-east-of-melbourne

Vocabulary:

Quarry - pedreira

Crushed  - esmagado

Pinned - preso/ prendeu-se

Embankment - aterrou / rolou

Unstable Slope - encosta movediça