Health and Safety

  Excavation   OHSA Definition “An excavation is  any man-made cut, cavity, trench, or depression in the Earth's surface formed by earth removal .” A trench is considered an excavation. Employees working on or near construction sites must be protected from cave-in when the excavation is 4 ft or more in-depth. If excavations are made entirely of stable rock, then Cave-In protection is not required or If no potential cave-in is found after examination by a competent person In less than 4 ft in depth. There are numerous hazards associated with excavation and including the weight of nearby vehicles, equipment, vibration, underground utilities, water, and soil erosion. All the factors must be taken by the competent person into consideration when evaluating an excavation. (it should be kept in mind that the hazards and/or conditions can change frequently and should be continuously re-evaluated. The materials removed from the excavation (spoils pile) and surcharge loa...

 4 Types of Workplace Bullies How to tell what type they are and how you can handle them, that's what we're talking about today. How do you deal with them when You're at your job and you've found someone who's one of the types mentioned above. It's difficult to know what your rights are and how you can proceed. A lot of people are afraid to go to human resources or to ask their boss about it, because they don't want to get labeled as a tattletale or they don't want any other consequences to come upon them, because they have outed someone as a bully. So we're going to discuss about all 4 types of workplace bullies how to behave and handle each one to come-out on top and they end-up getting what they need to get in order to correct their behavior, stick around guild coaching more successless stress in an ideal world. We would get along with all our co-workers and everyone would just come to work, do their jobs, get along and go home and live their ...

  Contact Stress- Contact stress results from occasional repeated or continuous contact between sensitive body tissue and a hard or sharp object contact stress commonly affects the soft tissue on the fingers, palms, forearms, thighs, calves and feet. Prolonged contact stress can inhibit blood flow, tendon and muscle movement and nerve function. One common example is resting wrists or elbows on the sharp edge of a desk or workstation, while performing tasks this can take place, while typing with the keyboard either too close or too far away using the mouse for a prolonged period of time can also lead to contact stress. The stress can be prevented by repositioning commonly used workstation items floating hands above the keyboard and reducing tension in the shoulders eliminates potential contact stress using a keyboard tray eliminates contact with a work surface edge and keeps your arms in a neutral position. Optimal neutral arm position has the arms relaxed at the side of the body wi...

Some of the most dangerous situations come out of people making the simplest mistakes. so in this article, we're going to talk about some things that could help to keep you and others around you safe and healthy. 1. Housekeeping Lack of housekeeping, and I know this sounds like a really simple item to miss and really and take care of when you're out in the field but a lot of people don't, in a messy and unkept work area can pose hazards to the people that actually work in the area as well as people that are walking around the area as well. Spilled oil or some other kind of liquid on the floor can someone slip over if someone runs an extension cord through the work-weary or through a walk area without being or without having it secured someone can trip over that and hurt themselves. Pallet bandings and zip ties that are broken up and playing on the floor if someone steps on, can be as slippery as ice so the first thing that you can do to keep yourself and others safe i...

There are many types of guards we use in the industry to protect our people from injuries. As we know lots of incidents, we face on job site leading to loss of time, permanent disability to the injured person and loss of company reputation which can lead to loss of businesses in future. Here we shall discuss the types of fixed guards we see on the job site in detail to understand the use and benefits of them. Fixed Guards There are three types of fixed guard: 1. Fixed Enclosing Guards,  2. Perimeter Fences, and  3. Fixed Distance Guards. 1. Fixed Guards: Fixed guards have no moving parts and are fastened in a constant position relative to the danger zone. they are kept in place either permanently by welding, or by means of fasteners making removal/opening impossible without using tools. If by themselves, or in conjunction with the structure of the equipment, they enclose the dangerous parts, fixed guards meet the requirements of the first level of the hierarc...