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What Types of Construction Safety Equipment Should You Prepare?

Preparing appropriate types and enough quantity of construction safety equipment are ones of the important steps you have to do to ensure safety during construction work inside your workplace area or chemical plant.

construction-safety-equipmentsYou may rely on your daily safety equipments to fulfill the requirement of construction safety equipments. But, it is not enough. Take a moment to think about it. Construction work is much different with your daily plant operation. You will need different types of safety equipment.

Fail to fulfill the appropriate construction safety equipment will endanger the safety of your construction workers, employees and plant facilities. (more…)

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26 Ideas for Construction Safety Meeting Topics

Before starting any construction work in chemical plant, you will want to conduct construction safety meeting which is attended by safety in charges within your company or plant, construction workers and labors. Construction safety meeting is usually conducted daily, weekly and or monthly within the construction schedule.

construction-safety-meetingsAt that time, you should choose appropriate construction safety meeting topics. Construction safety meetings are very important in which you communicate any safety-related topics with the construction jobs.

Below here are 26 ideas for construction safety meeting topics that you can choose for the construction safety meetings in the plant site. Selection of the topics will depend on hazard level of each construction work that you have assessed through the hazard identification and risk assessment. (more…)

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Hearing Protection Devices

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Hearing protection devices are used to control high level noise hazards, when engineering and administrative controls can not decrease the noise level. They may come in the form of ear plugs or ear muffs.

In order to know that you are exposed to high level noise hazards, then you should measure the noise level from the sources at your workplace. Each noise source has different nature. It could expose noise hazards in impulsive, intermittent or even continuous manner.

Besides ear plug and ear muffs, there is another hearing protection device available in the market, e.g. canal caps. (more…)

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Ear Plug Safety Videos

Ear plug is used to protect your ear from high noise level hazards. For instance, you are working around high speed compressor that introduces high noise level. Thus, you have to wear ear protective equipment. Ear plug function, as the hearing protection, is to reduce hazard of high noise level to a safer level.

However, in order to optimize its protection on your ears, you should properly use your ear plug and safely remove it from your ears after being used. A short ear plug safety video below here will teach you how to use and remove ear plug safely. (more…)

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Typical Personal Protective Equipments Used in Chemical Plants

personal-protective-equipmentIn this article we will talk about personal protective equipment (PPE) used in chemical plants. Each chemical plant, job or work process may require different personal protective equipments, but we will talk about it in general.

According to OSHA, personal protective equipments are devices designed to protect employees from serious workplace injuries or illnesses resulting from contact with chemical, radiological, physical, electrical, mechanical, and other workplace hazards. Meanwhile, in terms of hazard control methods, usage of personal protective equipment is the last hazard control. (more…)

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Personal Protective Equipment Safety Video

In this post, I am going to talk about safety video, which will show you about types of personal protective equipments.

In the hazard control hierarchy, usage of personal protective equipments (PPE) is the last protection choices. If engineering controls are neither technically impossible nor result incompletely hazard elimination, personal protective equipment shall be used.

If you are new in a chemical plant or chemical manufacturing operation, you need to follow training about personal protective equipment before you start working. It assures your safety.

To decide which safety equipment you should use, it depends on what kind of job you will do, source of hazard, nature of hazard, exposure time to the hazard and hazard exposure level. For instance, for protecting you from chemical hazards simply read the Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) of the chemical to find out what personal protective equipments are recommended to use.

PPE comes in form of eye protection (eye goggle), hearing protection (ear plug), head protection (hard hat helmet), foot protection (safety shoes), face protection (face shield), etc. To understand more about the usage of PPE, you can watch the following personal protective equipment safety video.

Learn also how to do 5-minute safety talk and why safety is important.

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40 Ideas for Safety Meeting Topics

safety-meeting-topicsSafety meeting is the right time to discuss about health and safety related matters in the workplace. Safety meeting can be held regularly or incidentally as a response on occurrence of a specific health and safety problem or after an incident or accident happens.

Ideally, safety meeting focuses on just one specific topic. But, what kind of topics do we have to discuss? Here are some topics that you can use in the safety meeting:

  1. Safety policy
  2. Applicable safety regulations
  3. Compliance status on safety regulations
  4. New safety regulation
  5. Incident and accident investigation
  6. Safety audit findings
  7. OHSAS 18001 surveillance findings
  8. Safety patrol finding
  9. Personal protective equipments
  10. Eye protection
  11. Hearing protection
  12. Hand and foot injuries
  13. Risk assessment for new plant facility
  14. On-way traffic control in the plant site
  15. Pressure vessel regular testing
  16. Working around electricity
  17. Emergency response procedure
  18. Construction safety
  19. Working in a confined space
  20. Lockout and tag-out programs
  21. Heat stress
  22. Hazards identification or recognition
  23. How to read Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS)
  24. How to handle compressed gas safely
  25. Hazardous material preservation and handling
  26. Slips, trips and falls
  27. Near miss incident reporting
  28. Fire extinguisher usage
  29. Safety precaution in case of fire
  30. Maintenance of fire fighting equipments
  31. Safety control for the transformer yard
  32. Fire fighting placement and location indication
  33. Self-inspection system
  34. Chemical exposure control
  35. Safety training program
  36. Gas cylinder control and protection
  37. Hazardous material symbol and label implementation
  38. Loss control report issued by plant insurance company
  39. Safety work permit system
  40. Truck driver safety

It had better to provide schedule for every safety meeting, especially for regular safety meeting. Don’t forget to file them when you have finished using the materials. Later you will need those files.

I believe the list above does not cover all the chemical plant safety related topics. Your input and feed back would be very valuable and I will add it to the list.

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