ASSE Newsletter - Georgia Society of Safety Engineers

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF SAFETY ENGINEERS
ASSE
GEORGIA CHAPTER NEWSLETTER
Chapter Officers
President
Matthew Parker
706-722-3310
[email protected]
President Elect
David Brani
678-444-2908
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Vice President
Neal Howard
404-266-4146
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Treasurer
Jimmy Mize
770-403-9111
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Secretary
Camille Oakes
[email protected]
678.309.6635
Construction Committee Co-Chair
Philip Greisen, CHST
(770) 459-2745 x111
[email protected],
Govt Affairs
Phil Critcher
[email protected]
Delegate
Ed Davis
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Delegate
Rick Gruca
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Delegate
Matthew Crouse
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Past President
Kenyon Brenish
770-733-9475
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Newsletter
Matthew Parker
706-722-3310
[email protected]
April 13th Meeting – 12:00noon
If You Could Only Put 3 Ergonomic Elements
In Your Safety Program, Do These 3…
Speaker: Don Robinson, CSP, CPE, ALCM
Probably most safety professionals need to have more of an ergonomics
emphasis in their safety program. And why not? Muscular skeletal
disorders account for about 1/3 of all injuries. Employers pay $15-20
billion per year in Worker's Compensation costs for MSD’s. Your company
may need an ergonomics program or just a more effective approach in your
safety program to address these MSD injuries. Don Robinson will present
3 important ergonomic program elements or activities that are some of the
most proven and effective ergonomic elements that you should be doing in
your safety or ergonomics program. Most safety professionals are pressed
for time. These elements can give the most “bang for the buck” and reduce
the risk of MSD injuries.
Don Robinson is Safety Manager, Workplace Design for Norfolk Southern
in Atlanta, GA. He specializes in ergonomics issues across the railroad,
including program management, task analysis, ergonomics training and
office ergonomics. From, 2007 until 2010, he was Corporate Ergonomist &
Safety Manager at Georgia Pacific, a paper and building products company
with over 250 locations worldwide. Prior to Georgia Pacific, he was
Corporate Ergonomist for Gold Kist, Inc., from 1999 to 2007, the nation’s
third largest food and poultry company. Prior to Georgia Pacific and Gold
Kist, Inc. he was an ergonomics and safety consultant with Liberty Mutual
Insurance, where he consulted w/ a number of Fortune 1000 companies in a
variety of industries on ergonomics and safety issues.
He has obtained certifications as a Certified Professional Ergonomist (CPE)
and a Certified Safety Professional (CSP). He is past president of the
Louisville, KY ASSE Chapter and a 30 year ASSE professional member.
He has a B.S. degree from Clemson University in Administrative
Management with a minor in Occupational Safety & Health.
The meeting is held at Georgia Power Company headquarters located at 241
Ralph McGill Blvd, Atlanta GA, 30308 (directions are located on our
website: http://georgia.asse.org/
Please RSVP to [email protected]
Members $10 & Non-Members $15.00
Be there by 11:15 to network and get your lunch.
ASSE GEORGIA CHAPTER NEWSLETTER
IH Corner
Heat Stress
Heat stress is a serious condition of the
human body in which the body is unable
to properly regulate its critically rising
temperature. Failure to adequately
respond and treat any person with such a
condition runs the risk of causing death.
While predicting such a condition is
difficult because of the variety of factors
that influence it, heat stress is
nevertheless a condition that can be
prevented through awareness of
symptoms, implementation of accurate
responses, and utilization of proper
equipment.
The various factors that influence the
likelihood of a person being affected by
heat stress are both physical and
environmental. A person’s individual
physical factors, including age, weight,
fitness, degree of acclimation,
drug/alcohol use, and medical
conditions, all impact how sensitive a
person is to heat stress. In addition, if a
person has sustained previous heat
injury, this makes him or her more liable
than others to suffer from heat stress.
The type of clothing worn must be taken
into account.
President’s Message
Keep up the good work!! Our meetings have been growing in number
and participation. But we still have room for improvement. We have
680 members as of April 7th. That includes the main chapter in
Atlanta and the the sections in Northeast Georgia and Southwest
Georgia. If you combine the monthly attendance of all of these, we
have approximately 120 attendees each month. That means there are
at least 560 of you that are not reaping the full benefits of your
membership. The meetings give you an opportunity to network and
learn from professional colleagues.
This month we have Don Robinson from Norfolk Southern speaking to
us about ergonomics. He is a leader in this discipline in Georgia. You
will learn something. Please join us on Monday April 13th.
Next month is our annual one day PDC. We have an outstanding
lineup of speakers:
NFPA 70E Update – Danny Raines
Shotgun Safety Never Works - Mike McCarroll, PROSAFE
ISO 45001 – Ed Foulke (Former Director of OSHA)
OSHA Update – Kurt Petermeyer (OSHA Regional Administrator)
Worldwide Safety Programs – Alexi Carli, UPS
20 Common IH Mistakes – Matthew Parker, Cardno
Please plan to attend. We will be in the normal banquet hall in April
and we will be in the large auditorium in May. See you there!
Matthew Parker
President – Georgia Chapter
The environment also plays a key role in
how a person responds to heat
conditions. Beyond the ambient air
temperature of a given environment, air
circulation, radiant heat, conduction, and
relative humidity all affect the
possibility of a person’s developing heat
stress. The heat will be here before you
know it. Review your plans and prepare
for some monitoring.
Need a good IH? Give me a call, I know
a few.
Matthew Parker, MS, CIH, CSP
Cardno
706-722-3310
Quote of the Month
“History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or
the timid”.
Dwight D Eisenhower
ASSE GEORGIA CHAPTER NEWSLETTER
Young Professionals
We are trying to get a Young
Professional group started. Our target
audience includes graduating college
and university seniors and those with up
to seven years of SH&E experience.
Please contact Camille at
[email protected] for more
information
Call for Speakers
The Georgia Conference
The 2015 Georgia
Safety, Health, and Environmental Conference
will be held
September 9-11, 2015
at the
Savannah Marriott Riverfront
Savannah, Georgia.
We will be adding information on attending, becoming a
speaker, sponsor and/or an exhibitor
to the official website in the near future.
We had a great 2014 Conference
Join us in 2015!!
We are seeking nominations, referrals,
suggestions, ideas, recommendations,
proposals, hints, etc for speakers for the
ASSE meetings. Please contact any of
the board members with your thoughts!!!
OSHA in Georgia
Newsletter Stuff
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Membership Stuff
Ready to join? Don’t know how? You
can apply online:
http://www.asse.org/membership/becom
eamember.php
Future Meetings
Put these dates on your
Calendar NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!
May 11, 2015
Annual One Day PDC
Multiple Speakers/Topics
June 8, 2015
Topic TBD
Speaker TBD
Date investigation initiated: OSHA initiated the investigation
on Nov. 5, 2014, after the agency received a complaint related
to safety and health hazards at the facility.
Investigation findings: OSHA issued 12 serious citations to
the employer for not having a program to ensure machinery
could not accidentally start up during maintenance and
servicing; exposing workers to amputation hazards due to
unprotected rotating conveyor parts; allowing employees to use
compressed air for cleaning in excess of 30 pounds per square
inch; failing to ensure forklift operators were trained and used
seat belts; allowing excessive amounts of sawdust to
accumulate causing fire and explosion hazards and several
instances of failing to protect employees from contact with
hazardous equipment. Two other violations include the
employer's failure to ensure electrical boxes were covered and
not using permanent fixed wiring. A serious violation occurs
when there is substantial probability that death or serious
physical harm could result from a hazard about which the
employer knew or should have known.
Proposed Penalties: $45,500
View citations here:
http://www.dol.gov/opa/media/press/osha/OSHA20150394fs.pdf*
http://www.dol.gov/opa/media/press/osha/OSHA20150394fs2.pdf*
ASSE GEORGIA CHAPTER NEWSLETTER
Picture of the Month
Fall Protection Stand Down
Building on its unprecedented participation from last year's event,
OSHA has announced this year's Fall Safety Stand-Down to prevent
falls in construction, scheduled for May 4-15, 2015. Last year, tens of
thousands of employers and more than 1 million workers across the
country joined OSHA in a week-long construction Fall Safety StandDown, the largest occupational safety event ever hosted in the United
States.
During the 2015 two-week stand-down, employers and workers will
pause during their workday to focus on preventing fatalities from falls
through talks, demonstrations and trainings.
The National Fall Safety Stand-Down is part of OSHA's construction
fall prevention campaign, with NIOSH National Occupational
Research Agenda and CPWR - The Center for Construction Research
and Training. The newly launched 2015 National Safety Stand-Down
Web page (https://www.osha.gov/StopFallsStandDown/) provides
details on how to conduct a stand-down; receive a certificate of
participation; and access free education and training resources, fact
sheets and other outreach materials
Disassembly Required
Braves Stadium
OSHA has formed a strategic
partnership with Georgia Tech Research
Institute, American Builders 2017 and
the Associated General Contractors of
Georgia to ensure the highest level of
worker safety and health during the
construction of the new SunTrust Park,
Atlanta Braves Stadium, in Atlanta.
An estimated 6,000 workers will be
covered during the construction of the
41,500-seat baseball stadium and mixeduse 60-acre development. The
partnership focuses on reducing worker
injuries and illnesses, increasing safety
and health training, sharing best work
practices and ensuring employers use
safety and health management systems
to find and fix hazards before workers
can be harmed. The partnership will
target silica exposure monitoring,
ergonomics, 100 percent fall protection,
electrical safety, heat illness prevention,
and multi-language signage to ensure
worker safety and health.
ASSE Risk Assessment Program
Workplace situations and challenges are constantly evolving, and
safety professionals must evolve along with them. To that end, ASSE
is now offering a Risk Assessment Certificate Program. For more
information visit http://www.asse.org/education/cra/
Risk assessment is a process that helps identify and prioritize
workplace risks. Debuted at SeminarFest and slated for the upcoming
Safety 2015 conference, the certificate program is a 40-hour program
of continuing education and training in risk assessment. Participants
must complete all 40 hours (4 CEUs) within 2 years to receive the
certificate. The program involves a 3-day classroom risk assessment
seminar. Upon completion, the participant will earn 2.1 CEUs. An
additional 10 hours of electives will count as another CEU, with the
final .9 awarded for the participant’s final project.
The program is designed to help participants build their skills to match
the level of risk assessment in industry today. This helps you advance
not only your career, but gives your organization confidence in your
ability to help analyze the risks it is evaluating right now and into the
future. Workshops are built in throughout, and a final project connects
your learning to the current industry standard. Safety professionals
can expect to gain more than just new knowledge from the program.
They’ll benefit from being able to use what they learn almost
immediately. The program is designed to keep on collecting and
publishing data, examples and references. Particpants will learn to talk
about risk and its applications in a language that is clearly understood
by the senior management.