Farming and Agriculture Safety
For those of you who are traveling next week, travel safe!
OSHA Asbestos Page
Asbestos – Overview | Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Safety Potpourri
HSE BLOG: April Safety Topics: Stay Alert and Prevent Accidents This Spring
Safety Stage: 8 Engaging April Safety Topics And Messages For Your Workplace – Safetystage
In closing, if you can have a chat with your high school chemistry teachers, to see if they want their unnecessary lab chemicals cleaned out and if they do, please reach out to Tim and John with their contact information so we can coordinate with them to get this inventoried and quoted for the summer chemical pickup. If you have general chemicals for pickup, please coordinate with us as well so we can start that process. It will probably be a big pickup so the sooner the better.
Have a great weekend and stay safe!
CA BOCES Health and Safety
Think Spring
In closing, if any of you have any questions that pertain to PESH/OSHA or specifics regarding Indoor Air Quality, please email Tim Richardson so he can take those questions/concerns to the Association of Educational Safety and Health Professionals Conference next week.
Enjoy your day and have a great weekend!!
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Creepy Crawlies
As a reminder, please send a letter to your local fire department that your fire inspections for the year have been conducted and that your facilities have successfully passed.
Have a great weekend and stay safe!
Eye Injury Awareness
Eye Injury Awareness
Asbestos and IAQ
Mental Health Awareness
The link is SAMHSA’s 988 Toolkit which has printable and orderable materials to draw awareness to not only the crisis hotline but signs to watch out for.
Have a great weekend and if you are off next week, enjoy your break!
February for Fitness and Fire Inspection Wrap-up
As we close down on another fire inspection season, we want to thank you and your staff who took time out of your busy schedules to take us around all of your buildings. The top five non-conformance items that we found this year were the following:
- Flammable and combustible items being stored on top of flammable storage cabinets.
- Classroom doors being chocked in the open position.
- Standpipe cabinets being blocked on stages.
- Electrical panels and service equipment being blocked.
- Exit diameters being encroached upon.
As you can see 4 of the 5 items really involve storage issues which unfortunately, is limited in most schools. We will be sending out a request for hazardous materials disposal, within the next month, which can help alleviate some of these issues. We are still focusing in on science storage areas and ask that your school district’s Chemical Hygiene Officer and Science Teachers be kept in the loop on the spring pickup.
We have started printing up more rescue window stickers, “Do Not Block” signs that are specific to electric panels/service equipment, and a few other labels that can serve as reminders for staff. If you need any “safety-related” stickers or labels, please reach out to Emily.
Enjoy your weekend and stay safe!