# Presentation: 703694

## Workers-Helping-Workers in the IT Division

**Together we can help **
**each other work safe!**
**EHS-296**

## Your Office Partner – What Can You Do To Help?

**Your Office Partner – What Can You Do To Help?**

## Purpose of Today’s Training (p1)

**Introduce you to the IT Division Workers- Helping-Workers Safety Program**
**Explain how this set of activities works with other “defenses” to protect each of us from injury**
**Review how the Workers-Helping-Workers program operates – how you can help yourself and your co-workers from becoming injured**

## Purpose of Today’s Training (p2)

**Give you tools to understand and control Ergonomic Hazards “My Ergonomics”**
**Preview the program’s future development**

## Workers-Helping-Workers

**A safety program designed to give each employee in the IT Division skills to:**
**Observe a behavior or condition that could result in an injury – his/her own or a co-worker**
**Communicate with co-workers effectively to help them understand the unsafe behavior or condition you observe and how to avoid injury**
**Employees will be trained over a two year period (25% of division trained every six months)**

## Using a layered defense to avoid injury

- Employee
- Working at Risk
- of Injury

**Injury **

- Remedy
- Employee
- Self-assessment

- Ergo Advocate
- Intervention

- Ergo Professional
- Intervention

- Management
- Safety Walkaround

- Workers-Helping-Workers

##  Defenses Against Injury (p1)

**Smart Employees – working together**
**Remedy – Computer-based ergonomic self-assessment and training software (employees educate and help themselves)**
**Workers-Helping-Workers – Individual observation and intervention (help yourself and help your co-worker)**

## Defenses Against Injury (p2)

**Smart Managers **
**Management Walkarounds – Management observation and intervention**
**Professional Help**
**Ergo Advocate and Ergonomist – Professional intervention and support**

**Mike White**

**Ira **
**Janowitz**

**Ann Tomaselli**

**Carol**
**Casaretto**

## IT Division FY-07 Safety Performance

**Two total recordable injuries (October – March) – a big improvement since last year**
**two ergonomics recordable injuries**
**You need this information, but much more....**

## Workers-Helping-Workers

**Workers-Helping-Workers**
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## Consider the Total Safety Culture

**Individual **
**Characteristics**
**Work ethics, habits,**
**family issues,**
**hobbies**

**Total **
**Safety **
**Culture**

**Behaviors**
**Safe and at-risk work practices**

**  ****Work Environment**
**Work load, housekeeping,**
**office furniture, **
**equipment and tools, **
**work procedures**

**Based on the work of Scott Geller, *****The Psychology of Safety Handbook***

## The DO IT Behavior Based Safety Process 

**     ****	**_**Define**_** the problem behavior, posture, ****	****and/or condition**
**	****    ****	**_**Observe**_** the behavior, consider ****	****the ****	****total safety culture**
**      ****	**_**Intervene**_** to help yourself or help your ****	****coworker**
**     ****	**_**Track**_** and perform analysis, how ****	****effective have interventions been, what ****	****are the problems that need attention, **

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## How Does the Observation Process Work

**Work like you normally do**
**Observe your work activity and the work activity of your co-workers – with your “minds eye” consider what the hazards could be**
**If you observe a potential hazard (behavior or condition) -  take action**
**Your hazard – correct the situation and/or get help**
**Co-worker’s hazard – tell them of your observation and get a commitment from them to take action**
**Continue to monitor the situation**

## Communication – the Key to Success

**Positive attitude**
**Smile**
**Watch your body language**
**A question is a good opener**
**“****I take a break from my computer every hour, how about you?”**
**Suggest an alternative, if possible**
**Recommend getting help**
**Try to get a commitment to change**
**Consider what to do for really serious safety issues**