The most effective job safety procedures are those developed by the individuals who do the type of work. The concept is to look at serious accidents and find individuals with direct experience with these types of activities. Safe job procedures will be reviewed or developed and made available to all operations to use as a tool, not as a mandate. The advisory committee can move forward on this by finding safe job procedures that equipment manufacturers have put out and distribute to the industry. He explained why it is worthwhile to involve people from the job site in development of safe job procedures.
Big operators have safety organizations to provide support to their operations.
An outline to develop a safe job procedure would be to take serious accidence and pick large company to review a safe job procedure, then make it available to all operators, including small operators who don t have the same resources as a large operation. The advisory committee can move forward on this by taking a look at safe job procedures that manufacturers have put out and make them available to industry. Matt mentioned that MSHA is having a meeting on November 4 at the Four Points by Sheraton in Greensburg to discuss their new initiative on independent contractors. Richard Stickler met with MSHA s Approval and Certification Center in May. MSHA will take a look at the new and repaired GK-8 ground wire monitors and perform follow ups to check the units in the field.