Employees look to you for expertise and your regular inspections can be a source of meeting topics. You will see things that workers in the area are not aware of because they are there everyday working around the problem. Discuss the incidents on how they could have been prevented or minimized. If it isn't, the results are often immediate and disastrous. A maintenance worker was standing on the blades of an auger to grease the fittings.
Employees can always use reminders for safety.
CEU's are available from the Commission on Rehabilitation Counselor Certification and the Commission for Case Manager Certification for 6 hours. During the outreach period, OSHA will not enforce the new provisions of the standard that require employers to maintain a sharps injury log and involve non managerial employees in selecting safe medical devices. Enforcement of these new provisions will begin on July 17, 2001. OSHA's education effort includes a collection of written materials designed to explain specific aspects of the standard. The revised standard also required employers with 11 or more employees to maintain a log of injuries from contaminated sharps.