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Winter Weather Hazards

Winter Weather Hazards. Prevention Decision Making Planning Work Practices PPE Employee Physical Conditioning and Behaviors. Leadership Decision Making. Operations Assessments What operations can be shut down ? What job functions can be temporarily discontinued or curtailed?

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Winter Weather Hazards

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  1. Winter Weather Hazards Prevention • Decision Making • Planning • Work Practices • PPE • Employee Physical Conditioning and Behaviors

  2. Leadership Decision Making • Operations Assessments • What operations can be shut down ? • What job functions can be temporarily discontinued or curtailed? • What operations or jobs need to be continued?

  3. Planning • Decisions to continue operations should have a plan for how to do so safely. • Safe access and clean up. • How and where to begin. • Priority areas. • What equipment is needed. • Who is involved? • What materials and methods. • Clean up procedures should consider drainage to reduce “black ice” and refreezing.

  4. Work Practices • What is required of our people? • What do we expect, and what do we allow? • Employee Selection and Job assignment?

  5. PPE Wearing Proper Shoes Wear shoes with slip-resistant soles or traction devices when walking or working on surfaces that are wet, greasy, icy, or other-wise slick (e.g., in kitchen areas, performing custodial work). No footwear has anti-slip properties for every condition so make sure that the proper type of footwear is selected for the work conditions and for the type of flooring or walking/working surface. Slip-resistant traction devices for snow and ice that fit over the soles Steel-toed safety boots with oil-resistant soles

  6. Walking Techniques • Walk like a “Penguin”. • Point your feet out. • Keep your head up. • Walk in short choppy steps, or shuffle your steps. • Do not carry any materials across untreated surfaces. • Do not walk with your hands in your pocket, but extend your arms to the side for additional balance. • Use handrails or structures where available. • If falling, try to avoid landing on your knees, wrists, or spine, relax muscles and try to fall on your side.

  7. Mounting/Dismounting Equipment Safely • Clean footwear and soles of mud, snow, ice, grease, or any other contamination. • Make sure running board, tread, step, foothold, and platform of equipment are also clean and dry of any contamination. • Always face equipment when mounting and dismounting. • Have a good hand-hold before stepping up. • Place your foot on the step or foothold just in front of your heel, under the arch. • Clean shoes • Clean foothold and step • Proper foot placement on step and foothold

  8. Courtesy of Construction Safety Association of Ontario Mounting/Dismounting Equipment Safely • Maintain three-point contact at all times while getting onto/off of the equipment until reaching ground, cab, or stable platform. • one hand, two feet • two hands, one foot Three-point contact: • Do not jump off when dismounting or getting off the bed of a truck or other part of the equipment. Step down carefully while facing equipment (reverse order of the pictures above).

  9. Workplace Checklist

  10. Even the best are at risk ! Take Two !

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