Circle of Safety
To emphasize the importance of the Circle for Safety
Attachment: Safety Reminder_Circle of Safety
Safety Alerts, Bulletins, & Reminders
Valued Team,
As most of you know, our Contractor Webpage does not allow documents over 125kb in size to be sent out with our EMAILS. We have worked with our Communications group who have set us up an external website where we place important documents. The second part is the follow up EMAIL to our Contractors pointing you to the website to view the documents. This EMAIL is in fact for the purpose of informing you that several documents have been put on our website for your viewing and to be shared with your workgroups. The website is located at
http://entergy.com/safety_training/index.html
(A link is also located on the right side of this page as: Entergy Alerts Page)
Please go to the website, view the following documents and share them with your employees.
SAFETY ALERTS:
05032012 Emergency Response to CCA Treated Utility Pole Fires
05032012 Grounding Clamps fail ASTM Testing
SAFETY BULLETINS:
05022012 Multiple Control House Doors
05102012 Outrigger Pad Modifications (This is to show you a problem we had and how we are trying to fix it at Entergy.)
SAFETY REMINDERS:
05082012 Capacitor Inspections
REVISIONS: (PLEASE LOOK THESE TWO OVER AGAIN. THEY HAVE BEEN REVISED):
03302012 Break-Away Connector for bonding un-insulated equipment into a Equi-Potential Zone
04032012 Cable Break=Away Connector for Bonding
LAST, BUT VERY IMPORTANT ! THE HEAT IS ON ! PLEASE REVIEW THE FOLLOWING HEAT DOCUMENTS:
04032012 Heat Stress Management
08042012 High Heat Safety Bulletin
Once again I would like to remind you that we feel we have the best Contractors in the industry. Your services are needed, and very much appreciated.
PLEASE WORK SAFE !!!
OSHA – Construction’s “Fatal Four”
http://www.osha.gov/oshstats/commonstats.html
Attached: OSHA Construction’s “Fatal Four”
“Every day in America, 13 people go to work and never come home. Every year in America, nearly 4 million people suffer a workplace injury from which some may never recover. These are preventable tragedies that disable our workers, devastate our families, and damage our economy. American workers are not looking for a handout or a free lunch. They are looking for a good day’s pay for a hard day’s work. They just want to go to work, provide for their families, and get home in one piece.”
– Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis, Workers Memorial Day speech April 26, 2012
“Passed with bipartisan support, the creation of OSHA was a historic moment of cooperative national reform. Forty years of common-sense standards and strong enforcement, training, outreach and compliance assistance have saved thousands of lives and prevented countless injuries. Just look at the difference: In 1970, 38 workers were killed on the job every day in America; now it’s 13 a day. This is a great improvement, but it’s still 13 too many.”
– OSHA Assistant Secretary of Labor David Michaels, Workers Memorial Day remarks, National Labor College, Silver Spring, MD, April 27, 2012
Construction’s “Fatal Four”
Out of 4,206* worker fatalities in private industry in calendar year 2010, 774 or 18.7% were in construction. The leading causes of worker deaths on construction sites were falls, followed by electrocution, struck by object, and caught-in/between. These “Fatal Four” were responsible for nearly three out of five (56%) construction worker deaths in 2010*, BLS reports. Eliminating the Fatal Four would save 437 workers’ lives in America every year.
Falls – 264 out of 774 total deaths in construction in CY 2010 (34%)
Electrocutions – 76 (10%)
Struck by Object – 64 (8%)
Caught-in/between – 33 (4%)
Top 10 most frequently cited OSHA standards violated in FY2011
- Scaffolding, general requirements, construction (29 CFR 1926.451)
- Fall protection, construction (29 CFR 1926.501)
- Hazard communication standard, general industry (29 CFR 1910.1200)
- Respiratory protection, general industry (29 CFR 1910.134)
- Control of hazardous energy (lockout/tagout), general industry (29 CFR 1910.147)
- Electrical, wiring methods, components and equipment, general industry (29 CFR 1910.305)
- Powered industrial trucks, general industry (29 CFR 1910.178)
- Ladders, construction (29 CFR 1926.1053)
- Electrical systems design, general requirements, general industry (29 CFR 1910.303)
- Machine guarding (machines, general requirements, general industry) (29 CFR 1910.212)
Multiple Substation Control House Doors
Purpose: Inform employees, contractors and management personnel of requirement to unlock secondary exit doors in control houses.
Attachment: Multiple Substation Control House Doors
