Office Safety Stand Down
We all have organized Safety Stand Down Days at facilities or sites. What ideas are out there to do a Safety Stand Down at the Office? Current ideas are:
1) Review Emergency Action Plan and have a scavenger hunt. Locate Fire Extinguishers, AED, First Aid Kits, and inspect Shelter in Place locations to ensure they have not turned into a catch all full of boxes etc.
2) Safety walk of the office area. Identify cords or other trip hazards, power strips and outlets not daisy chained or overloaded. Space heaters unplugged and are the approved wattage and design.
3) Challenge office employees to find ways to engage the facilities they support in safety. Can they arrange with leadership to take popsicles or water and give it to the employee working.
4) Engage floor employees to give feedback on hazards and work with them to eliminate or reduce risk.
I would love any ideas you all have.
James Brodie
Comments (4)
Fire drill and hazard hunt! Ergonomics evaluations too.
Ergonomics at the desk/ work station. Just an idea.
This is an AWESOME IDEA!
Your off to a great start. But I would also recommend a module on Office Ergonomics. Office areas are often over looked especially ergo in a manufacturing facility. My corporation mandated a from Ergo Policy and program for the plant. I got one started with a very team made up of hourly employees and led by an hourly employee (coached by me). It took lots of training and patience but after 18 months we were really doing great things out in the plant. Thinks I never dreamed possible. as an HR and OHS Manager is an large plant, we were of course self-insured. We were seriously making a huge dent in our DART and TIR rates as well as bringing WC cents incurred/labor hour from $.65 hour to under the corporate goal of $.05.hr our major WC metric, self insured do not have "Mod Rates". But we forgot the office, "out of the blue' we had 3 Carpal Tunnel Cases, two bi-lateral and one, one sided. We also had to major back cases. All from the office and in a span on three months! As an experienced WC Adm I would have challenged the CT cases esp the one sided as work-related, except the three were all very popular among all employees and the one-sided *which we had the best case was the Plant Manager's assistant, Those five cases amounted to a hit to the WC reserves of about $300K!
What was really hard to swallow if we would have paid attention to to office to simple Ergo Evals and solutions would have prevented or at least postponed the CT cases and given us defenses on all of them! Had we given lifting lessons and put all the office employees through out "Lifting-Lab", like we did with all plant employees we may have avoided at least one of the back cases if not them both!
Just padding the sharp edges on the desks, that cut in to the wrists while keyboarding would have saved a lot of pain and resources ($). Pipe insulation at $1 for 12' at Menards is the best and simplest padding there is.
Great start!