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Summer Spike
by OneWatco
Shoving, Housekeeping, Eye Protection Are Summer Spike Topics for June
Watco’s Summer Spike program is under way. This year one topic of high risk will be covered each month for the transportation; material handling and storage, and logistics; and repair and maintenance areas. Each week the safety department leadership will give locations an aspect of that topic to focus on in order to bring awareness and methods of prevention to the forefront of the team members’ minds as they go about their daily tasks.
The topics for the month of June are:
Transportation – Shoving Movements
Shoving movements happen many times throughout the day and can be dangerous if not performed correctly. Team members providing transportation services will look at the Take 5 rules for shoving, movements over grade crossings, movements through gates and doorways, and the importance of communication when shoving.
Housekeeping is important to all areas of the company, but for the material handling and storage/ logistics team members, it’s an area that has caused incidents in the past. The team will focus on why housekeeping is important, the impression that housekeeping makes, how it increases efficiency, and how it builds stronger teams.
Repair and Maintenance – Eye Protection
According to the Centers for Disease Control, each year about 2,000 U.S. workers sustain a job-related eye injury that requires medical treatment. This statistic, along with the fact that from 2018-2021 repair and maintenance services accounted for all Watco recordable eye injuries, is why eye protection is the first topic that team will cover. They will talk about why it’s important to have the discussion, how to recognize hazards, what types of eye protection are used for the different tasks, and how to don (put on) and doff (take off) gear to prevent eye injury.
The goal is to complete Summer Spike with each team member having a better knowledge of the safety issues most common to their service area so that they can prevent incidents and celebrate an injury-free summer.
