Wisconsin Safety Voice - Spring 2018

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SAFETY VOICE Spring 2018 Issue 4

Distracted Driving: The Silent Killer

ALSO INSIDE: n Safety at the Construction Site n Corporate Safety Award Winners Announced n Preventing the Number One Cause of Injury

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2018 Worker’s Compensation Law Symposium & Best Practices •OSHA Regulation Updates •Labor Law Changes NEW

September 13 The Edgewater 1001 Wisconsin Place Madison, WI 53703

REGISTER ONLINE: www.wisafetycouncil.org COURSE HIGHLIGHTS • OSHA’s new requirements • A complete review of coverage under the Wisconsin Worker’s Compensation Act and Federal FMLA • Analysis of employee benefit eligibility and claim administration

• Changes to labor laws • Fraud detection and prevention • The relationship of worker’s compensation to other employment laws such as the ADA, state and federal family and medical leave laws, and other state and federal laws

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Spring 2018 Issue 4

Distracted Driving: The Silent Killer

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6 N AT I O N A L SA F E T Y C O U N C I L Everyone Deserves a Safe Workplace 8

C OV E R STO RY Distracted Driving: The Silent Killer

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C O R P O RAT E SA F E T Y AWA R D S The Winners HA 1 2 OFallSProtection in the Workplace

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LETTER FROM THE WSC EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Do Me a Favor

SAFETY VOICE Kurt R. Bauer

Managing Editor Nick Novak

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s many of you know, I have been with Wisconsin Safety Council (WSC) for about six months now. While it has only been a short time, we have accomplished quite a bit since I became the new Executive Director. One of my favorite things I have been able to do is hit the road and meet all of you.

Our members are the best in the country and I always enjoy meeting with your teams to find out how you are putting safety first—both at work and outside of work.

Unfortunately, I have noticed something as I drive around Wisconsin. Not everyone on the roads is putting safety first. You would not believe—or sadly maybe you would—how many people I see who are texting, posting something on social media or even watching videos while driving!

It is an unfortunate part of living in a connected world that people think it is more important to send a text or like a post than it is stay concentrated on driving at 70 miles per hour. This is dangerous and it needs to stop.

So, could you please do me a favor?

Don’t be distracted while you drive. Put the cell phone away and pay attention to the road. The people in your vehicle and the ones around you will thank you.

While I mentioned texting and social media above, I also want to stress that any type of multitasking while driving

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is dangerous—even using Bluetooth for a call. You can read more about this on page eight from our in-house safety trainer, Chevon Cook.

Eliminating these distractions is so crucial. At your next safety meeting with employees, ask them how many have texted or talked on the phone while driving. If they are honest, I bet most of them would raise their hands.

That is why we at WSC are here to help. We want you to create a culture of safety where instead of it being second nature to answer your phone while driving, it is second nature to put away distractions.

If you would like to plan a private distracted driving training course for your employees, let us know. We want Wisconsin to be the safest place to live, work and play—and that includes our roads. n To schedule a private training at your facility, contact WSC at 608-258-3400.

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Everyone Deserves a Safe Workplace

By Amy Harper, PhD Journey to Safety Excellence & Workplace Strategy Director, National Safety Council

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here is no doubt about it, construction is a dangerous industry. With a total of 5,190 fatal workplace incidents in 2016, 970 of those killed were construction workers, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This is the third consecutive increase in annual workplace

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fatalities and the first time more than 5,000 fatalities have been recorded by the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI) since 2008. One growing area of safety concern in construction and beyond is the use of temporary and contract workers.

Contract worker fatalities account-

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ed for 17 percent of all workplace fatalities in 2015, and workers were most often contracted by private construction firms, according to the BLS. Contract workers are a vulnerable population often performing higher risk jobs in worksites with little to no management supervision.

Companies using contract employees, therefore, need a comprehensive program that manages this area of risk on jobsites.

The Campbell Institute, the center of excellence for environmental health and safety at the National Safety Council, conducted research into how world-class organizations approach around contractor management. The research found five crucial steps of the contractor lifecycle: 1. Prequalification 2. Pre-job task and risk assessment 3. Training and orientation 4. Job monitoring 5. Post-job evaluation

Our nationwide surveys have told us that more than 70 percent of employers have felt the impact of prescription drug use.

A contractor management program should “qualify” contractors that meet standards set by the hiring organization. A new NSC study shows that contractors subjected to prequalification have better average Total Recordable Rates (TRR), Days Away, Restricted or Transferred (DART) Rates, and Lost Workday Rates (LWR) within individual industries and all industries as a whole.

Organizations using temporary or contract workers are responsible for the safety and health of those workers. In 2013, the U.S. Occupational

Safety and Health Administration launched its Temporary Worker Initiative (TWI) focused on staffing firm and host employer compliance with safety and health requirements when temporary workers are employed under this joint or dual employment arrangement.

TWI states that whoever is in the best position to ensure the safety and health of temporary workers has the obligation to do so. Below are some key measures host employers should follow to ensure temporary worker safety: • Prior to contracting with a staffing firm: • Provide the staffing firm with requested safety data and information for your organization –provide information that will allow them to make a determination as to the safety of your worksite.

• Allow the staffing firm physical access to the worksite to enable them to appropriately evaluate the safety of your worksite.

• Prior to temporary workers beginning work at your organization’s worksite: • Provide temporary workers a site-specific orientation that includes emergency procedures, information on reporting injuries, and company safety policies and procedures.

• Provide temporary workers job-specific training including procedures, equipment, required PPE and information on specific hazards the worker may encounter (chemical exposures, noise, etc.).

• Furnish PPE and train on its

use, maintenance, etc. (if applicable).

• In the event a temporary worker is injured while under supervision by the host employer, the host employer must: • Report injuries involving loss of an eye, amputation or in-patient hospitalization to OSHA within the required timeframe.

• Record the injury on their OSHA 300 log regardless of what their contract with the staffing firm might say.

• In addition, the host employer should conduct a thorough incident investigation and implement identified corrective actions by either party.

• If possible, the host employer should make every effort to accommodate return to work assignments as it reduces their “days away from work” OSHA metric.

To keep those in the construction industry safe, companies need to foster a culture of safety that involves all workers whether full-time, temporary or contract. Contractor safety management programs help to make clear the responsibilities for worker safety so they are able to return to their loved ones at the end of each and every work day. n

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Distracted Driving: The Silent Killer

By Chevon Cook Wisconsin Safety Council Safety Manager

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n today’s busy world, many of us look for ways to maximize the working hours of our day. We answer emails while speaking to customers on the phone, and we hold conference calls with coworkers while we hammer out a report for our bosses.

Unfortunately many of us conduct business on our cell phones while we are driving. It would be nice to think that every driver understands the risks associated with distracted driving; more often than not this is not the case.

Of course, using your cell phone isn’t the only kind of distracted driving that leads to motor vehicle crashes and collisions. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), 3,263 drivers were involved in 3,196 distraction-affected car crashes that led to at least one fatality in 2015.

Distracted driving accounted for 7 percent of drivers involved in any kind of fatal car crash incident. 10 percent of the car crash fatalities in 2015—3,477 people—were the result of distracted drivers.

Even more alarming, 442 of the distracted-affected car crashes that led to 476 car crash fatalities

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involved the use of cell phones or other cell-phone-related activities.

This accounts for 14 percent of the distracted-affected car crashes and 14 percent of the car crash fatalities in 2015. In each of these cases, drivers felt it was more important to talk on, listen to, or otherwise utilize their cell phone at the time of the crash, versus practicing safe driving techniques.

I first experienced the controversy around the use of cell phones while driving when I moved to Chicago in 2006 for work. One of the first items

Distracted driving accounted for 7 percent of drivers involved in any kind of fatal car crash incident. 10 percent of the car crash fatalities in 2015—3,477 people—were the result of distracted drivers. my manager addressed was to make sure I don’t use my cell phone while driving. “Chicago made it illegal” was part of his comment. Over the next few weeks, I observed coworkers

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griping about the change, claiming how this has negatively impacted their productivity. Not long after I started, my manager came into the office, boasting about a new Bluetooth headset for use while driving, performing tasks, walking…basically any activity that required hand use. I had seen them used by others in the past, and it was interesting to see the popularity of the Bluetooth headset spread like wildfire in the office.

There are two sources of concern to address in this situation: multitasking while driving, and the theory that talking on a hands-free device while driving is safer than utilizing a handheld device.

Many people believe that multitasking allows them to work efficiently, and the same holds true for businesses. Take a look through job descriptions on various job search websites. Some will point-blank state that the ability to multi-task is a qualification of the position. Others may be a little more subtle, stating qualifications include “ability to prioritize work” or “ability to handle multiple tasks”. It’s no wonder that the workers of today feel that the art of multi-tasking is a much-needed

skill! This belief can lead to unsafe behaviors such as cell phone use while driving.

More and more studies are showing that multi-tasking actually leads to employees making more mistakes, retaining less information, and forcing our brain to function in a different capacity. The University of Southern California’s Applied Psychology program identified some interesting characteristics of multi-tasking in their research on human behavior: • Multi-tasking forces the left and right sides of the brain to work independently, causing a person to forget details and make three times more mistakes on each task being performed simultaneously • Multi-tasking leads to a temporary decline in a person’s IQ score • Multi-tasking is less efficient because it takes extra time to shift mental gears each time a person switches between tasks • Multi-tasking while doing natural tasks like eating and walking are easy to accomplish, versus complicated tasks like texting while driving The concerns around the use of a hands-free device to talk on the phone while driving needs to be

addressed as well. According to research conducted by the National Safety Council in 2012, there are additional risks that drivers take on when using a cell phone while driving, even with a hands-free device: • Drivers experience inattention blindness—or a cognitive distraction—where they “look at” objects, but don’t really “see” objects • Drivers experience slower response and reaction times, due to the “shift in mental gears” process that must take place • Drivers have more difficulty staying in their lane • Drivers engaging in cell phone conversations bring four times the crash risk while on our roadways The statistics surrounding cell phone use while driving are quite alarming! Smartphones allow us to be connected at all times, which is just fine in certain situations. The use of cell phones while driving poses serious safety risks whenever a driver decides to utilize their phone for even one second.

Many states have adopted laws surrounding hand-held cell phone use and texting while driving. Zero states currently ban all cell phone use

for all drivers, which would incorporate the use of hands-free devices.

Without the warnings around the use of hands-free devices being coupled with the hand-held laws in place, it’s hard to predict when we will start to see a decline in distracted-affected car crashes and fatalities in the United States.

Education and training around the hazards involved with cell phone use while driving is very crucial for all drivers, whether driving for work or personal reasons. This is one of the main reasons why the Wisconsin Safety Council promotes and provides defensive driving courses in both a public and private training format. We want to ensure that drivers are provided with the fundamental defensive driving strategies and skills needed to change risky behind-thewheel behaviors and attitudes.

So the next time you’re driving and hear an incoming call come in on your phone, think twice about answering. By eliminating the use of your cell phone while driving, you can reduce the risk of being involved in an accident and help keep yourself and others safety on our roadways. n

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CONGRATULATIONS TO THIS YEAR'S CORPORATE SAFETY AWARD WINNERS! Nucor Cold Finish Wisconsin

Oshkosh Defense, LLC – North Plant

Category A1 | Oak Creek nucor.com Nucor Cold Finish Wisconsin is centered around its 72 teammates and operates in Oak Creek. The organization specializes in the cold drawing of square, flat, hexagon and round bars, that range from half inch bars in diameter to a 6”x6” square, eight feet in length to forty feet. These bars are then sold to manufacturers across the nation to make consumer and industrial goods. In 2007, Nucor started with an IIR rate of 12.8, but ultimately achieved “beyond zero” in 2017. Additionally, the division has worked over 482,000 hours without a Lost Work Day, going back all the way to August 2014.

Category A4 | Oshkosh oshkoshcorporation.com

The North Plant facility is the oldest facility and original location of Oshkosh Corporation. Since 1917, Oshkosh has been manufacturing heavy trucks for multiple applications. It is with pride and passion that every employee makes warfighters that will bring home our military men and women safe. Team members watch out for each other’s safety, train each other on proper techniques for the job or task and truly look for ways to prevent an injury by taking extra precautions or eliminating hazards where possible. North Plant was able to achieve zero lost time injuries for over 650 days and almost 700,000 work hours from November 2015 to September 2017.

Gusmer Enterprises, Inc.

Linetec

Category A2 | Waupaca gusmerenterprises.com

Gusmer Enterprises is a wet laid non-wovens mill located in Waupaca. Since its founding, it has grown into an extremely diverse manufacturer producing: spill clean-up materials for hazardous and non-hazardous spills, absorbent carrier products, animal bedding, as well as a wide variety of filtration products.

The top corporate motto is; “Safety is key because our employees are our greatest asset.” Since its employees are Gusmer’s greatest asset, the company understands the importance of investing monetarily in safety equipment like LED reverse indicators on fork trucks, lift tables and fall protection systems. In 2017, it had the fewest recordable injuries on record.

Category A5 | Wausau linetec.com Linetec was founded in 1983. It is a single source for electrostatic solvent-based paint, anodize and powder paint finishes in Wausau, employing 572 associates. The company’s #1 core value is Safety. The 3-year industry average OSHA incident rate for businesses in the metal finishing / coating industry is 5.0. Linetec has performed below that mark since 2004. A 1.0 incident rate is considered world class in the safety industry and was achieved in 2010 and 2011. In 2017, Linetec dropped its incident rate to 0.86 thanks to a new behavioral-based safety program, expansion of new hire orientation and over $200,000 invested in lift assist throughout the facility.

Husky Energy - Superior Refinery

NextEra Energy Point Beach Nuclear Plant

Category A3 | Superior huskyenergy.com

The Superior Refinery is located in Superior approximately two miles from the shores of Lake Superior. It is the only oil refinery in Wisconsin. The refinery employees 165 employees that safely convert up to 1.9 million gallons of raw crude oil per day into gasoline, diesel fuel, fuel oils, asphalt and liquefied petroleum gases. The company embraces the philosophy that “if it isn’t safe, we don’t do it.” Employees are actively involved in the safety process. Husky’s high degree of employee involvement, emphasis on the safety of processing units and the empowerment of employees is the reason for our high performing safety process.

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Category B1 | Two Rivers nexteraenergy.com Point Beach Nuclear Power Plant is a dual unit 1,200 megawatt nuclear power generating station owned and operated by Nextera Energy Resources, LLC. Point Beach has been recognized

by OSHA as a Voluntary Protection Program Star worksite since 2011. Additionally, the plant is rated as a number 1 topperforming facility by the Institute of Nuclear Power Operators and is in top decile in safety performance. The team’s safety motto is: GO-PACKERS! Get Onboard- Peer Actions Can Keep Everyone Really Safe! All employees are empowered to identify and correct unsafe acts, at risk behaviors and maintain a “See Something - Say Something” mentality.

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LAKEHEAD PAINTING COMPANY, INC.

Husky Energy - Superior and Rhinelander Terminals

Category C1 | Superior lakeheadpainting.com

Category D1 |Superior huskyenergy.com

Lakehead Painting Company is a family-owned business founded in 1965. Lakehead is an industrial and commercial painting contractor that employs approximately 25 union and 5 management employees in the construction industry. The majority of Lakehead’s work is performed in the oil and gas industry with a focus on painting, abrasive blasting and fiber glassing of crude oil storage tanks. In 2017, two accomplishments of note are the decrease in Lakehead’s Experience Modification Rating (EMR) – 1.05 in 2010 to .64 currently – and zero recordable injuries for the entire year. The EMR is a very powerful tool to translate safety and health efforts into monetary value.

Bassett Mechanical

Category C2 | Kaukauna bassettmechanical.com Bassett Mechanical provides custom-built mechanical contracting, metals fabricating and maintenance service solutions to customers throughout the United States and the world.

Employees are encouraged to continuously search for, report and follow up on any safety improvement opportunities and report any near misses. In 2017, Bassett had 595 safety opportunities reported. Every one of these opportunities was reviewed by a committee, tracked and followed up with, until an acceptable solution was enacted. The company finished the year with a 1.5 TRIR, zero lost time injuries and zero restricted work days.

In addition, Bassett haw surpassed 2,800,000 employee hours without a lost time injury.

The Boldt Company

The Husky Wisconsin Terminals, located in Superior and Rhinelander distribute refined oil products from the Husky Superior Oil Refinery to customers in northern Wisconsin and eastern Minnesota. At the Superior Terminal, gasoline, diesel and bunker fuels are loaded onto truck tankers for distribution into the local market. At the Rhinelander Terminal, asphalt is loaded onto truck tankers for asphalt paving in Northeast Wisconsin and Western Michigan markets. The facilities carry out a number of different trainings which set them apart from other safety programs. The Superior and Rhinelander Terminals strive for the enhancement of safety beyond compliance which helps them to exceed industry safety standards.

ITU ABSORBTECH

Category D2 | New Berlin ituabsorbtech.com Family-owned and operated since its founding in 1930, ITU AbsorbTech provides managed services for a full range of launderable products for industry. We operate two large laundry processing facilities in Wisconsin, each with the many inherent hazards associated with the industry. We are proud of the consistency in our safety performance over the past ten years. It is who we are; an important part of our culture. Strategically, we consider safety on par with growth and profitability. In fact, it is the top strategic initiative in our business plan. Our employees across the company know this, and it positively influences their behaviors and thinking.

Colony Brands, Inc.

Category C3 | Appleton theboldtcompany.com

Category D3 |Monroe colonybrands.com

The Boldt Company has been a leading general contractor and construction firm since its founding in 1889. Headquartered in Appleton, the company consists of five operating group areas that include additional Wisconsin locations in Waukesha, Milwaukee, Madison, Stevens Point and Green Bay, as well as offices in Michigan, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Illinois and California, and approximately 4,000 employees nationwide. Over the last 10 years, Boldt’s lost time incidence rates have been consistently below the national average in the construction industry. In 2017, Boldt accomplished a Lost Time Rate that is the lowest in Boldt’s recorded history. This was the result of the implementation and improvement of several safety systems.

Point Beach Nuclear Power Plant is a dual unit 1,200 megawatt nuclear power generating station owned and operated by NextEra Energy Resources, LLC; a subsidiary of NextEra Energy, Inc. Point Beach has been recognized by OSHA as a Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) Star worksite since 2011. At Point Beach, our value is to live the safety guiding principles every day. The Point Beach management staff demonstrates active leadership, by providing the resources necessary to correct unsafe conditions in the facility that are identified by the workforce.

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Fall Protection in the Workplace

By Leslie Ptak Compliance Assistance Specialist, US. Department of Labor/OSHA

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he 5th annual National Safety Stand-Down week will take place May 7–11, 2018, and your company is invited to participate. The goal of the Stand-Down week is to raise fall hazard awareness and prevent fall fatalities and injuries. Participation is open to all industries, not just construction, and no business is too small to participate. Nearly half of the events recorded through OSHA’s Stand-Down website in past years were for events with less than 25 employees.

In 2017, eight Wisconsin employees were killed in work-related falls. In that same year, employers reported 562 severe injuries to their local Wisconsin OSHA offices. One of every four of these was due to a fall. These were injuries that were bad enough that the employee had to be formally admitted to the hospital.

Can you guess the leading cause of a severe injury due to a fall in 2017? Well, here is a hint: Employers operating in the Florida Keys or the San Diego coast don’t have this concern. Exactly one of every four falls that resulted in admittance to the hospital in Wisconsin was a fall on an icy parking lot or walkway. Yes, fellow Wisconsinites,

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as we enjoy our months-long winter season, freeze/thaw cycles, and all those payments to firms that plow, sand and salt our parking lots and walkways, be assured that there is at least one icy spot that was missed. And that is the patch of ice most likely to result in an employee needing surgery to an arm or ankle or experiencing head trauma.

A fall from a ladder ranked as the second most likely cause of a severe fall injury (one of every five cases). The other causes were a motley assortment where employees fell off equipment, such as order pickers, scissor lifts, and trucks or vans (15%), fell down stairs (5%), over pallets (4%) or caught their feet in other objects (the rest of the cases).

Can participation in the annual safety stand-down make a difference? When you consider the pain and suffering, as well as the workers compensation payments, lost time, business disruption, OSHA investigations, and possible disability that fall injuries present to your company, the time spent dedicated to a stand-down week can be invaluable. Start with the top two causes. Is your parking lot snow removal as effective as it could be?

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Do you use ladders? Do you need to use ladders? Then look to the basics. Do you have a process in place for identifying fall hazards?

How are they addressed when brought to the attention of management?

The Stand-Down week is an invitation to employers to communicate the hazards of falls to employees.

Done effectively, employees get the message that falls are preventable and that management is concerned for their welfare. It also is an opportunity to look at what your fall hazards are and how you currently address them. Companies may participate by: • providing a focused toolbox talk on a fall hazards topic in at your place of work • taking time to share real-life stories of fall protection successes and lessons learned • providing longer fall hazard awareness training for your safety committee • sending stand-down information to employees by email or in newsletters • conducting joint employee and management worksite inspections • initiating a campaign where the employee who finds the most fall

National Safety STAND-DOWN TO PREVENT FALLS IN CONSTRUCTION

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Stop Falls Stand-Down Plan a toolbox talk or other safety activity Take a break to talk about how to prevent falls Provide training for all workers

OSHA 3774-01 2018

For more information: www.osha.gov/StopFallsStandDown #StandDown4Safety • (800) 321-OSHA (6742) Safety Pays. Falls Cost.

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hazards at the workplace in a week winds a prize • visiting a “sister” worksite and conducting an inspection of their fall hazards • sponsoring a safety poster contest.

The important thing is to do something to increase fall preven-

tion awareness. In fact, the largest single participant in 2015 and 2016 was the United States Air Force, reaching more than 1 million military and civilian personnel, who deal with the challenges of fall protection for mechanics that need to climb F-16 aircraft. One of the smallest was a small contractor with 12 employees in a specialty trade.

This year’s stand down is timely in that the Agency’s new Walking and Working Surfaces1 standard, which is the general industry2 fall protection standard, has been in effect for just one year. This standard revamped entirely the requirements for making walking and working surfaces safer. (The previous version had not been revised in more than 40 years.) There are requirements for dock boards, service pits, mezzanines, low-sloped roofs, windowwashers, ladders and dozens of other topics. It includes training and inspection requirements, and an entirely new section on personal fall protection systems (1910.140).

Analyze the gaps to see where your workplace stands compared to the new requirements.

OSHA has posted free resources on the Stand-Down web page

to provide a menu of options for employers. Resources in English and Spanish include fact sheets, a training guide, posters, videos, wallet cards, and instructions on how to conduct a Stand-Down.

If a company or organization wants to post a free event that is open to the public (including any members of the press) on the OSHA Stand-Down web page, or would like to invite OSHA to participate in a free public event, each OSHA region has a Stand-Down Coordinator they can contact to get additional information. In Wisconsin, contact your local OSHA office .

Don’t forget to certify your standdown. As in previous years, employers will be able to download Certificates of Participation and provide feedback on their experiences following their Stand-Down.

Certificates are the main way OSHA receives feedback on how many employers participate and ideas for improvement, so that OSHA can evaluate the Stand-Down’s success and make changes in the future. Certificates will be available on OSHA’s web page beginning May 2018. n

OSHA’s Walking and Working Surfaces rule is Subpart D of 1910 and has been in effect for general industry workplaces since January of 2017.

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General industry is loosely defined as industries other than construction and its standards are in 29 CFR 1910. Construction fall hazards are addressed in 29 CFR 1926 with fall protection, ladder and other standards.

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Resources • Stand-Down for Fall Protection: https://www.osha.gov/StopFallsStandDown/index.html • Walking-Working Surfaces: https://www.osha.gov/walking-working-surfaces/index.html • Personal Fall Protection Systems: https://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_ table=STANDARDS&p_id=1291 OSHA developed this article for informational purposes only. It does not necessarily reflect the official views of OSHA or the U.S. Department of Labor. February 2018.

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Chevon Cook, Safety Manager at Wisconsin Safety Council, leading a confined space trainthe-trainer program for WSC members.

Wisconsin Safety Council Executive Director Janet Metzger recognizing Worzalla Publishing of Stevens Point for one million hours without a lost-time accident.

Tom Jaeger with Performance Roofing Systems receiving his Advanced Safety Certificate at the Wisconsin Safety Council headquarters in Madison.

Wisconsin Safety Council staff and conference planning committee members meeting in Madison in advance of the 76th annual Safety & Health Conference and Expo.

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