WRITTEN
POLICIES & TRAINING
Written Policies:
Our written safety
policies, along with associated safety education and training programs, are
listed alphabetically below. They have been developed to support your
safety program efforts by identifying and addressing applicable federally
required OSHA programs that may affect your business.
Training:
SAM is an OSHA Training Institute (OTI) Authorized
Instructor for both General Industry and Construction 10-Hour and 30-Hour
Outreach Training courses. All four (4) of these courses lead to
course completion cards as issued by OSHA.
 The New England States (MA, CT, RI, NH) have passed
into law (over various recent years) that contractors submitting and being
awarded bids for the construction, reconstruction, alteration,
remodeling or repair of any public work by the respective commonwealth, or
political subdivision thereof, or by any county, city, town, district, or
housing authority, and estimated by the awarding authority to cost more than
$10,000 to $100,000 (depending on the state's law) shall
"certify that all employees to be employed at the worksite will have
successfully completed a course in construction safety and health approved
by the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration that is
at least 10 hours in duration at the time the employee begins work and who
shall furnish documentation of successful completion of said course with the
first certified payroll report for each employee."
Additionally, SAM is a:
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certified trainer for the National Safety Council's
Advanced Safety Certificate courses and
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a registered Third party Instructor under the Right to
Know Law of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Division of Occupational
Safety.
Summary:
SAM stands ready to help you
and your in-house staff:
To identify those safety and health
standards that are necessary for your business’ continued success,
To develop customized safety and health
programs and policies specific to your business needs, and
To conduct quality, documented training
of affected employees, contract employees and contractors on these standards
and policies.
A
brief description of each policy / standard and/or training course is
included. Please contact us if you have a policy or program need that may
not be listed below.
Bloodborne
Pathogens
 Confined
Space Entry
Contractor
Safety Requirements
Chains,
Cranes, Ropes, Hoists, Slings
Electrical
Safety Related Work Practices - 29 CFR 1910.269
Electrical
Safety Work Practices
- 29 CFR 1910.331-335
Emergency
Evacuation & Disaster Planning
Ergonomics
Fall
Protection
Fire
Protection
First
Aid, CPR & Medical Services
Flammable
& Combustible Liquids Handling, Dispensing and Storage
Hand
& Portable Power Tools
Hazard
Communication (Right to Know)
Hazardous
Waste
Hearing
Conservation
Hot
Work Permits
Housekeeping
Identification
of Piping Systems
Incident
Investigation
Job
Safety Analysis
Job
Safety Briefing
Line
Breaking
Lockout/Tagout
(The Control Of Hazardous Energy)
Logging
Operations
Machine
Guarding
Management
Emergency Response Planning - Training Program
Manually
Propelled Mobile and Upright Scaffolding
Occupational
Safety And Health Administration (OSHA) Safety Inspection Protocol
OSHA
2003 Record Keeping - A Practical Workshop
Permit
Required Confined Space
Personal
Protective Equipment (PPE)
Portable
Ladders
Powered
Industrial Trucks & Material Handling
Respiratory
Protection
Safety
Inspections
Safety
Policies & Responsibilities
Substance
Abuse Program Development
Work
Permits
Walking
- Working Surfaces
Worker
Safety Program
Bloodborne Pathogens Exposure
Control Plan
OSHA’s Bloodborne Pathogen Standard, 29 CFR
1910.1030, outlines the requirements that apply to all occupational
exposures to blood or other potentially infectious materials. Each
employer is required to establish a written Exposure Control Plan
designed to eliminate or minimize employee exposures to blood or
infectious material. This procedure outlines a Plan that has been
developed to cover all employees who could be " reasonably anticipated",
as the result of performing their job duties, to face contact with blood
and other potentially infectious materials.
Confined Space Entry
See "Permit Required
Confined Spaces"
Contractor Safety
Requirements
This "Contractor Safety Requirements"
policy becomes a broad summary overview of your company’s safety manual,
developed specifically for your company, in conjunction with your local
managers.
When completed it will contain the minimum
safety rules, regulations and procedures for performance of work by
contractors and their subcontractors as required by your company’s
safety standards and procedures. It addresses the requirement that
safety rules, regulations and procedures are an integral part of each
contract you award and must be carried out fully, as any other
specification for the job. It clearly states that the contractor will be
held responsible for his subcontractor’s compliance with your rules,
regulations and procedures. It includes the provision that any exception
to the requirements set forth, herein, must have prior written
authorization from a company representative and notes that should any
procedures set forth herein conflict with applicable federal, state, or
local laws, the latter will apply.
Chains, Cranes, Ropes, Hoists
and Slings Inspection
This practice provides the minimum
requirements for the safe use, operation, inspection and maintenance of
cranes, hoists, chains, ropes and slings. It covers the minimum training
and education requirements for crane and hoist operators, rigging
personnel, inspectors and maintenance personnel to assure compliance
with applicable Federal, State and Local regulations. It applies to all
operations unless more stringent government/state regulations exist
which will need to be followed by your company.
It includes all cranes and hoists, whether
powered or manual operated from floor level, but does not include
crawler, locomotive and truck cranes, derricks, or cab or pulpit
operated cranes.
It addresses all chains, ropes and slings,
designed for attaching a load to the hoist equipment. (Slings, basket
type fixtures, grabs, magnets (electro and pneumatic), eye bolts, etc.
Electrical Safety Related Work Practices – 29 CFR
1910.269
This practice
provides personnel safety, maintains integrity of service, and protects
apparatus. It covers direction and control, through the use of orders,
switches, tags, and/or locks, during required processes of removing
apparatus from service, isolating apparatus, and insuring that apparatus
is not inadvertently energized during any work process. It is based on
the requirements of the OSHA ”vertical” standard 1910.269, ‘Electric Power
Generation, Transmission and Distribution’.
Electrical
Safety Work Practices – 29 CFR 1910.331-335
This practice
provides minimum performance requirements for electrical safety work
practices for both qualified and unqualified persons who are working on,
near or with installations of electrical conductors or equipment within or
on buildings or other structures and installations of conductors that
connect to the supply of electricity under the OSHA “horizontal” standards
1910.331-335 of Subpart S, Electrical.
Emergency Evacuation &
Disaster Planning
This practice, which outlines the
requirements of a local site emergency and/or building evacuation plan,
can minimize the impact of man-made or natural disasters, bio-terrorism
threats, and workplace violence on your company’s employees and
operations. The policy addresses these primary concerns for the health
and welfare of employees (full time and contract) and visitors. This
practice will allow your company to identify, initiate and/or expand the
necessary emergency measures to cope with potential facility and/or
building emergencies and evacuations.
Ergonomics
This practice established minimum
guidelines for the analysis, prevention, resolution, or elimination of
occupational, job-related muscoskeletal ergonomic stressors in the
workplace that could lead to repetitive motion injuries to hands,
wrists, arms, shoulders and backs.
Fall Protection
This practice covers the requirements and
criteria, including definitions, for fall protection equipment as well
as when and how to use fall protection equipment when working from
levels which mandate the use of fall protection. It covers your duties
as an employer and the duties, requirements, criteria, and practices
mandated in OSHA’s 29 CFR 1926 Subpart M – Fall Protection as they apply
to your employees and all contractors working on your company’s
construction property or project.
Fire Protection
This
program covers the requirements for all portable fire extinguishers,
fixed fire suppression equipment, fire detection systems, fire or
employee alarm systems and training requirements needed to meet the
applicable requirements of OSHA’s regulations under Subpart L – Fire
Protection.
First
Aid, CPR & Medical Services
This
policy addresses the providing of medical services and first aid at
company facilities, workplaces and construction sites under direct
company control as required by OSHA’s regulations under Subpart K –
Medical and First Aid.
Flammable/Combustible Liquids Handling, Dispensing and Storage
This practice covers the procedures for the
safe handling, dispensing and storage of flammable and combustible
liquids (raw materials, intermediary products and waste) in order to
prevent fire and environmental damage as a result of the accidental
spillage or ignition of these materials. Successfully put into practice,
your company will meet the flammable and combustible liquid codes and
standards of the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), OSHA, DOT,
your property insurance carriers and other governing authorities having
jurisdiction.
Hand & Portable Power Tools
This
practice applies to a company’s general safety responsibility for the
safe condition of the tools and equipment used by employees. It
outlines precautions to be followed by all employees regarding the
proper use and maintenance of hand and portable power tools and
equipment.
Hazard Communication
(Right to Know)
This practice informs employees at your
company of their "right to know" about hazardous substances that they
may or will be exposed to in your facility and assures that they are
adequately trained. This practice will outline the information and
training that is necessary to comply with the requirements of OSHA
Standard 29 CFR 1910.1200, Hazard Communication.
Hazardous Waste
This
written program’s goal is to protect human health and the environment
from threats posed by hazardous waste. Management of hazardous waste,
including container usage, labeling and separation of hazardous waste
and hazardous substances is covered.
Hearing Conservation
Protection
of employees against hearing loss as a result of the effects or
work-related noise exposure is accomplished through a Hearing
Conservation program whenever noise exposure equal or exceed an 8-hour
time-weighted average sound level of 85 decibels. This program is
applicable to all employees, contract employees and contractors working
within the company’s work environment.
Hot
Work Permits
Hot work
permits are used to regulate the “hot work” activities such as welding,
brazing, soldering, heat treating, grinding, powder-actuated tools, and
any other activity that may produce a spark, flame, or heat capable of
initiating a fire or explosion. The goal being avoidance of injury to
persons, damage to equipment and business interruption.
Housekeeping
Effective
housekeeping contributes to a safer work environment for all employees,
contract personnel, and visitors. It encompasses all work areas,
offices, buildings, productions areas, passageways, warehouses,
storerooms and service areas that are to be maintained in a clean,
orderly, sanitary and dry condition.
Identification of Piping
Systems
This practice establishes a common system
to assure prompt and accurate identification of materials conveyed in
piping systems to reduce the potential for accidents due to
identification error. Once in place, it allows employees, contractors
and emergency responders to readily identify and understand the
potential risks and hazards associated with piping. For the purpose of
this standard, piping systems are defined as pipes of any kind,
including fittings, valves and pipe coverings that serve as conduits for
the transport of gases, vapors, liquids, or semi-liquids.
Incident Investigations
It should be the policy of a company to
develop and follow safe work practices in all aspects of the business.
This includes development and adherence to incident investigation
procedures for all incidents that meet the expanded definition of an
incident. This standard covers the importance of investigating all
incidents (recordable, lost workday, restricted workday, near-miss,
fatality) and reviews the techniques used to complete an effective
investigation under the requirements of federal agencies such as OSHA
and DOT. It covers what to investigate, why an investigation should be
completed, how it is accomplished and preparation of the actual incident
report.
Job Safety
Analysis
This practice provides the fundamentals
of job safety analysis (JSA) and explains how it can be used as an
effective tool in the accident process. JSA is a tool that can be used
to establish proper job procedures and train employees in safer and more
efficient work methods.
Job
Safety Briefing
This
policy requires that all new, transferred or rehired employees, as well
as temporary help, receive training from their first line supervisor
covering the hazards that they may be exposed to in their specific work
surroundings. Written job instructions, JSAs, written plant or
department safety rules, emergency procedures and applicable MSDSs are
examples of training materials covered in a job safety briefing.
Line Breaking
Practice is currently being developed.
Check back with us!
Lockout/Tagout (The Control
Of Hazardous Energy)
This practice provides minimum performance
requirements for the control of hazardous energy and the prevention of
accidental or unexpected energization or start-up of machinery,
equipment or systems during repair. It requires the establishment of a
written energy control procedure that will serve as a minimal compliance
document as specified by 29 CFR 1910.147. It further covers
establishment of procedures, with documented employee training and
periodic inspections, for affixing appropriate lockout devices and/or
tagout devices to energy isolating devices, and to otherwise disable
machines or equipment to prevent injury to employees
Logging Operations
The logging industry
(felling and removing trees, climbing, chipping, brush cutting,
transporting of equipment and personnel) presents to both the employer
and the employee some of the most difficult and dangerous tasks and
duties recognized by OSHA. Employers are responsible for providing the
safest work environment possible. Employees are responsible for his/her
own safety while on the jobsite and must comply with the OSHA
regulations that apply to them. This comprehensive training program
covers the OSHA requirements under 1910.266, as well as 1st aid, fire
extinguishers, hand & portable power tools, hazard communication,
vehicle mounted work platforms and flammable & combustible liquids
handling.
Machine Guarding
Subpart O, Machinery and Machine
Guarding (29 CFR 1910.211-219) establishes the minimum criteria for
consistent and effective machine guarding practices to manage the risks
and to prevent machine related injuries. The required written program
addresses procedures to protect employees from the hazards of moving
parts of tools, machines and equipment such as point of operation,
ingoing (inrunning) nip points, rotating parts, flying chips and sparks.
Management Emergency Response
Planning -
Training Program
As an
operating entity, you must recognize the need and be capable of managing
the response and consequence requirements of industrial accidents and
related environmental and public safety consequences that present the
most dramatic risks for your company. While every effort should been
made to reduce the potential for such occurrences, it is imperative to
enhance your company's management capabilities under such situations.
Planning and actual program development should be proactive, such that
your management has made every attempt to anticipate and is prepared to
respond to the likely outcomes of a "potential" crisis situation. The
Management Emergency Response Plan (MERP) program outlines a 4-step
management protocol, command structure and basic procedures during
emergency response, through recovery and the “return to normal"
operations.
Manually Propelled Mobile and
Upright Scaffolding
This procedure provides requirements for
safe use, maintenance and repair of manually propelled mobile (portable
rolling scaffold supported by casters) scaffolds / work platforms and
upright scaffolds. It reviews the requirements for furnishing and
erecting / assembling scaffolds in accordance with OSHA standard 29 CFR
1910.28 and 29.
Occupational Safety &
Health Administration (OSHA) Safety Inspection Protocol
A company’s policy may or may not be to
admit OSHA inspectors at any time during normal business hours whether
they are coming in response to a complaint or merely to make a general
investigation. The law permits the exclusion of OSHA inspectors who do
not have a valid and proper warrant, issued by a court, covering the
specific action they propose to take. Since a company’s policy should be
to work closely with government agencies to insure safe work places for
it’s employees, this standard covers the protocols that companies may
use in support of OSHA guidelines and the compliance officers who are
held to this standards covered in the OSHA Compliance Officer’s Field
Manual.
OSHA 2003 Record Keeping – A
Practical Workshop
This is a practical half-day workshop that
provides skilled, personalized instruction regarding the OSHA inspection
process and how the new record keeping regulations should be put into
practice. Participants learn how to decide when an accident or illness
is recordable, how to complete the OSHA 300, 301 and 300A logs. Hands-on
case studies are used to detail how to complete all forms correctly,
file incident reports and calculate incidence rates.
Permit Required Confined
Space
This procedure provides the requirements
for the identification of confined spaces and outlines the mechanisms to
control potential hazards when entering confined spaces. Additionally,
the requirements for training; pre-entry issues; the duties of
authorized entrant(s), the attendant and the entry supervisor; the
permitting process and emergency rescue are covered.
Personal Protective Equipment
(PPE)
This procedure provides requirements for
personal protective equipment (PPE) that are necessary to insure the
employee's safety on the job. Additionally, it places the
responsibility on each employee for his or her own personal work
practices and safety. Addresses all the necessary equipment that should
be available either through the employee's Supervisor and/or 24 hours
per day in the facility’s safety equipment crib
Portable Ladders
This procedure covers the requirements for
safe use, pre-use inspection requirements and the need for periodic,
documented inspection of all portable ladders. Covered are the
requirements for all portable ladders to meet the requirements for Class
1 or 1A ladders (if purchased after 7/1/85) as described under ANSI
A14.1, Wood Ladders and ANSI A14.5, Reinforced Fiberglass Ladders.
Powered
Industrial Trucks and Material Handling
OSHA has established
guidelines to eliminate or minimize loss to health and property while
using, operating, or working around powered industrial trucks (PITs).
This policy covers the safety requirements relating to fire protection,
design, maintenance, and use of fork trucks, tractors, platform lift
trucks, motorized hand trucks, and other specialized industrial trucks
powered by electric motors or internal combustion engines.
Respiratory Protection
When effective
engineering controls are not feasible to control occupational diseases
from breathing contaminated air, employers are required to implement a
worksite-specific written respiratory protection program. This program
covers the OSHA mandated elements to provide for respiratory selection;
fit testing; proper usage; and training on specific respiratory hazards,
respirator donning, limitations of use and respirator maintenance.
Safety
Inspections
The Williams-Steiger
Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 requires that every employer
furnish to his or her employees employment and a place of employment
free from recognized hazards that are causing or likely to cause death
or serious physical harm to employees. This practice applies to
inspections conducted by managers, supervisor, safety committees and
individuals, which can lead to improving safety performance and safer
work practices.
Safety Policies &
Responsibilities
This program was developed by SAM and
offered through the National Safety Council and its affiliate Chapters.
The training program covers how employers and outside contractors must
work together to insure the safety of all employees. It reviews the
applicable OSHA standards and their requirements, especially on
multi-employer worksites.
This
practice, which applies to all employees, contractors, contract
personnel and visitors, covers your company’s written smoking policy, as
well as hot work, open flames and the use of spark generating power
tools that will only be used when pre-authorized in writing by the
designated responsible manager.
Substance Abuse Program
Development
This
program is designed for those who are either required to, may be
contemplating or are planning to implement a comprehensive drug &
alcohol / substance abuse program at their company. Participants will
be provided with information that will:
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Increase their awareness of the dangers of drug and alcohol abuse
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Provide a sample
policy statement, guidelines and procedures for complying with The
Drug Free Workplace Act of 1988
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Cover the requirements
of implementing an enforceable testing program.
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Cover the legal
ramifications of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1988.
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Give the signs of
alcohol and drug abuse behavior.
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How to identify and
approach the drug and/or alcohol-abusing employee.
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Provide information on
types of available support programs (like AA and EAP) to help people
recover from their substance abuse problems.
Work Permits
Work permits are required for such work
tasks as hot work, vessel and/or line entries, crane operations or
contractor work on your companies site. Work permits are used to
regulate work in a manner to preclude injury to persons, damage to
equipment, and business interruption. Work permit requirements should
apply to both employees and outside contractors. The issuing of a work
permit in no way relieves an employee or contractor of responsibility
for his or her own personal safety or the safety of other personnel.
Samples of permits, including instructions, are included within the
appendix of this practice.
Walking
- Working Surfaces
OSHA's 29 CFR 1910 Subpart D, Walking -
Working Surfaces, section establishes guidelines to protect all employees
and workers who are engaged in any work activity that could expose them to
hazards, risks or potential falls caused by shortfalls in housekeeping;
aisle and passageway encumbrances; floor holes and floor openings; open
pits, tanks, reaction vessels or ditches; and floor loadings that exceed
those approved by the designer or manufacturer.
Worker
Safety Program
By
promoting safety and health for all workers, a company will be able to
prevent accidents and injuries, save time, increase productivity,
increase profits and help to reduce the cost of worker’s compensation
premiums. By following and implementing a four (4) step program,
companies take a step toward making their workplace the safest possible
for their employees, contract employees, contractors, and visitors.
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