Guarantee DryWall

P.O.Box 17744, Encino, CA 91416 Tel.: (818) 676-0636 fax.: (818) 887-6171 beeper: (818) 375-6732

INJURY & ILLNESS PREVENTION FOR HIGH HAZRD EMPLOYERS RESPONSIBILITY
The Injury and Illness Prevention Program (IIP Program) administrator: AMOS COHEN Program Administrator has the authority and responsibility for implementing the provisions of this program for Guarantee DryWall
All managers and supervisors are responsible for implementing and maintaining the IIP Program in their work areas and for answering worker questions about the IIP Program. A copy of this IIP Program is available from each manager and supervisor.

COMPLIANCE
Management is responsible for ensuring that all safety and health policies and procedures are clearly communicated and understood by all employees. Managers and supervisors are expected to enforce the rules fairly and uniformly.
All employees are responsible for using safe work practices, for following all directives, policies and procedures, and for assisting in maintaining a safe work environment.
Guarantee DryWall ensurs that all workers comply with the rules and maintain a safe work environment including:

• Informing workers of the provisions of our IIP Program;
• Evaluating the safety performance of all workers;
• Recognizing employees who perform safe and healthful work practices;
• Providing training to workers whose safety performance is deficient;
• Disciplining workers for failure to comply with safe and healthful work practices;

COMMUNICATION
Guarantee DryWall recognize that open, two-way communication between management and staff on health and safety issues is essential to an injury-free, productive workplace. The following system of communication is designed to facilitate a continuous flow of safety and health information between management and staff in a form that is readily understandable and consists of the following checked items:

• New worker orientation including a discussion of safety and health policies and procedures.
• Review of our IIP Program.
• Workplace safety and health training programs.
• Regularly scheduled safety meetings.
• Effective communication of safety and health concerns between workers and supervisors, including translation where appropriate.
• Posted or distributed safety information.
• A system for workers to anonymously inform management about workplace hazards.

HAZARD ASSESSMENT
Periodic inspections to identify and evaluate workplace hazards are performed by the following competent observer(s) in the following areas of our workplace: Competent Observer Area

Periodic inspections are performed:

• When new substances, processes, procedures or equipment which present potential new hazards are introduced into our workplace;
• When new, previously unidentified hazards are recognized;
• When occupational injuries and illnesses occur;
• When we hire and/or reassign permanent or intermittent workers to processes, operations, or tasks for which a hazard evaluation has not been previously conducted; and
• Whenever workplace conditions warrant an inspection. Periodic inspections consist of identification and evaluation of workplace hazards utilizing applicable sections of the attached Hazard Assessment Checklist and any other effective methods to identify and evaluate workplace hazards.

ACCIDENT/EXPOSURE INVESTIGATIONS
Procedures for investigating workplace accidents and hazardous substance exposures include:

• Visiting the accident scene as soon as possible;
• Interviewing injured workers and witnesses;
• Determining the cause of the accident/exposure;
• Taking corrective action to prevent the accident/exposure from reoccurring; and
• Recording the findings and corrective actions taken.

TRAINING AND INSTRUCTION All workers, including managers and supervisors, have been given training and instruction on general and job-specific safety and health practices. Training and instruction are provided as follows:

• When the IIP Program is first established;
• To all new workers, except for construction workers who are provided training through a Cal/OSHA approved construction industry occupational safety and health training program;
• To all workers given new job assignments for which training has not previously provided;
• Whenever new substances, processes, procedures or equipment are introduced to the workplace and represent a new hazard;
• To supervisors to familiarize them with the safety and health hazards to which workers under their immediate direction and control may be exposed; and
• To all workers with respect to hazards specific to each employee's job assignment. Workplace safety and health practices for all industries include, but are not limited to, the following:
• Explanation of the employer's IIP Program, emergency action plan and fire prevention plan, and measures for reporting any unsafe conditions, work practices, injuries and when additional instruction is needed.
• Use of appropriate clothing, including gloves, footwear, and personal protective equipment.
• Information about chemical hazards to which employees could be exposed and other hazard communication program information.
• Availability of toilet, hand-washing and drinking water facilities.
• Provisions for medical services and first aid including emergency procedures. In addition, Guarantee DryWall provide specific instructions to all workers regarding hazards unique to their job assignment, to the extent that such information was not already covered in other training.

HAZARD ASSESSMENT CHECKLIST Guarantee DryWall

GENERAL WORK ENVIRONMENT

• All worksites has to be clean and orderly.
• All work surfaces has to kept dry and are are slip-resistant.
• All spilled materials or liquids has to be cleaned up immediately.
• Combustible scrap, debris and waste has to be stored safely and removed from the worksite promptly.
• All paint spray booths, dip tanks and the like has to be cleaned regularly.
• Toilets and washing facilities has to be provided.
• All toilets and washing facilities has to be clean and sanitary.
• All work areas has to be adequately illuminated.
• All pits and floor openings has to be covered or otherwise guarded.

PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT & CLOTHING

• Protective goggles or face shields has to be worn where there is any danger of flying particles or corrosive materials.
• Approved safety glasses required to be worn at all times in areas where there is a risk of eye injuries such as punctures, abrasions, contusions or burns.
• All employees who need corrective lenses (glasses or contacts lenses) in working environments with harmful exposures, required to wear only approved safety glasses, protective goggles.
• Hard hats has to be worn where danger of falling objects exists.
• Appropriate foot protection required where there is the risk of foot injuries from hot, corrosive, poisonous substances, falling objects, crushing or penetrating actions.
• All protective equipment has to be maintained in a sanitary condition and ready for use.
• Lunches has to be in areas where there is no exposure to toxic materials or other health hazards.

PORTABLE LADDERS

• All ladders has to be maintained in good condition, joints between steps and side rails tight, all hardware and fittings securely attached, and moveable parts operating freely without binding or undue play.
  
• Non-slip safety feet provided on each ladder.
• Non-slip safety feet provided on each metal or rung ladder.
• It prohibited to place a ladder in front of doors opening toward the ladder except when the door is blocked open, locked or guarded.
• It prohibited to place ladders on boxes, barrels, or other unstable bases to obtain additional height.
• All employees instructed to face the ladder when ascending or descending.
• All employees prohibited from using ladders that are broken, missing steps, rungs, or cleats, broken side rails or other faulty equipment.
• All employees instructed not to use the top 2 steps of ordinary stepladders as a step.
• All portable ladders legibly marked with signs reading "CAUTION".
• All employees prohibited from using ladders as guys, braces, skids, gin poles, or for other than their intended purposes.
• All employees instructed to only adjust extension ladders while standing at a base (not while standing on the ladder or from a position above the ladder).
• All metal ladders has to be inspected for damage.

HAND TOOLS & EQUIPMENT

• All tools and equipment (both, company and employee-owned) has to be used by employees at their workplace in good condition.
• All hand tools such as chisels, punches, which develop mushroomed heads during use, reconditioned and replaced as necessary.
• All broken or fractured handles on hammers, axes and similar equipmenthas to be replaced promptly.
• Worn or bent wrenches has to be replaced regularly.
• All employees made aware of the hazards caused by faulty or improperly used hand tools.
• Appropriate safety glasses, face shields, and similar equipment has to be used while using hand tools or equipment that might produce flying materials or be subject to breakage.
• Tool handles has to be wedged tightly in the head of all tools.
• All tool cutting edges has to be kept sharp so the tool will move smoothly.
• All tools has to be stored in dry, secure location where they won't be tampered with.
  
  PORTABLE (POWER OPERATED) TOOLS & EQUIPMENT
  
• All grinders, saws, and similar equipment has to be provided with appropriate safety guards.
• All power tools has to be used with the correct shield, guard or attachment recommended by the manufacturer.
• All portable circular saws has to be equipped with guards above and below the base shoe.
• All rotating or moving parts of equipment has to be guarded to prevent physical contact.
• All cord-connected, electrically operated tools and equipment has to be effectively grounded of the approved double insulated type.
• Ground-fault circuit interruptershas to be provided on all temporary electrical 15 and 20 ampere circuits, used during periods of construction.

POWDER ACTUATED TOOLS

• All employees who operate powder-actuated tools has to be trained in their use and carry a valid operator's card.
• Powder-actuated tools has to be used with written approval of the Division of Occupational Safety and Health.
• Each powder-actuated tool has to be stored in its own locked container when not being used.
• A sign at least 7" by 10" with bold type reading "POWDER-ACTUATED TOOL IN USE" posted when the tool is being used.
• Powder-actuated tools has to be inspected for obstructions or defects each day before use.
• Powder-actuated tools operators has to have and use appropriate personal protective equipment such as hard hats, safety goggles, safety shoes and ear protectors.

MATERIAL HANDLING

• All motorized vehicles and mechanized equipment has to be inspected daily or prior to use.
• Vehicles has to be shut off and brakes set prior to loading or unloading.
• All vehicles has to be equipped with sideboards of sufficient height to prevent the materials being handled from falling off.
• All hooks with safety latches or other arrangements has to be used when hoisting materials so that slings or load attachments won't accidentally slip off the hoist hooks.
• Material Safety Data Sheets always available to employees handling hazardous substances.

TRANSPORTING EMPLOYEES & MATERIALS

• Employees who operate vehicles on public thoroughfares have valid operator's licenses.
• When seven or more employees are regularly transported in a van, bus or truck, the operator's license appropriate for the class of vehicle has to be driven.
• All vehicles used to transport employees,has to be equipped with lamps, brakes, horns, mirrors, windshields and turn signals in good repair.
• When cutting tools with sharp edges are carried in passenger compartments of employee transport vehicles, they has to be placed in closed boxes or containers which are secured in place.
• All employees are prohibited from riding on top of any load, which can shift, topple, or otherwise become unstable.

|| Safety Instruction |  Samples |  Photo Gallery |  About Us |  Home |  Back to the top ||

Design by DNA Systems©