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Winter Weather HazardsWinter Weather Hazards
PreventionPrevention
►Decision MakingDecision Making►PlanningPlanning►Work PracticesWork Practices►PPEPPE►Employee Physical Conditioning and Employee Physical Conditioning and
BehaviorsBehaviors
Leadership Decision MakingLeadership Decision Making
►Operations AssessmentsOperations Assessments
What operations can be shut down ?What operations can be shut down ? What job functions can be temporarily What job functions can be temporarily
discontinued or curtailed?discontinued or curtailed? What operations or jobs need to be What operations or jobs need to be
continued?continued?
PlanningPlanning
► Decisions to continue operations should Decisions to continue operations should have a plan for how to do so safely.have a plan for how to do so safely.
► Safe access and clean up.Safe access and clean up.► How and where to begin.How and where to begin.► Priority areas.Priority areas.► What equipment is needed.What equipment is needed.► Who is involved?Who is involved?► What materials and methods. What materials and methods. ► Clean up procedures should consider Clean up procedures should consider
drainage to reduce “black ice” and drainage to reduce “black ice” and refreezing. refreezing.
Work PracticesWork Practices
►What is required of our people?What is required of our people?►What do we expect, and what do we What do we expect, and what do we
allow?allow?►Employee Selection and Job Employee Selection and Job
assignment?assignment?
Wear shoes with slip-resistant soles or traction devices when walking or working on surfaces that are wet, greasy, icy, or other-wise slick (e.g., in kitchen areas, performing custodial work).
No footwear has anti-slip properties for every condition so make sure that the proper type of footwear is selected for the work conditions and for the type of flooring or walking/working surface.
Steel-toed safety boots with oil-resistant soles
Slip-resistant traction devices for snow and ice that fit over the soles
PPE Wearing Proper Shoes
Walking TechniquesWalking Techniques
► Walk like a “Penguin”.Walk like a “Penguin”.► Point your feet out.Point your feet out.► Keep your head up.Keep your head up.► Walk in short choppy steps, or shuffle your steps.Walk in short choppy steps, or shuffle your steps.► Do not carry any materials across untreated Do not carry any materials across untreated
surfaces.surfaces.► Do not walk with your hands in your pocket, but Do not walk with your hands in your pocket, but
extend your arms to the side for additional balance.extend your arms to the side for additional balance.► Use handrails or structures where available.Use handrails or structures where available.► If falling, try to avoid landing on your knees, wrists, If falling, try to avoid landing on your knees, wrists,
or spine, relax muscles and try to fall on your side. or spine, relax muscles and try to fall on your side.
• Clean footwear and soles of mud, snow, ice, grease, or any other contamination.
• Make sure running board, tread, step, foothold, and platform of equipment are also clean and dry of any contamination.
• Always face equipment when mounting and dismounting.
• Have a good hand-hold before stepping up.
• Place your foot on the step or foothold just in front of your heel, under the arch.
Clean shoes Clean foothold and step Proper foot placement on
step and foothold
Mounting/Dismounting Equipment Safely
• Maintain three-point contact at all times while getting onto/off of the equipment until reaching ground, cab, or stable platform.
Courtesy of Construction Safety Association of Ontario
• Do not jump off when dismounting or getting off the bed of a truck or other part of the equipment. Step down carefully while facing equipment (reverse order of the pictures above).
Three-point contact: – one hand, two feet– two hands, one foot
Mounting/Dismounting Equipment Safely
Employees
Equipped with non-skid shoes?
Observed carrying, rushing, improper footwear, etc.?
Steps
Handrails exisit at steps
Handrials in good condition
Steps in good condition
Parking lot
Changes in elevation highlighted
Curbs in good shape and painted
Holes/cracks
Lighting adequate
Sidewalks
Changes in elevation highlighted
Non-skid / highlighted at handicap ramps
Sidewalks in good condition
Workplace ChecklistWorkplace Checklist
Misc.
All areas properly lighted
Freeze/thaw areas identified and safeguarded
Ice melt / sand available at all entrances
Landscape materials removed from sidewalks/drives
Loading dock free of snow and ice
Shovel available at each entrance
Signs posted encouraging ee's to use sand/salt
Snow fences installed to reduce drifting snow
Snow/ice management log
Unnecessary entrances/walkways closed off?
Even the best are at Even the best are at risk !risk !
Take Two !Take Two !