Z Project 2004 Results

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Z Project 2004 Results
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Why the Z Project?

• We needed to do more
• Eliminate hazards
• Improve EHS Programs
• OSHA share information
• Focus on positive measurements
• Recognize best practices and the companies that
  are doing them.

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What is the Z Project?

• Working relationship with OSHA in Peoria
• Participate by
• Measuring the number of hazards controlled
• Determine the type of control implemented
• Share statistics and examples with Brian

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What are hazard controls?

• Guards, ventilation, 2 person lift, additional
  type of personal protective equipment
• Does not include
• Housekeeping cleaning up spill
• Maintenance fixing a broken part

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Corrective Action Value
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Engineering control 3 pts

• Elimination
• Redesign
• Safeguard

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Work practice control 2 pts
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Personal Protective Equipment 1 pt
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• How many hazards did you eliminate last year?

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Answers

• 14
• 112
• 4
• 5

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Corrective Action Quotient

• The sum of all corrective action values
• Divided by
• The total number of hazard controls

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Measurements

• The admitted number of hazards eliminated or
  controlled.
• 516
• Average value of controls
• 2.6

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Controls
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My favorite from 2 years ago

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Amputation prevention
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Saw stop

• Continuously monitors for accidental contact with
  the saw's blade
• Detects change in the electrical signal and
  immediately forces a brake into the teeth of the
  blade.
• Stops in approximately 5 milliseconds

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Warning sign
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Circuit breaker lockout

• System is permanently installed into an
  electrical panel
• Lockout systems allows the panel door to be shut.
  
• Optional Panel Spacing Gasket enables panel doors
  with tight clearances to be closed during
  lockout.
• 120-277 Volt Panels and SQ D NQO Series Panels

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Remote controlled flaggers

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A cast iron lid presented a lifting hazard

• Opened several times a year
• Employees exposed to back injuries.
• These lids weight 80 to 125 pounds

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They replaced several of the lids with aluminum
lids weighing less than 10 pounds
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Man hole lift device

• The employees no longer have to strain to open
  these lids.
• In case the lids accidentally close, the risk of
  crushing a limb has been eliminated.

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Recognition
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Congratulations

• Urbana-Champaign Sanitary District
• Submission by Bruce Butler

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Silica

• We used to add sand to our sand filters a couple
  of times a year, several thousand pounds at a
  time.
• The sand was blown in off a bulk truck, creating
  a very dusty environment.

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Really dusty
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• We now order the sand in 1 ton super sacks,
  slurry the sand into a liquid, then pump the
  slurry into the sand filters.

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We no longer have to wear respirators while
adding sand.

• The bulk truck in the first picture was actually
  the first generation improvement.
• Previously the sand was delivered in 100-pound
  bags and had to be manhandled.
• That plus the dust.

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Congratulations

• Williams Brothers Construction Inc.
• Submission by Allen Durr

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Providing Fall Protection for Decking Operations

• QUESTIONS
• How do you provide fall protection for these
  employees?
• Where would they tie off?
• Can we tie off to the scaffolding?

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Providing Fall Protection for Decking Operations

• When we first ran into this issue we began to
  research ideas and could not come up with a
  solution.
• We also researched the OSHA standard for
  compliance issues.
• We needed a horizontal life line (HLL) that would
  not get in the way of the workers and create a
  tripping hazard.

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Providing Fall Protection for Decking Operations

• The horizontal life line needs to be able to give
  the employees the freedom to move on the deck.
• The horizontal life line needs to be employee
  friendly and easy to erect and use.

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SOLUTION

• The Mobil Skywalk system is our answer for the
  horizontal life line to provide fall protection.
• Mobile Skywalk is manufactured by SafeWaze.

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Cost for Williams Brothers Construction to
implement this program was 6,353.60 dollars

• THE COST TO IMPLEMENT THIS PROGRAM CAN NOT
  COMPARE TO THE COST OF A TRADES LIFE AND THE
  EFFECTS IT HAS ON HIS/HER FAMILY!!!

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Congratulations

• Midwest Kidney Centers
• Submission by Sheila Wambold

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Safety committee and monthly brainstorming

• In early 2003, a Safety Committee was formed that
  consists of clinical staff, educators,
  administrative staff, and management. They meet
  on a monthly basis to brainstorm.

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Safety Audits

• Unannounced safety audits were performed at each
  of the outpatient hemodialysis facilities
• Hazards or potential problems were identified and
  corrected.
• Electrical problems identified
• Ergonomic issues were addressed
• Exits and walkways were reviewed and, if
  obstructed, they were corrected
• Observed PPE to see if used correctly
• These audits helped associates to become more
  aware of their work environment and that we were
  watching!

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We then introduced the SWAT Team

• SWAT Stop
• Workplace
• Accidents
• Together
• A program that rewards an associate for
• reporting a safety hazard or for simply
• making a suggestion on an improvement for a
• safer workplace

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Congratulations

• AFSI
• Submission by Dick Jesse

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J-Shaped Socket Wrench

• Top - worker is trying to hold and align a nut so
  that a machine screw can be dropped through a
  wear-strip mounting hole and then be screwed into
  the nut.
• Bottom - J-Shaped Socket Wrench with socket
  attached. Fabricated from a piece of 3/8 square
  stock

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Doug Reynolds Tracy Foster

• A nut is placed into the socket.
• The socket end of the wrench is then placed down
  through the slot between the nylon wear strips,
  turned so the nut is aligned with the hole and
  the screw inserted and tightened.

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