safety walkaround training

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walkaround

• safety walkaround training
• in four modules
• Performance Surety Division
• Health, Safety, and
• Radiation Protection Division
• LA-UR-04-0257

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Safety Walkaround TrainingFour modules

• Safety Walkaround Process20 minutes
• Chemical Research Area Walkaround17 minutes
• Machine Shop Walkaround16 minutes
• Office Walkaround15 minutes

David Herbert, a Senior Fellow with the National
Safety Council, describes and demonstrates the
walkaround process in three different LANL work
environments. The safety walkaround is a key
vehicle to helping people help one another stay
safe and avoid injury.
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Safety Walkaround ProcessBehavioral Observation
Categories

• Reactions of people
• Personal protective equipment
• Body positions motions (materials)
• Tools equipment
• Orderliness
• Procedures

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Safety Walkaround ProcessElements of Behavioral
Observation Process

• Plan for effectiveness
• Observe people at work
• Reach judgments
• Interact with workers
• Document what youve seen and done

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Safety Walkaround ProcessHow does it apply to
us?

• How might the walkaround process look in our
  organization?
• ? Do we have multiple kinds of work in our area?

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Safety Walkaround ProcessHow does it apply to
us?

• How can everyone work to make this a positive,
  nonpunitive, collaborative experience to improve
  safety?
• What are our organizations strengths and
  weaknesses? What can we improve?
• How do we identify safety issues? How quickly are
  they resolved?
• When we find it, do we fix it? How soon?

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Safety Walkaround ProcessHow does it apply to
us?

• What are the different possibilities of layered
  pairs (i.e., a team leader and a first line
  worker) that would apply to our group?
• What do individual workers want to see happen in
  the walkaround process?

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Safety Walkaround ProcessHow does it apply to
us?

• How can workers use the safety walkaround process
  to their own advantage to improve their safety
  and work environment and to meet their individual
  needs?