It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.
Alan Shepard
Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.
Aesop
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
James Thurber
Council’s ladder ban sparks £1.4million bill to change light bulbs
Daily Mirror 2/02/2011
COUNCIL bright sparks banned maintenance workers from using ladders – then got a blinding £1.4million bill for changing dud lightbulbs.
Kier Stoke repairs more than 20,000 homes and over 500 municipal buildings for Stoke-on-Trent’s city council.
But since the council banned ladders on health and safety grounds, the contractor needs to erect scaffolding for even simple, routine tasks. (more)
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin
Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze.
Horace
There is no "slippery slope" toward loss of liberties, only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.
Alan K. Simpson
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
Mark Twain
American consumers have no problem with carcinogens, but they will not purchase any product, including floor wax, that has fat in it.
Dave Barry
Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
Ogden Nash
Keep your facility safe and OSHA compliant |
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• Crews trained & monitored in OSHA compliance; |
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| Limit "Slip and Fall" Liability | |
We feature Ecolab's™ family of hard floor care chemicals, including their non-skid floor finish. Our full service program includes burnishing and refinishing resilient tile floors, certainly to enhance the appearance and extend their useful life, but more importantly because properly maintained floor finish is more effectively cleaned and is more slip-resistant than is bare tile. We rely on Ecolab's "Management of Risk Exposure" (M. O. R. E.) program, including common-sense tips on prevention and response, to provide us and our customers the benefits of Ecolab's broad experience with slip and fall accidents. You may be interested in downloading a copy of Ecolab's Slip & Fall Safety survey. Your CBN representative will be happy to go over the results with you, offering suggestions of how to reduce your exposure to liability. Should you have a slip & fall incident at your facility, Ecolab has made available a Slip & Fall accident report form, which may help to limit liability by having a clear record of the incident. You may also link to Floor Safety Technical Data; a paper from Ecolab explaining static coefficient of friction (SCOF) and how it relates to floor safety and liability. |
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| Chemical Safety | |
| Diversey products (formerly Johnson Wax Professional) | |
We feature Diversey janitorial chemicals: • Environmentally and user friendly; generally few VOCs. • Excellent training and safety material. • Sourcing chemicals from a single manufacturer avoids the chance of unexpected reactions between chemicals. • The Diversey “tech team” is available 24/7 for expert technical and safety advice. |
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| Training in Safety | |
• Chemical safety procedures • Proper chemical disposal • General job safety • OSHA guidelines • Use of protective gear • Blood-borne pathpgen procedures |
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As part of our periodic quality inspections, we check janitor closets to ensure compliance with OSHA standards on chemical labeling, cleanliness and general safety.
CBN’s HazCom program details a wide range of possible scenarios, including chemical labeling, usage, and handling rules and regs, MSDS requirements, all the way through procedures for handling blood borne pathogens. |
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| No aerosols Squirt bottles and pump sprayers use no propellant; less chemical becomes airborne. |
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| No bleach or ammonia Chlorine bleach and ammonia are each noxious of themselves; combined, they’re extremely poisonous. |
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| No scouring
powder Scouring powders are high pH detergents and ground pumice, often with bleach. Not good to breathe. |
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| Low VOCs (Volatile
Organic Compounds) Eye, nose, and throat irritation, headaches, loss of coordination, nausea, and damage to liver, kidney, and central nervous system are among the noted health effects of VOC exposure. Many cause cancer in animals, some in humans. |
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• non-skid Ecolab floor finish to limit slip/fall liability; 
Using training materials from Diversey and the 
As required by federal law, we provide you an 
That
bottle of blue liquid (maybe it's window cleaner?) without a factory label,
even that mop bucket full of last night's chemical brew, are "unlabeled
chemical containers” – just waiting for an on-the-job accident,
or for an OSHA fine to be levied.
OSHA regulations, 
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