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Monitoring or clearing employee activities which involve removing any business-related information or objects from the faciHty. 

Contract employees must perform their work safely. Considering that contractors often perform very specialized and potentially hazardous tasks, such as confined space entry activities and nonroutine repair activities, their work must be controlled while they are on or near a process covered by PSM. A permit system or work authorization system for these activities is helpful for all affected employers. The use of a work authorization system keeps an employer informed of contract employee activities. Thus, the employer has better coordination and more management control over the work being performed in the process area. 

Employees also require refresher training from time to time. Monitoring of employee activities and periodic questioning of employees should be utilized to determine the ongoing level of employee awareness. 

The coal mine environment, is the object and scope of employee activities. Staff not only is limited by space, lighting, air, etc, but also moments by coal dust, roof, gas, water and fire threat. Because... 

In addition to the above parameters determirring respirator selectiorr, the following factors are also considered nature of the operation process, location of the hazardous area (especially in respect to supply of respirable air), employee activity and irrtensily of effort required to perform the work (determines the amount of air which must be supplied to lungs), physical characteristics and limitatiorrs of various respirators. 

Employee involvement —Your employees have the most to gain or lose from your safety program, so their involvement is critical to your program s success. Get your employees actively involved in — and even excited about — the safety process. Seek their input, encourage safe behaviors, and reward those who report safety problems. Their commitment to personal safety will beneflt the entire company. 

Other times, employees actively excluded themselves. Said one Big Bank employee, since] my competence and qualifications are questioned. I deal... 

The limited access zone shall be restricted to entry by employees actively engaged in constructing the wall. No other employees shall be permitted to enter the zone. 

As Geller states, in a total safety culture, employees actively care on a continuing basis for safety. To achieve a total safety culture, employees must believe they have personal control over the safety of their organization [2],... 

Leaders will be eager to coach, counsel, and inspire employees to act and work safely. The environment they create will be one where employees actively participate in the safety process and consider the process their own. 

On the other hand, the work environment needs to have positive effects on employee morale ensuring that the employee actively embraces corporate values and norms and can recognize and adhere to leadership guidelines. Furthermore, employee empowerment and participation should be encouraged. 

The device needs to meet the above definition of an energy isolating device to satisfy the standard s requirements. If an employer determines that the device does not meet the definition, then the energy supply needs to be tracked back to a disconnect switch or circuit breaker which does meet the definition. An November 10, 1999 Letter of Interpretation notes that the extent of the lockout procedures would depend on the employees activities and their exposure to the hazards. If the maintenance/repair activities will not expose employees to a certain hazard from a part of the equipment, that portion of the equipment would not need to be deenergized. The letter includes the following ... 

Employees actively participate in the comprehensive hazard review process. 

Managers must instead create a work environment that encourages personal responsibility and minimizes blame. In environments that rely on punishment, damaged relationships are often a barrier to creating an effective partnership in which management and employees actively share responsibility for safety. 

Mainly seeking safe behaviour, sometimes chances are taken Safe behaviour is a matter of course The employees actively seek out each other s experiences Always safe working methods, never breach of routines All employees work actively to obtain a workit environment without losses... 

In this case study, no JHA was used, no risk assessment completed, there were no discussions with involved employees or other employees to obtain opinions. Employee participation was minimal at best.The leadership team jumped to a conclusion and made corrective action, which may or may not have been the proper solution. If the JHA process had been effectively in place and employees actively involved, the assessment of whether a true potential problem could have been determined or whether other potential eye injury issues were present. 

When a trailer is backed into the dock, an employee activates the restraint by pushing a button on a control panel inside the building. Once the ICC bar is secured to the restraint, the trailer cannot move until loading or unloading is completed. The employee must push a button to deactivate the unit. Other units are activated when the trailer makes contact with a sensor on the restraint. If the ICC bar is missing or defective and the restraint can t lock onto the trailer, an alarm will sound to alert everyone to this condition. 

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