Dear Team Leader,

 

The CleanAir Board of Directors has ask me to continually encourage all the CleanAir leaders to help make safety our 1 priority everyday, all the time, no exceptions. This guidance documentis in support of this request and our goal of zero accidents.

 

As you know from attending the Presidents indoctrination class, all new employees learn that Safety is our number 1 priority. 

 

Some of the things I would like to suggest are:

 

Start each new CleanAir Europe meeting or project with a safety topic.  Try to make these topics current, interesting and relevant.

 

Some suggested topics for meeting agenda are:

·      Report on progess toward our CleanAir goal for OSHA VPP status by Josh Jabben.

 

·      Report from your team safety resource and other safety specialists. (you could have a safety specialists for each main area of concern,  ie cylinders, climbing, lifting etc)

 

·      Recent CleanAir safety lessons learned the hard way.  The Safety team may have an online list of reportable accidents and near misses.

 

·      Safety issues our industry has had.  The SES Safety CD or STA web page may be helpful?  CleanAir Media produces the SES safety CD for SES, ( the SES Version 2 CD is available free from SES, it has been copied to the Greenleaf server and Larry Goldens has extra copies of the First version).

 

·      How to handle incidents.

 

·      Continuous Improvement (CI) of safety documentation

 

·      Near misses.

 

·      CleanAir plan for safety certifications.

 

·      Backing up CleanAir vehicles.

 

·      Use of cell phones in vehicles.

 

·      PSE

 

·       Gas cylinders

 

·      Stack Gas

 

·      Ladders and Platforms.

 

Get pictures from jobs is clients agree to look for safer ways to work.

 

Personally inspect driver logs and PSE.

 

Look at safety equipment to see if it is being used or abused.

 

Look at the loading of vehicles.  How would we do if we had an accident. Is there a better way of shipping pressurized cylinders.  FedEx places them at the rear of the vehicle laying down crosswise. Less likely to spear the driver in a head on.

 

 

I would like to get some feedback on this from time to time. You can send me the team meeting agenda and minutes so I can see how it is going.

 

Thanks Bill,