Category: Safety

Register right away to participate in MCAA’s 16th Annual Safety Directors’ Conference. This conference is the mechanical industry’s single best safety and health educational and networking opportunity. It will be presented in Lake Buena Vista, FL (Orlando) January 22-24, 2019.

Attendees of this conference are predominantly occupational safety and health professionals from member firms and local affiliates, safety instructors from United Association locals, MCA local executives, and employees of member firms and local affiliates whose responsibilities include occupational safety and health.

The conference has grown in popularity and attendance each year since it’s inception. MCAA anticipates record attendance for the 16th consecutive year.

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Many construction owners, general contractors, and construction managers require affected companies to establish written crane and derrick safety programs that minimize risk to their employees and ensure compliance with OSHA’s Cranes and Derricks in Construction safety standard. MCAA’s Model Crane Safety Program can be quickly and easily tailored to create your program. It makes development and implementation of such a program as easy and cost-effective as possible.

In addition to this model program, MCAA offers a safety bulletin summarizing OSHA’s Cranes and Derricks in Construction safety standard.

If you have any questions about this or any other safety resources, or about other occupational safety and health issues, please contact Pete Chaney.

MCAA’s Toolbox Safety Talks for Construction Contractors – Volume IV simplifies worker safety training with 52 talks, enough for a full year of weekly worker safety training.

Topics covered include:

• Ladders and stairways
• Vehicle safety
• Wellness
• Hazardous substances, such as hexavalent chromium and lead
• Rigging
• Electrical
• PPE
• Emergency preparedness
• And more!

Instructions and a worker safety training documentation sheet are included to further simplify the process.

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Want even more safety resources?

MCAA has you covered, with a full range of resources to help you protect your workers from injury and comply with applicable safety regulations. Here’s where to find them:

On our Direct Links to MCAA & MSCA Safety Resources page, where they’re listed by category with links.

Go there now

In the Resource Center, where you can use the blue Refine Your Search bar to pinpoint exactly what you’re looking for.

Visit the Resource Center

Have questions or need personal assistance?

Contact MCAA’s Pete Chaney.

3M Fall Protection is issuing a Stop Use and Recall Notice regarding the 3M™ DBI-SALA® 16 Ft. Talon™ Self Retracting Life Line. The company detected a small quantity of these lifelines that are defective due to an assembly error. There have been no reports of fall-related injuries associated with this. However, defective units would not arrest a fall, resulting in serious injury or death. Your immediate action is required.

MCAA’s longtime partner in safety CNA is providing access for MCAA members to several of its disaster preparedness and recovery resources. If your company is planning to prepare for natural disasters and natural disaster recovery, these resources will be very helpful to you.  The resources cover:

Preparation
• Cold Weather Prep Checklist
• Flood Prep Checklist
• Flood Prep Guide
• Hail Prep Guide
• Hurricane Prep Checklist
• Hurricane Prep Guide
• Quick Prep Guide for Your Employees
• Wildfires: Reduce the Risk to your Business

Prevention
• Disaster Recovery Checklist
• Equipment Exposures for Flood
• Water Damage Prevention Guide
• Business Continuity Planning Guide
• Video: Is your business prepared?

Other Resources
• American Red Cross
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
• Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
• Homeland Security
• Ready.gov

Disaster Preparedness and Recovery Resources

MCAA is hosting a webinar on the benefits of using electronic knowledge assessments for daily safety training. MCAA partner in safety ClickSafety, which provides OSHA 10 and 30 hour safety standards training courses for MCAA members at discount prices, will be presenting the webinar.

The knowledge assessments technology provides users with one daily question on a subject from a previous safety training session. The question is received by the users on their PCs or mobile devices. User response time is less than 60- seconds, and feedback is immediate. After a short period of time the daily questions become “smart-questions” homing in on each individual user’s weakest competencies.

The webinar will be presented September 12, 2018 at 2:30 p.m. Eastern Time. The length of the webinar will depend on the number of questions, so please allow 30 to 45 minutes for the webinar from start to finish.

Webinar Access:

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Join by phone – (844) 246-1053 – Conference ID: 813450

OSHA recently released a document showing the most frequently asked questions that it receives from employers affected by its crystalline silica standard. MCAA and other construction trade associations worked with OSHA to establish the questions and accompanying answers through the Construction Industry Safety Coalition (CISC).  The document helps clarify the agency’s positions on several provisions in the standard that are otherwise unclear to the standard’s users.   FAQs

If you have any questions about OSHA’s Crystalline Silica Standard, contact Pete Chaney at pchaney@mcaa.org or 301-990-2214.

MCAA/MSCA recently released its new supervisor safety training video, Fleet Safety for Mechanical Service and Construction Supervisors. Fleet safety is getting a lot of attention because motor vehicle fatalities, which are the leading cause of deaths in America, continue to increase each year. Most vehicle accidents are caused by unsafe driving behavior, substance abuse, insufficient driver training, or inadequate vehicle condition/maintenance.

This new video will help your supervisors understand:

• How to properly screen their drivers
• The components of effective driver training
• How to monitor driver behavior and
• How to ensure proper inspection and maintenance of the company’s fleet

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Want More Safety Resources?

MCAA has you covered, with a full range of resources to help you protect your workers from injury and comply with applicable safety regulations. Here’s where to find them:

On our Direct Links to MCAA & MSCA Safety Resources page, where they’re listed by category with links.

Go there now

In the Resource Center, where you can use the blue Refine Your Search bar to pinpoint exactly what you’re looking for.

Visit the Resource Center

Have questions or need personal assistance?

Contact MCAA’s Pete Chaney.

Be sure to save the dates for MCAA’s 16th annual Safety Directors’ Conference, which will be presented January 22-24, 2019 in Lake Buena Vista (Orlando), Florida. Witness Mercedes Ramirez Johnson describe surviving the tragic 1995 commercial airline crash that killed 160 people, including her parents, and how complacency with the airliner’s safety functions led to the crash. Some of the other featured conference speakers include immediate past Assistant Secretary of Labor (OSHA) Dr. David Michaels, communications/training guru Anthony Huey, and United Association Health, Safety and  Environmental Administrator Cheryl Ambrose.  Watch for information about registration on MCAA’s website and Safety-Talk communications network. Registration opens October 1, 2018.

MCAA’s Toolbox Safety Talks for Construction Contractors – Volume VI simplifies worker safety training with 52 talks, enough for a full year of weekly worker safety training.

Topics covered include:

• Silica
• Confined spaces
• Lesser known potential health and physical hazards, including Zika virus, marijuana, suicide, skin cancer and prescription opioid abuse
• Potentially hazardous substances/energy sources like asbestos, ammonia, sulfuric acid, LP gas and laser tools
• Potentially hazardous equipment such as cranes and derricks, disposal chutes, hoists and motor vehicles
• Protective equipment/emergency planning
• Occupational injuries and illnesses (recordkeeping)

Instructions and a worker safety training documentation sheet are included to further simplify the process.

Download

Want even more safety resources?

MCAA has you covered, with a full range of resources to help you protect your workers from injury and comply with applicable safety regulations. Here’s where to find them:

On our Direct Links to MCAA & MSCA Safety Resources page, where they’re listed by category with links.

Go there now

In the Resource Center, where you can use the blue Refine Your Search bar to pinpoint exactly what you’re looking for.

Visit the Resource Center

Have questions or need personal assistance?

Contact MCAA’s Pete Chaney.

MCAA’s Toolbox Safety Talks for Construction Contractors – Volume V simplifies worker safety training with 52 talks, enough for a full year of weekly worker safety training.

Topics covered include:

• Rigging and signaling
• Tools and equipment
• Health hazards, including dust, fumes, hexavalent chromium and zinc
• General safety topics like pinch points, worker safety responsibilities, pre-task safety planning and jobsite hazard assessment
• Emergencies and what to do should they occur

Instructions and a worker safety training documentation sheet are included to further simplify the process.

Download

Want even more safety resources?

MCAA has you covered, with a full range of resources to help you protect your workers from injury and comply with applicable safety regulations. Here’s where to find them:

On our Direct Links to MCAA & MSCA Safety Resources page, where they’re listed by category with links.

Go there now

In the Resource Center, where you can use the blue Refine Your Search bar to pinpoint exactly what you’re looking for.

Visit the Resource Center

Have questions or need personal assistance?

Contact MCAA’s Pete Chaney.