Winter Weather HazardsWinter Weather Hazards

PreventionPrevention

►Decision MakingDecision Making►PlanningPlanning►Work PracticesWork Practices►PPEPPE►Employee Physical Conditioning and Employee Physical Conditioning and

BehaviorsBehaviors

Leadership Decision MakingLeadership Decision Making

►Operations AssessmentsOperations Assessments

What operations can be shut down ?What operations can be shut down ? What job functions can be temporarily What job functions can be temporarily

discontinued or curtailed?discontinued or curtailed? What operations or jobs need to be What operations or jobs need to be

continued?continued?

PlanningPlanning

► Decisions to continue operations should Decisions to continue operations should have a plan for how to do so safely.have a plan for how to do so safely.

► Safe access and clean up.Safe access and clean up.► How and where to begin.How and where to begin.► Priority areas.Priority areas.► What equipment is needed.What equipment is needed.► Who is involved?Who is involved?► What materials and methods. What materials and methods. ► Clean up procedures should consider Clean up procedures should consider

drainage to reduce “black ice” and drainage to reduce “black ice” and refreezing. refreezing.

Work PracticesWork Practices

►What is required of our people?What is required of our people?►What do we expect, and what do we What do we expect, and what do we

allow?allow?►Employee Selection and Job Employee Selection and Job

assignment?assignment?

Wear shoes with slip-resistant soles or traction devices when walking or working on surfaces that are wet, greasy, icy, or other-wise slick (e.g., in kitchen areas, performing custodial work).

No footwear has anti-slip properties for every condition so make sure that the proper type of footwear is selected for the work conditions and for the type of flooring or walking/working surface.

Steel-toed safety boots with oil-resistant soles

Slip-resistant traction devices for snow and ice that fit over the soles

PPE Wearing Proper Shoes

Walking TechniquesWalking Techniques

► Walk like a “Penguin”.Walk like a “Penguin”.► Point your feet out.Point your feet out.► Keep your head up.Keep your head up.► Walk in short choppy steps, or shuffle your steps.Walk in short choppy steps, or shuffle your steps.► Do not carry any materials across untreated Do not carry any materials across untreated

surfaces.surfaces.► Do not walk with your hands in your pocket, but Do not walk with your hands in your pocket, but

extend your arms to the side for additional balance.extend your arms to the side for additional balance.► Use handrails or structures where available.Use handrails or structures where available.► If falling, try to avoid landing on your knees, wrists, If falling, try to avoid landing on your knees, wrists,

or spine, relax muscles and try to fall on your side. or spine, relax muscles and try to fall on your side.

• Clean footwear and soles of mud, snow, ice, grease, or any other contamination.

• Make sure running board, tread, step, foothold, and platform of equipment are also clean and dry of any contamination.

• Always face equipment when mounting and dismounting.

• Have a good hand-hold before stepping up.

• Place your foot on the step or foothold just in front of your heel, under the arch.

Clean shoes Clean foothold and step Proper foot placement on

step and foothold

Mounting/Dismounting Equipment Safely

• Maintain three-point contact at all times while getting onto/off of the equipment until reaching ground, cab, or stable platform.

Courtesy of Construction Safety Association of Ontario

• Do not jump off when dismounting or getting off the bed of a truck or other part of the equipment. Step down carefully while facing equipment (reverse order of the pictures above).

Three-point contact: – one hand, two feet– two hands, one foot

Mounting/Dismounting Equipment Safely

Employees                

Equipped with non-skid shoes?                

Observed carrying, rushing, improper footwear, etc.?                

                 

Steps                

Handrails exisit at steps                

Handrials in good condition                

Steps in good condition                

                 

Parking lot                

Changes in elevation highlighted                

Curbs in good shape and painted                

Holes/cracks                

Lighting adequate                

                 

Sidewalks                

Changes in elevation highlighted                

Non-skid / highlighted at handicap ramps                

Sidewalks in good condition                

                 

Workplace ChecklistWorkplace Checklist

Misc.                

All areas properly lighted                

Freeze/thaw areas identified and safeguarded                

Ice melt / sand available at all entrances                

Landscape materials removed from sidewalks/drives                

Loading dock free of snow and ice                

Shovel available at each entrance                

Signs posted encouraging ee's to use sand/salt                

Snow fences installed to reduce drifting snow                

Snow/ice management log                

Unnecessary entrances/walkways closed off?                

                 

Even the best are at Even the best are at risk !risk !

Take Two !Take Two !