Weekly Toolbox Talk: Floor Openings
Safely covering a floor opening with a piece of plywood requires more than just laying down the material over the hole, or even nailing it down.
Total on the job safety means a total job of eliminating a hazard. Half a job or inadequate or incomplete jobs of covering hole in the floor. Why did it happen?
A Sustainable Workforce Starts With You Combining Passive and Active Learning to Create Competency: C3.Is.How
A Sustainable Workforce Starts With Combining Passive and Active Learning to Create Competency: C3.Is.How
The goal of all craft training is to build new knowledge, skills and abilities in our craft workforce. The best way to ensure this happens is to build programs that include both passive and active forms of learning activities. Passive learning occurs during lectures, videos, readings, and demonstrations. The learner is engaged with the content but only in a passive manner through observation. Passive instruction is a good way to deliver knowledge but doesn’t work on building skill or ability. Active learning, designed to build skill and competency, includes learning activities like group discussions, practice by doing, immediate use in real world simulation or application, and through the teaching of others.
Where is the “Rational Middle” Anyway?
Where is the “Rational Middle” Anyway?
The following article was authored by Jim Kollaer and originally published on Construction Citizen.
Weekly Toolbox Talk: Sprains and Strains
Weekly Toolbox Talk: Sprains and Strains
Sprains and strains continue to be one of the highest types of injuries within our company. By following a few simple rules, many of these injuries can be avoided or their severity greatly reduced. Medical evidence has shown that performing warm-up exercises before work and after breaks reduces strain and sprain type injuries.
These rules are:
Weekly Toolbox Talk: Utility Knife Safety
Weekly Toolbox Talk: Utility Knife Safety
There’s one hand tool that demands your respect over many others in the workplace, a tool that can cut you to the bone in an instant . . . the utility knife. Many workers use utility knives to cut drywall, ceiling tile, strapping, puncture shrinkwrap and open packaging. But one wrong move and these blades can do serious harm.
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