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Enhancing Floor Safety and Fall Prevention Strategies

Explore controls, floor selection, ladder safety, fall arrest systems, shoe criteria, and fraud awareness for a safe workplace environment.

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Enhancing Floor Safety and Fall Prevention Strategies

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  1. Module 4 Controlling Slips, Trips and Falls

  2. Objectives After completing this module, you will be able to: • Identify the hierarchy of controls as it relates to slips, trips and falls. • Identify the various floor types and their corresponding characteristics. • Identify three actions you can take to make your existing floors less slippery.

  3. Objectives—continued • Implement controls that make employees safe when they are working at heights. • Determine how to select and recommend an appropriate work shoe. • Recognize the role that fraud plays in floor safety.

  4. Slip, Trip and Fall Prevention Recognize Evaluate Control

  5. Engineering Controls Controls that are engineered into the job—most important type of control

  6. Types of Engineering Controls • Redesign of equipment • Substitution of a material, equipment or process • Change of process to minimize slips, trips and falls • Use of barriers to isolate a hazard • Use of barriers to isolate a person

  7. Administrative Controls Controls that change the way people do their jobs—only effective when people do what they are supposed to do

  8. Types of Administrative Controls • Education and training • Signage • Adjusting work schedules or rotating assignments to reduce exposure • Maintenance • Good housekeeping • Contracting specialized services

  9. Personal Protective Equipment Controls that protect people from the hazard rather than eliminate the hazard

  10. Types of PPE • Slip-resistant shoes • Fall arrest equipment • Hard hats • Goggles • Nets • Roll bars • Safety platforms

  11. Floor Selection Criteria • Slip resistance • Ease of cleaning • Ease of maintenance • Durability • Absorption • Frost Resistance

  12. Making Floors Slip Resistant Apply slip-resistant floor treatments. Use floor mats. Apply floor skid strips to steps and stair nosings.

  13. Key Controls for Ladder Safety Require ladder inspections before each use. Use only ladders in good condition and appropriate for the job. Make proper ladder use a performance requirement. Train employees on proper ladder use.

  14. The anchorage The connectors The rescue plan Fall Arrest Systems Four Components The full body harness

  15. Maximum Arresting Force The maximum arresting force allowed when a person is using a full body harness is 1,800 pounds.

  16. Maximum Fall Distance Maximum free fall distance = 6 feet + Deceleration distance = 3.5 feet + Safety factor = 2 feet 11.5 Feet

  17. The Right Shoe

  18. What’s in a Shoe? Tread everywhere Pattern in tread Deep grooves Nitrile rubber Tread not worn Flat heel Grooves widely-spaced

  19. Hard Fraud A person plans a faked injury for the sole purpose of making money.

  20. Soft Fraud A person slips, trips or falls, but exaggerates the injury to make money. Also called “opportunity fraud”

  21. Action Plan

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