Now let's look at requirements for examining the workplace;
the place where personnel perform their job duties and
travel.
Thorough and complete workplace examinations
are required for dredging operations.
Workplace examinations are an invaluable, vital tool to ensure
the safety of personnel who work on or around dredges.
An effective safety program involves effective workplace
examinations.
This will help the operator to identify hazardous conditions
and eliminate, mitigate, or correct hazardous conditions,
in a timely manner.
Workplace examinations are conducted where personnel work
and travel, including areas where work is performed on an
infrequent basis, such as areas accessed primarily during
periods of maintenance or cleanup.
All such working places must be examined by a competent person.
<<Tony Schiavi>> Daily workplace exam and hazard
recognition is a key component of our success.
Each shift is required to do a workplace exam and if
hazards are found, they are required to either correct
them immediately and if that's not possible they will danger
hazard off the area and convey that to management in written
form and verbal per shift change.
So that's a key component to maintaining safety on a
day to day basis.. is our workplace exams.
<<Albert Dudzik>> The workplace examination of
course is the first thing that the operator does as they arrive
on site.
Basically performing a general overview of the dredge
as they are coming over on the workboat, looking at the
platform, looking for anything unusual.
Just from an overall distance.
Once upon the boat, and the launch is secured.
The operator looks and visually inspects his walkways, pathways.
Then begins his overview of the whole area.
Enters into his working compartments and areas.
Makes sure that everything is in place.
That there is nothing out of place, nothing unusual.
Just is there anything that looks different?
Changed? Any Smells? Any fluids?
Anything that might alert them that a condition has changed
since the last time he's entered that work area.
<<Rick Goessling>> So as you are looking at the
dredge you're going to take a look at the pontoons and make
sure that it's sitting level, in the water.
If it's listing to one side or the other, or leaning.
You need to find out why.
It could just be that you left some material in the hopper
from the night before.
So you are going to take all that into consideration,
but you mainly want to make sure that none of the pontoons have
taken on water.
Ok so if you were to notice say like maybe you had a windstorm
the night before and you had some wind damage,
maybe some the wires got cut.
Or wires got frayed.
You would obviously want to shut the dredge
down immediately.
Kill the power to it.
And then contact the adequate.. the correct contractors to come
out and do the repairs.
<<Scott Bacon>> Our policy here is that we find
anything, which is an excellent policy, if we find anything...
we want to address that right then and there.
Again with us, safety is first.
First and foremost.
So we address it immediately and then we proceed
to run the operation.