DOSH Inspections: Are you prepared?

WA State Grape Society Annual Meeting Jeff Lutz, Safety Director, WA Farm Bureau

Safety is no accident!

Have a Plan

DOSH Contact and Opening Conference

Assigned Staff Written documents

Common Violations • Citations: up to $7000 per violation • Written Programs – Documentation

– Training • Physical hazards • Health hazards

Accident Prevention Program (APP)

• Safety Plan • Outlined in writing • Tailored to the dairy operations • New employee safety orientation • Monthly safety meetings, documented • Walk-around safety inspections

– Monthly – Employee representative – “Effective in practice”

APP: New Employee Orientation

• Review outline of APP Safety procedures – general & specific - On-the-job review, hands-on

Report hazards Responsibilities - Management, Supervisor, Worker

Accident reporting and first aid procedures What to do in an emergency

• Document – Name, Date, Sign – Checklist

• Disciplinary policy?

Safety Information Board

Chemical Hazard Communication (HAZCOM) Program

• Tells employees about: – Hazardous chemicals

on the job – How employees will be

protected – SDS – Employee Training – PPE

Missing Labels – No Info

Chemical Handling

• Goggles • Gloves – Nitrile • Emergency Eyewash – Required when

handling caustic/corrosive

Other Programs/Procedures • Lock-out/Tag-out – Maintenance of equipment • Confined Space – Do employees enter any? • Respiratory Protection

– Formaldehyde, pesticides, dust – Required or Voluntary?

• Training: – Machinery – tractors, ATV, loaders, forklift,

harvester, feed truck – Animal handling – Heat Stress

Eye Hazards • Welding, grinding, cutting • Dust • Pneumatic tools • Pressure washer

Ladder Safety • Proper type

– Type I & I-A, II, III (prohibited) • Train before starting work

– Use, care, and inspection – Hands-on

• Tag unsafe ladders

Ladder Safety

First Aid & Fire Extinguisher • 1st Aid Training

– 1 person trained and available – Other training or knowledge

• 1st Aid Kit – Supplies meet needs for basic

first aid at worksite • Fire Extinguisher

– Every 75-feet (each building) – Fueling areas, dry barn, hay

storage – Machinery

Tractors • ROPS and seatbelt

– When available for tractor – When no overhead clearance issues

• Master shield (over PTO stub) • PTO drive shaft guards • Slow Moving Vehicle Triangle

– When taken on public roads • Lights

– When operated on public road in dark

Machine Hazards • Guard moving parts

– Sprockets and chains – Belts and pulleys – Shafts and couplers – Cutting and sanding – Compacting and crushing – Automatic machinery

Electrical

Electrical

Electrical

Housekeeping

Material Handling & Storage

Railings/Handrails

• Provide railings on all walkways, platforms and open sided floors more than 4 feet high.

• Top rail should be 42 inches high plus or minus 3 inches with mid-rail.

• Stairways with 4 or more risers have mounted railing 30-34 inches high.

Railings/Handrails

Signs/Tags

Resources

• Farm Bureau Retro/Safety – www.wsfb.com/retro-safety

• Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) – Consultation – www.lni.wa.gov/safety