Employee Safety Orientation

OUTLINE

What is the Safety Orientation and Checklist?

Reporting Accidents

Emergency Equipment & Response Procedures

Your Safety Committee

Personal Work Habits

Potential Hazards on the Job

The Safety Orientation

WSU Vancouver conducts a Safety Orientation for new hires and on a periodic basis for all employees

Supervisors are responsible for administering the safety orientation

The Safety Orientation

The orientation allows a chance to discuss:

Emergency procedures and evacuation routes

Emergency equipment locations

Workplace hazards and safe work procedures

New equipment, procedures, and chemicals

Workplace changes

Employee safety concerns

The Safety Orientation

Given to inform new employees of workplace hazards and safe work practices

Statistics show new employees (being unfamiliar with

the workplace) are at higher risk for accidents and injuries, and that a safety orientation helps reduces this risk

An important step in promoting and ensuring a safe work ethic with new employees

Safety orientations are required by law

Safety Orientation Checklist

The Safety Orientation Checklist is designed to

help supervisors administer a safety orientation:

The list delineates important subjects all on campus should be aware of to have a safe workplace

Helps meet the regulatory requirement for documentation of the safety orientation

LIST

Reporting Accidents

Call 911, if an emergency

Report accidents to Supervisor (within 24 hours)

Report serious injuries or death to Vice Chancellor of Finance and Operations Vice Chancellor, Lynn Valenter, notifies Pullman

Near misses email safety committee at: closecalls@vancouver.wsu.edu

Reporting Accidents The Necessary Paperwork

FILL OUT: Incident Report Form S25-20-8

Forms available from Human Resources Department

Injured person generates the report and

supervisor signs

Send report to EH&S Coordinator

Form S25-20-8 is also used for property

damage and workplace violence reporting

Reporting Accidents The Necessary Paperwork

Complete a Supervisors Report form, S25.25.4, for accidents with lost time or medical treatment

Send students and visitors to Public Safety Office to report accidents and fill out paperwork

Why Report an Accident?

So corrective action can be taken to help

prevent further injuries and accidents

So employee benefits can be processed

To provide the University statistics to budget

dollars for accident prevention

Required by law to report accidents and

injuries resulting in lost time to the State

First Aid Training

American Heart Association First Aid, CPR and AED one-day course is offered through Public Safety several times a year. Two-year certification issued.

Call 6-9001 to sign up for a class!

First Aid Kits

First aid kits are located across campus

Purchased and maintained by departments

Public Safety has a large response kit

Know the location of the first aid kit and other

emergency equipment in the areas you work and

teach

Our first aid kit(s) is located ________

Campus Emergency Equipment

Blue-light phones in parking lots

Public phones in hallways each floor of buildings (no cost for local calls)

Fire pulls in hallways

Fire sprinklers in all building

Fire extinguishers in hallways and labs

Campus Emergency Equipment

Emergency showers & eyewashes in Science: Classroom Bldg. room 50 and 150 and 3rd floor hallway Engineering & Life Science Bldg. greenhouse entry, 1st

& 2nd floor hallways and by sinks in labs

Chemical Spill Clean-up Kit locations: Engineering & Life Science Bldg. 2nd floor hallway,

room 110 and room 116 Classroom Bldg. room 8, and 3rd floor hallway Multi-Media Bldg. Fine Arts room 107

Physical Plant Building 20 (EH&S)

Campus Emergency Equipment

Automatic External (heart) Defibrillator (AED) in Public Safety

Evacuation stair chair on wall in

Classroom Bldg. 3rd floor stairwell

ADA emergency evacuation rescue pulls (alarm to summon help for those that can’t manage stairs by themselves)

Multi-Media Bldg. by stairwells 2nd floor (green pull stations on wall by red fire alarm pull stations)

Clark Center 3rd floor by stairwells (6” metal buttons marked rescue which are voice and/or push alarm)

GET HELP ON THE WAY!

For all emergency response needs, call 911

Stay Calm and provide 911 dispatcher with your name, location, and nature of the problem

Stay on the line until help arrives

The 911 dispatcher will notify Public Safety,

who in turns notifies other necessary

campus response personnel

Medical Emergency

Call 911, if patient is non-responsive

Public Safety has an EMT; call 6-9001

If awake, ask patient if they want assistance

Don’t move the patient unless necessary

If trained, provide aid, but only to the level trained

Other helpful duties during incident include: Help keep on-lookers away from the patient

Stay back out of the way yourself Direct emergency personnel to patient

Building Evacuation Areas

Each building has an assigned evacuation area

Evacuation maps are posted in classrooms and office areas and are available from Public Safety

Be aware that construction may temporarily change an evacuation area; check with Public Safety for updates

If you work in more than one building, know each building’s evacuation area and emergency equipment locations