Safety Training

[NMFP]

Hello Everyone:

I need to give a 20 minute short course in sawmill safety and wondered if anyone has any online sources of aquiring information for this course.  It is to be a very basic course such as personal protection equipment along with a few other small additional topics. 

I have a lot of information now but just looking for some additional information and resources to communicate to the audience.

Thanks and greatly appreciate the help!

Thanks!

NMFP 8) 8) 8)

[terrifictimbersllc]

Found this page at the Wood-Mizer site under "sawmills"....."mill safety".  you have to click on 1, 2, 3 etc to walk through it.

https://www.woodmizer.com/us/sawmills/millSafety/index.aspx

[Chuck White]

That's pretty good, I hadn't seen that safety section before.

I would also suggest you go through your owners manual and take note of the DANGER, WARNING, & CAUTION symbols and make kind of an outline of your presentation from them.

[Cedarman]

Sign on my brothers LT 40.
STEP  1  Engage Brain
That is the start of any job.  Safety always is a mind set.  Everything else follows that.

[Chuck White]

Sign on my brothers LT 40.
STEP  1  Engage Brain
That is the start of any job.  Safety always is a mind set.  Everything else follows that.

That's right Cedarman, USE COMMON SENSE.

[Magicman]

I've mentioned safety in different posts several times.  From head to toe, we should always be protected.

My standard safety gear is always worn, even for one cut.  It includes hat, safety glasses, respirator/mask, ear plugs, gloves, safety toed boots, and I wear a welder's waist apron.  Chaps are a requirement before I crank the chainsaw.




I have no source for literature, but I believe that each of the above should be covered.

[terrifictimbersllc]

I think it very important to keep the worksite neat and pick up things you could trip over. Especially little pieces and strips of wood, end trimmings etc.   I saw a workplace safety poster once somewhere that I have searched for in vain and would like to find so I could put it in my shop and maybe even mount on the mill.   

It had a number of great lines two were something like this..... "a place for everything and everything in its place......organization is a hallmark of a safe workplace"   Anyone seen it would appreciate a link. 

Here's another thing especially if kids around:

[Magicman]

Good point about kids.

I have found my clutch lever engaged a couple of times.  This alerted me that kids had been messing around the mill after I left .  A close look revealed small footprints in the sawdust.

Red flagging may help, but with kids  ???

The last paragraph in my Saw Contract deals with the customer's responsibility concerning workers, kids, and bystanders.

[terrifictimbersllc]

When I leave the mill overnight, I move the head to the front,  lower it to the bed, and put an Abus motorcycle security chain around the back mast upright and main rail.  Also take my fluids with me. Also lower the loader arms to the ground.

[Cedarman]

I left a good bit of fluid near the mill when I customed sawed years ago, but I took the oil and gas home with me at night.

[Magicman]

I leave nothing but the mill, even when I know it would absolutely safe and I know that I will be back the next morning.  The last job was 2½ miles past a locked gate and everything went home with me.  Just habit.

I would hate for a cow or horse to step on my favorite ATF squirt bottle.  They do quite often leave their "deposits" scattered about, but sawdust makes fine litter box.

[backwoods sawyer]

I started putting the mill covers on when I leave the mill over night, and like magic man. I load up all of my gear after all it has a place in the back of the truck and everything goes in its own place. Neatness goes a long way towards safety, so I tight stack the tailings as well. You never know who or what will be climbing on the stack of tailings.

[wannasaw]

A little late weighing in but one I really like; "safety and quality are both choices with many alternatives"