HAZARD TRAINING Keeping People Involved
Doug Walters
BYU
Risk Management and Safety
Make Training Active
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A crucial part of a proactive approach
to health and safety awareness is
through interactive training.
Training is of little benefit if the
trainee doesn’t retain the information
or can’t practice what has been
taught.
Some Failures
 Prizes
 Post
as incentives
session quizzes
 Lecture
Style
Some Successes
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Giving Perspectives
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LOGO contest
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OSHA Aggravation
Some Successes
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Training Football
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Hazard Hoops
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Hazard Jeopardy
Perspectives help people remember
concepts
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Time
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1 P.P.M = 1 second in _____
1 P.P.B. = 1 second in _____
Money
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1 P.P.M. = $.01 in $ ________
1 P.P.B. = $01 in $ __________
It helps to bring
some perspectives
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Miscellaneous
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1 P.P.B.= 1 drop root beer extract in ___
barrels of water
1 P.P.B.= 1 pinch of salt in 10 tons/potato
chips
1 mg = ~ weight of a ___________
1 kg = 2.2 pounds or ~ 9 ____ _ ____
50 mg/kg = __ thumbprints on 9 _____
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Would you want to work around
a chemical that:
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Causes excessive sweating and throwing up
Major component of acid rain
Accidental inhalation can kill you
Causes severe burns in gaseous state
Contributes to erosion
Decreases effectiveness of car brakes
Found in tumors of terminal cancer patients.
Name that Chemical:
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_________
Imagine eating
the following for lunch:
Enriched flour, barley malt, ferrous sulfate,
niacin, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin,
water, corn syrup, yeast, vegetable oil, salt,
wheat gluten, soy flour, calcium sulfate,
calcium stearoyl lactylate, mono &
diglycerides, mono & dicalcium phosphate,
potassium bromate, calcium propionate,
beef protein,
Imagine eating
the following for lunch:
fiber, hydrogenated soybean oil, blue
cheese, white distilled vinegar, sugar,
xanthan gum, polysorbate 60, sorbic acid,
dried garlic, calcium disodium
ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid,
carbonated water, caramel coloring,
phosphoric acid, sodium citrate, sodium
saccharin, caffeine, sodium benzoate,
phenylalanine, citric acid.
What was your meal?
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LOGO Contest
Use paper and crayons to make a
logo for using PPE
OSHA AGGREVATION
These words often go together in
many supervisor’s minds
Category Selection
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Chemical Safety
First Aid and
Emergency Response
Personal Protective
Equipment
Sample Card Question:
OSHA got a complaint that
your department did not have
MSDS, you will go back 3
spaces if you can’t tell the
inspector where MSDS are
kept.
Sample Card Question:
An employee has just
gotten hydrochloric acid
on his arm, the burn is a
chronic health effect.
T or F
Sample Card Questions:
Goggles are the minimum
eye protection required
when working with
corrosives or when there
is a splash hazard.
T or F
FOOTBALL TRAINING TOOL
Probably seasonal?
Sample game questions:
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Which health hazard class involves materials
that if a long term over-exposure occurs, it
may result in cancer?
Oxidizers are dangerous because they can
break down to produce what?
I am required to know all of the following of
my PPE except:
a: Don/Doffing
b: When it is required
c: certified strength of its material
Sample Positive Yard Plays:
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It’s a give to the Fullback up the middle,
he dodges both Linebackers and finally
gets brought down by the strong safety
for a 25 yard gain.
It’s a Quarterback sneak for 25 yards.
It’s a screen pass to the Tailback, he
scrambles for a whopping 20 yard gain.
Sample Negative Yard Plays:
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Quarterback drops back to pass, trips over his
own shoe string, fumbles the ball, but his own
man recovers. Result -22 yards
The Quarterback drops back, gets chased out
of the pocket and pushed back 25 yards before
being sacked.
The hand off is to the tail back, but the
defense blitzes and tackles the back as he gets
the handoff. -10 yards.
HAZARD JEOPARDY
All hazards put one in jeopardy.
HAZARD JEOPARDY
PPE
FIRST
AID
MSDS
EMERG
RESP.
CHEMICAL
HAZARDS
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Sample Answers
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You must take this action prior to using
any personal protective equipment
Inhalation, Skin Absorption, Ingestion and
Injection
This contains storage, handling, product
identification and toxicity information
Spin the wheel for safety
Seems as if incidents go round
and round
Wheel Description
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Red - Storage requirements
Blue - Personal Protective Equipment
Green - Labeling requirements
Yellow - Transportation and Manifesting
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Spin for points
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Harder the question, the higher the point
value.
Sample Questions
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IDEM comes for a RCRA inspection, they find
that your waste containers are properly labeled.
What information is contained on the label?
What is the EPA waste code for PCB’s ?
When commingling solvents, safety glasses are
the minimally required personal protective
equipment. True or False
Always Remember:
You can tell people what they need to
know very quickly.
But they will forget what you tell them
even faster.
People learn best by doing. (playing?)
Everyone is creative
Make training fun and creative, but
most important, make training
interactive.
Special thanks to
Lisa Dahl-Bognar, CHMM, CCHO
Chemical Safety Specialist
University of Notre Dame
Snow Ball Fight
If using videos
choose some that reinforce the
safety topic by using familiar
activities or humor -DISTRACTED DRIVING
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Skating, surgery, hockey
The Bean
Road Rage
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Parking Lot
LOTO
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Floating head
IN the News
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Autos killing 110 a day-let’s resolve to do
better
Something went wrong in Jet crashexperts say.
Miners refuse to work after death.
FACTS
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Accidental deaths appear much less
significant compared to heart disease and
cancer when you just count the deaths
caused. However, if you compare the
number of _________, accidents move
into first place among killers of Americans.
Facts
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First time user of crack cocaine has a 1 in
3 chance of becoming addicted—to
cigarettes it is ________.
A white substance once sold in Chinese
apothecaries for tongue ailments was said
to be dragon’s brains mixed with earth.
Today it is called ____________.
Facts
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Emergency rooms treat twice as many left
handed people for accidents as they do for
right handed people.
______________work days are lost each
year because of headaches.
The common name for writer’s cramp
is_____________ _____________.
Facts
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A typical American worker is____ times
more likely to die during leisure time
activities than at work.
The most common type of diseases
caused by work are _______ disorders
Jokes
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Boss, “how long will it take for your
husband’s leg to heal so he can get back
to work?”
Wife, “not for a long time”
Boss, “why I thought it was almost well.”
Wife, “ it was—but then ____________
set in”
Fall Protection
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Limericks---There was a young fellow
named Hall who fell in the spring in the
fall. T’would-have been a sad thing if he
died in the spring, but, he didn’t-he died
in the fall.
Demos
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Egg Belt
Squeeze the can
SUMMARY
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The Golden Rule of Training:
Train others as you would have
them train unto you.
Golden Rule Means:
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Be enthusiastic
Have Fun
Try to involve audience
Tons of stuff on-line-Be creative
Give them something to remind them of
class (handout-prop-etc.)