KSP Instellar Mod for Kerbal Space Program. FractalUK / KSPInterstellar. Wiki Pulse Graphs Waste Heat Management. Donziboy2 edited this page Jan 4, 2014 Gathering heat and is distributed across the tower where the water is in direct contact with the atmosphere as it recircu-lates across the tower structure. Closed circuit systems differ in that the return fluid (often water. Heat Stress Prevention Program. Many workers at the University work in hot environments. These include employees working at physical plant, housing, hazardous waste, pest control, fine arts, laundry and agricultural worksites. OSHA's Campaign to Prevent Heat Illness in Outdoor Workers. Coordinator: Good morning and thank you all for holding. Your lines have been placed on a listen- only mode until the question and answer portion of today's conference. I would like to remind all parties the call is now being recorded if you have any objections to please disconnect at this time. And I would now like to turn the call over to Dr. Thank you, you may begin. Dr. David Michaels: Good morning. Thank you for joining the call. After the past week's record temperatures it's timely that we're here to talk about heat and worker safety. And it is especially tragic when someone dies of heat exposure because they're simply doing their job. For 6 years prior to the retirement of the Space Shuttle Program, the shuttles carried an onboard repair kit with a tool for emergency use: two tubes of NOAX, or “good goo,” as some people called it. Establishing a Foundry Heat Stress Management Program AFS Safety & Health Committee 10-Q, Principal Author R.C. Scholz, P.E., CIH, RMT, Inc. AFS Safety & Health Committee 10-Q Reviewers J. Bailey, American Cast Iron Pipe. Heat Stress Safety Management : I. Operations involving high air temperatures, radiant heat sources. NIOSH (1986) states that a good heat stress training program should include at least the following components. We see cases like this every year and every one of them is preventable. We're here today to highlight the efforts of responsible employers to keep their workers safe on the job including from heat illness. We're grateful and encouraged by their actions. Sadly although every heat death can be prevented dozens of workers die from exposure every year. Last summer these included a tree care worker in Virginia, a landscaper in Kentucky, a temporary worker on his first day collecting garbage in Texas. Fatalities are the most extreme outcome of heat exposure and they most often occur to workers who have been on the job a few days or less. Many more workers become dangerously ill from heat. Last summer OSHA received reports of more than 2. And we know that is in undercount of the actual number. We also know that in this current heat wave workers are concerned about their safety. In fact we've received a record number of emails, comments and questions regarding heat and worker rights in recent weeks. I'd like to read a few just to give you a sense of the reality some workers face on a daily basis. We work out in the heat. We asked our manager about getting water that we don't have access to. They said it's just too much money to deal with it or my husband works for a disposable company for medical waste. He works inside a building where the temperature has reached well over 1. Look and already this year we're investigating several workers fatalities that appear to be heat related. So we feel it's urgent to get the message out that workers must be protected from the effects of heat. OSHA has resources on its Web page osha. Our regional offices have also been actively conducting outreach and education on the dangers of heat. This week in our Atlanta region which covers eight southern states our staff is joining with employers and trade associations for a one hour safety stand down at construction sites and other workplaces across the South. We've also updated our free heat app for i. Phone and Android devices designed to let workers and supervisors know when conditions have entered the danger zone. The program uses data from the National Weather Service to calculate the heat index at the workers location and advises when the risk level is high. The app is available in English and Spanish and also describes way to prevent heat illness and identify symptoms. The app is very popular. It has been downloaded more than 2. While none of these efforts would amount to much, the resources weren't used to protect workers from heat illness and that's why we're so encouraged when we see evidence of this happening. Today I am very pleased to highlight a few employers who are taking to heart their responsibilities to protect workers in the heat. They're providing cooling vests, shade canopies, hydrating popsicles and crucially more frequent breaks during heat spells. We will hear from them shortly but first I want to introduce you to a group that took OSHA's message of water, rest, shade and ran with it sending it out to an industry that touches just about every home in America. This is the National Waste and Recycling Association. It was about a month ago that we first learned about the Association's social media campaign to protect waste collecting workers from heat. It struck a chord in part because as I mentioned earlier we had investigated the heat fatality of a waste collection worker in Texas just last summer. I'm thrilled to say that the Association's campaign resulted in safety stand downs across the country involving an estimated 7. Anyone who has watched a garbage collection crew in action knows that this is physically demanding work all the more so in the heat. So it's my pleasure to introduce Anthony Hargis, National Safety Director for the National Waste & Recycling Association. Anthony I'll turn it over to you. Anthony Hargis: Thank you. And thank you for having me on this call. You know, all the statistics and all the information you just gave are exactly the reason why the National Waste & Recycling Association decided to take on the Water. Program that OSHA has currently available in their Web site. What we did was we really replicated what OSHA already has to communicate that message to the industry. The statistics out there as you mentioned are just astronomical. And we looked at all of our workers in this industry as work athletes because truth of the matter is the rate at which they work is something that a professional athlete would have difficulty equaling in a day's period. You look at your typical athlete and, you know, they're - they have quarters in their football games, and half time breaks, and, you know, at the end of the day, you know, at the end of the day the whole game might have lasted two hours in length where, you know, a worker in the waste and recycling industry you're looking at, you know, say a ten hour day with a, you know, an hour break in the day with a couple of, you know, lunch breaks or water rest breaks in between. But they're working at peak performance all day long outside in the environments that as OSHA has said in their general duty clause that an employer must provide a work environment free of recognized hazards. The issue - the difficulty in our industry is that we don't own the environment that they work in it's the customers that we pick up and collect waste and recycle from. We don't own the environment. So we have to work processes and procedures to put in place to manage the work hours that the workers that are currently addressing on a daily basis. And that's really why the materials that OSHA has produced in their Web site just fit perfectly for our environment. It requires employers to really look at that climatization where for instance you get a brand new worker where the incidence the Dr. Michaels spoke of just a minute ago were statistically around employees who had only worked in the industry for one day, three days and one of them have been there for a year. In those cases they're coming in as an athlete. And you can't expect an athlete to jump right into a professional situation physically and be able to compete 1. So that's where the climatization comes into play. And we had material available in our Web site that the - around 7. You know, the processes, you know, pretty much fell into eight primary categories. One is the heat climatization, you know, requiring the employees to, you know, drink a cup of water every 1. In most cases on a collections route the driver and the helpers have, you know, hopefully air conditioning in the truck. And the shade is kind of hard to come by when you're picking up residential garbage. The, you know, providing work employees with protective equipment. You know, that becomes difficult because the employees need to wear a safety vest. So what the companies have done is they've provided lighter weight material or clothing for the workers to wear during the day to keep them, you know, visible to the public, you know, with reflective safety clothing, you know, high vis shirts as well as keeping them safe in their work environments. The conditions that our employees work in, in most cases, you know, you think of collections and there's, you know, that opportunity for breaks during the day. Once they get on a route - and give you an example. In my subdivision - there's 2. They - the developers developed the - those houses so that there's very little to no space between the - each driveway. The driveways are not straight across from each other so it's not a set spot. So the waste and recycling collectors in my neighborhood pretty much are walking my entire neighborhood. I live in outside of Atlanta. In my neighborhood alone you're looking at - I drove through the neighborhood there's four almost 4- 1/2 miles of roads once you get into the subdivision and these workers don't get any break in that environment. So what employers are doing is they're scheduling time stop for and that's really what the materials that OSHA has on the Web site has come to address is opportunities. Ways that the employers can manage that timing during the day to make sure that the employees are getting that proper amount of rest, you know, the shade and the - and air- conditioned vehicles is really something that we struggle with in this industry. So that's where all those other aspects have to come into play which is requiring too drink water. Providing that to those employees by potentially having, you know, coolers on the front of the trucks, providing the Web app because that was probably one of the best tools that I have seen for our industry for specially for corporations and companies that are managing worksites in multiple locations from across the country is you can literally go into the Heat Index Web site Heat Index tool that OSHA has and type in the name of the city you're looking for or that you're managing to and it'll give you what that heat index is. To give you an example I typed in Phoenix, Arizona and that's where one of our members is going to be talking in a minute about from - that's where he's from. And it tells you that today they're having a moderate risk day. And later today at their peak the peak of the day's heat they're going to be at high risk.
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