Safety Orientation
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EnglishVoice Age
Young Adult (18-35)Accents
North American (General)Transcript
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Hey guys and welcome to strictly mechanical. Now, you're probably here for a variety of reasons. Um, you like the H V A C industry, maybe you just needed a job or maybe you heard that strictly team is where you need to be, if you want to be part of a winning organization regardless you are here now and as of right now you are a member of the team and we are a growing team at that, you're sitting here listening to me right now because before you go into the field we have to talk about safety right here strictly. We think it is pretty important and we need to understand it is important that you start off the right way from day one before you do anything before you perform any activity, just take a few seconds and think how can I reduce my chances of getting hurt and getting somebody else hurt while performing this activity. If you get in the habit of doing that, you won't think of safety as a separate annoying thing that the supervisor makes us do, it will become just a normal part of daily life for you and it will make your chances of getting hurt go down so much more, which is, which is kind of a big deal. Yeah, this is a business and yes, the ultimate goal is to make money, which is a big reason of why you chose to be employed here. But if you get hurt, you can't make money if you get hurt strictly can't make money. So this is where our goals and your goals tend to align. Um, and so I mean it really just makes sense for both of us to care about safety with that being said, it falls to you. I mean it is totally your responsibility before you start that grinder to put on your face shield before you pick up, somebody might cut your hands to put on your gloves. I mean you just got to think. Um, so please make sure on every single job site you're wearing your hard hat, you have your safety glasses on, you have your gloves on, you have your earplugs and if you need them, you've got the right boots on, make sure you're wearing what you need to wear in order to be safe. Um, I mean, I highly recommend a set of steel toe boots, but I mean that's, that's not mandatory. Um, I can tell you on quite a few occasions where that's uh, then the difference between me getting hurt in the field and not, so just, you know, just a little help there. Um, also if you're on the roof, stay away from the edge. If there's no parapet or no guardrail, six ft stay six ft away from the edge and you'll be good. Just just try to think before you do anything that might get you hurt. No, and obviously those are not all the rules we have. I'm just trying to give you some quick ones to remember that are that are easy to remember. It can it can save you a lot of heartache. Um and a lot of courageous conversations between you and your supervisor. So again pay attention and keep yourself safe. I mean um safety isn't just the thing that people remind you to do occasionally uh strictly its normal operating procedure, I mean it's even written into our corporate policy um and I mean we we kind of have to make sure we do that um because of a little organization called OSHA. All right, the occupational Safety and Health Administration, also known as OSHA is kind of a big deal in the construction world and they tend to raise their standards almost every single year. And in effect strictly and every other contractor in the construction world has to do the same thing um in order to make sure they're up to standard. Um and OSHA safety violation is a big deal. Um It comes with a huge find from the government agency and in a situation where we're trying to make money a fine is is not a good thing obviously. Um So from a financial standpoint, of course we want you to stay safe. Um and we wanted to stay safe as a human being and be able to go back home in the same exact condition that you came to work. And so and and in that respect, I mean the cost of an accident goes far beyond just a doctor's visit when you get insurance agencies and workman's comp and all that kind of stuff involved. So long story short you stay safe and everybody wins now to take that one step further. We again practice safety every single day. So on monday or the first day of the week, every week we have a strictly safety meeting that starts at 6 15. Now this isn't uh, if you choose to do it kind of thing, this is a mandatory meeting uh, at the beginning of every week and we go over all kinds of stuff. It's usually one topic per week and it'll be various safety topics. Um, going from anything from ladder safety to grinders to P. P. E. You know, anything like that. So basically topics to make sure that you're staying safe in the field. Uh This is also a great avenue to ask questions, especially for the new guys in the field. If you see something that you think is unsafe or if you are in a situation and you don't know how to handle it, you're sitting right next to a veteran guy who's probably been in that situation 20 times. So this is, this is a great way to listen to each other. And if you hear a story about what happened to somebody else, it can probably save you from the same heartache. So definitely a big deal. You make, make sure you want to pay attention. Um, and again ask questions if you don't know something because if you have a question there's probably a guarantee that somebody said next to you has a very similar question but just doesn't want to ask. So um, safety is, is a good discussion to have so speak up. Mm Another big part of our safety program here at strictly is making sure that every employee has at a minimum and OSHA 10 certification. Now you will start working on this today. Um normally this can be completed in two days. It's a, it's a 10 hour course that will let you take about eight hours at a time. So we normally let most guys finish it off site but you're welcome to come in for the last couple of hours and finish it up at the office on that second day. Um Again, it's a 10 hour course and it basically exposes workers to a lot of your possible dangers that you could encounter on a normal job site. And it gives you, you know, your safest options to avoid those problems. And for OSHA, that's, you know, that's, that's a big deal. We want to avoid as many safety problems as possible and we want to make sure we have our safety options in place to make sure we minimize, you know, any type of accidents that could occur. So we want to avoid those safety issues but obviously we're not gonna be able to avoid them. Also, the best way to um make sure you stay safe is to go ahead and prepare ahead of time so that when something does happen, you fall to your train um and you make sure that that you're staying safe and in that ocean course it's gonna cover a lot of different topics, those of which you see in front of you. Um just to name a few uh fall protection, which for us as a mechanical contractor, you're gonna be on the roof a lot. That's that's going to happen, You're gonna be up high places. So fall protection is a big deal, you know, knowing what a safety vest is and knowing where your tie off points are and um making sure that you tie off to something that can hold your truck. I mean, that's a lot of guys wouldn't just know that. I mean, you need to know this type of thing also, you know, you're struck by and you're caught in between hazards. PPE obviously we've talked about that already, but that's a big deal. Um, ladders scaffolding. Uh there's a proper way to climb a ladder um on every single ladder, you need to have at least three points of contact on the ladder at all times, which means that you cannot carry stuff up a ladder according to ocean. Uh if you need to get materials up on the roof, you need to get yourself on the roof and then you need to rope up those materials um in the safest way possible. So again, there's a lot of little things that you may just assume. I don't want you to assume anything once you learn the proper way to do things That way, you know it from day one and it's just normal business from this day, on just to kind of summarize guys. Again, safety isn't an extra. Um, we wanted just to be a normal part of your life, normal thing that you do every day to make sure you keep all your fingers and toes and make sure you again go back home the same exact way you came to work today. Um, we want you to do that so you can come back tomorrow and continue to do a professional job for strictly mechanical. Um, as soon as you walk on a job site, again, make sure you have your hard hat, your safety vest, your safety harness. If you're going to be high up in the air, your safety glasses, um, make sure you've got your gloves on, make sure you've got your boots, your, your work boots, make sure you've got all of those items that can help keep you safe. Now, all of these items cost money obviously. Um, so make sure that you are taking care of them because if we issue you a hard hat today and then next week you lose your hard hat and you need another one, you most likely going to have to pay for that. I mean these hard hats are OSHA approved and certify their expensive your safety classes, your safety vest. This stuff costs money. So make sure you are taking care of this stuff will give you the first one for free. And obviously after a couple of years when this stuff wears out, we'll replace it. But we're not going to replace this stuff every week. So make sure you take care of this stuff or it will come out of your pocket the second time. Okay? And we're just doing this to to again, make sure you have what you need and safety is your responsibility. So you have to do it every day and again, make it a part of your normal everyday life. As you will hear me say at the end of every safety meeting, Stay safe out there guys, thank you.