May 2018 Enforcement
Florida Utilities Contractor Cited for Willful and Serious Safety Violations After Trench Collapse
Jax Utilities Management Inc., was cited for exposing employees to trenching hazards after a worker was hospitalized for injuries caused by an unprotected trench collapse. The Jacksonville utilities contractor was also cited for exposing employees to struck-by and caught-in hazards, allowing employees to work without cave-in protection, and allowing water to accumulate in the trench. OSHA proposed penalties of $271,606. Read the news release for more information.
Our JSA app helps to identify potential hazards and implement controls to minimize your risks. The process involves breaking down jobs into individual tasks which greatly improves your ability to identify risk and minimize the hazards associated with the job!
You can use your completed JSA’s for orientation training or pre-job startup meetings. Essentially, they become a Toolbox Talk that can be quickly and easily reviewed your employees to not only help them perform the job correctly but more importantly, safely!
Our app helps take complicated jobs and break them down into simple tasks. Once the tasks are identified, it’s much easer to identify potential hazards associated with each task. And once the hazards are identified, the process of developing control measures to eliminate or minimize the risk is simple!
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