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14 “ Things to look forward to with a safety program investment include a decrease in injuries, accidents and illnesses, with significant savings on insurance premiums ” over seven million, prominent jobs for this company include repainting the Barnegate Light House, a concrete structure on Long Beach Island, and lead abatement and painting for the New Jersey Governor’s mansion. One of the ways the safety program has benefited the company is in the procurement of pharmaceutical company work. Scaturro says, “One of the contracts we won was with a top five pharmaceutical company that required a three week submission process with multiple interviews for a threeyear time and material contract. Safety was the number one criteria, not price. We submitted inches of documentation in safety and company processes.” Scaturro says breaking into the pharmaceutical market would not have happened without a flawless safety program. The work involves everything from painting offices to plant work, applying high performance wall systems inside their granulation tanks to painting plant floors. Safety policies may help sell jobs but the more obvious purpose is to protect workers. Hamberg’s company enforces a noheadphone and no-radio policy to keep lines of communication between workers open. Once he had a crew working on a residential exterior situated on a hillside in a wooded area. The drop-off was canyon-like. Next door a tree trimming company was working with ropes between the trees. A tree trimmer fell 70 to 80 feet and his young helper panicked and screamed rather than run for help. Hamberg’s painter heard him and was able to scale the hill and perform CPR to stabilize the worker. The ambulance came and used ropes to get down to him and pull him out. Had the painter been wearing headphones, the tree trimmer would have died. Instead, he credits the painter with saving his life. Although this is not an everyday occurrence, Hamberg says headphones not only impede hearing but distract people from concentrating on their work. Another protocol Joel Hamberg Painting utilizes is the “Stay on the jobsite for lunch” rule. This policy reduces the risk of speeding tickets, accidents, lost parking | pdca.org spaces, jobs abandoned with ladders and paint pumps still set up, or the risk of masking tape that could ignite. Hamberg says, “We’re not trying to be Gestapo Painting.” But safety and production are managed better this way, and he backs up the policy by buying all his painters lunch coolers and often treating the crews to pizza on Friday. It’s clear from these contractors that a safety program is a profitable venture. O’Connor says, “Things to look forward to with a safety program investment include a decrease in injuries, accidents and illnesses, with significant savings on insurance premiums.” PDCA’s web based esafetyline costs $150.00 per year and has a database for your employees that allow you to keep track of training and access records such as OSHA logs. O’Connor adds, “It will walk you through compliance with all the standards and regulations that pertain to painting contractors.” And that’s a bargain even a talking ladder can shout about. Why the orange vests and glowing neon T-shirts? You’ll see the high visibility garments when there is a traffic safety concern—for example, on a new construction site where it is critical for workers to be seen amidst traffic flow coming off road and onto the site. Do I really need a hard hat for my type of work? They provide protection from falling or flying objects, but they’re not just for when overhead work is occurring. They are also for situations where hammering could be going on with a risk of chunks flying to the side. Did you know? At least half the states follow the federal plan for OSHA, but others have state plans that may exceed the federal standards. And some general contractors may have more stringent rules than both federal and state standards.
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