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All right , welcome back . Safe , efficient , profitable Worker Safety Podcast . Today we're going to give you one item . That is a great indication that you can evaluate how often you use this item , and I think that there's a direct correlation with risk to your facility or injury . So all right , let's go .

One item . So this thing has what chemical so ?

we use it with chemical water , it with water , and we use it a lot of times to do the word clean something . So whether that's scoop out stuff or wash stuff down or whatever , we usually use this and can be elevated and be can it be stored Yep .

Can we drove over ?

Yeah , we can drive over . We have a lot of injuries with this . In regards to turning the item on turning it off and general use from location to location along with . You said elevation and that is poses All right , woo .

So you should do an evaluation . These are things to go . Let me check , see if I have this , if I have this , and then that will tell you whether there are parts of your program , how much risk you may be having at your facility .

We'll give some solutions at the end , so just hang in there with us

Number one is ladders .

Yeah , you said elevation .

If that hose is by somebody and they're standing on a ladder but the hose goes between their legs , somebody accidentally or under the feet , and someone accidentally pulls the hose back , air , it throws them off the ladder .

Well , and also just considering things like what your three points of contact rules are .

Is it two hands ? How'd you even get up there ? How did you get down ?

Are you requiring them to use two hands ?

Does it have to be running the whole time or can you turn it off ?

Yep , what's what's going on with that ? And I'll actually throw one in here too . And that's used in a scissor lift .

Absolutely .

Using hoses in a scissor lift . I know that there's been some pretty significant events over that in in history , so that elevator leftover that elevated work concept you got to look at .

So we'll give solutions in the end . But the point of it is that elevation ? That's definitely one , whether it be ladders or any kind of pic aerial absolutely hot hot hoses , hot water , that's random , not just daytime , nighttime , because there's no word what hot is yeah so people have different

Yeah , so obviously has to do a little bit . You know , talk to your utilities , boilers obviously is a big thing and the water temperature change .

you're spraying something that's coming back on you and you're not ready for that .

Well , and again , it really depends how hot are you running your water using your boilers and your seams and stuff ? So also , everybody thinks that the water that I use , it melts the skin off and you know . If it's anything above lukewarm , my kids feel like they've just been burned to pieces .

The size hose determines the weight . Oh so how long it is , how the diameter of it is weight and the length , because now I'm carrying this heavy hose up . You would never carry a fire hose somewhere , but people will have the same way , that's through hallways , through all yourself . Yeah .

Maybe now to get to my area .

Get caught on equipment down here . Someone's pulling it .

Yeah , go up a catwalk up , a catwalk down .

Think of how long the hose , what we expect , where we go with it . That's correct , maybe , yeah , shorten it up .

Evaluate the size , diameter and , like you say , where are we all storing them ?

There's a big one Because pressure can change During the night , because the pumps Turn on and off and how many are being used , or what room is being cleaned , in what order . The length of the hose Can change the pressure , diameter of the hose Can change the pressure . People don't think about that .

There's been some too high a pressure .

Absolutely .

Or significantly more pressure than the user thought .

Transport at

Yeah .

That's when we see a lot of injuries . The hose weighs a lot , it's heavy .

Gets caught on something you kind of tug at it , yep no-transcript .

Big , a lot of stuff to carry at one time . All right , the next one I have is the weird product changeover . What that means is maybe we clean the parking lot , maybe we clean the production line real quick for 30 minutes , but you don't want to get anything else wet .

It's only five or ten minutes well , I think the thing that we also need to keep in mind is depending on how you do your chemicals right . So some are foamers , some are hard , and so you're actually hooking up to an inline situation on a wall .

Yep .

And depending on if you have the same hose color for chemical or different for water differentiate . You know they may grab a hose that has a whole length of chemical in it , correct ?

Yeah , it's kind of like the ladder . Why do you need to train a ladder ?

because you do yeah , you know , we also have a conversation about knife handling training . This is kind of the same thing , because it can cause a lot of not ergonomics , but it can cause ergonomic issues but there is a significant

It can be hot , cold , wet . I can't hold it . Well , it's hours , it's pressure . I'm trying to do it in a certain angle and hold it out there .

And sometimes based on , like you said , the pressure and how large your hand is or whatever . You know that changes the comfort , how you can hold that nozzle , but there is a little bit of vibration in there . So it's all the things , from an ergonomic standpoint that you would say are not great .

And then and then you decide to spray it overhead . So now you've got PPE issues . So maybe it's chemical or maybe it's water . Yeah , we see people to wear like a coat like this , like this shirt here , and they'll just be pouring the chemical water . Well , that's gross all night long or all day , yeah , so you get .

Now you gotta look , you gotta look at where it's at or worse , yeah look at where you're spraying it at yeah , look at the angle where they're standing to actually use the hose itself . So maybe they do need to have an elevated platform so that they can get a different angle on it , and it's not just that's a solution .

How about having a different connection point for them ?

yeah , it's one of your solutions connection points change where they're able to stand , so it kind of can change their ppe change the length and the diameter to make it a little bit more user-friendly .

Maybe look at different storage locations so they're not having to tote it the length of the host maybe look at different things , like Like I can roll this card out . Maybe I put it in a tote at the end of the day . Use a forklift or a pile of jack . Take it off the floor .

Yep , absolutely so there's different solutions or different options .

So

Go , look at what you have , look at your risk and believe , the more hose handling at elevation and you start adding layers , your risk is going to go up so that's what you're really looking for is how often are we doing cleaning processes , how often are we using , what can we do to eliminate it ?

We're there to see how to make your process run safer .

Yeah , it's more like a behavior-based safety type approach .

What can we do to eliminate the risk ?

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