Sean Kling
http://www.spktraining.com/
620 West Chestnut Street, Suite 201, Perkasie, Pa. 18944
215-600-1774
EPA Lead Renovators Training, American Heart Association CPR Training, OSHA Training, Forklift Training, Onsite Safety Consulting
Traveling with kids can be a challenge, especially with the added worry of safety thrown into the mix.
It is the responsibility of parents to ensure their children's safety, so these following suggestions may help to avoid accidents and the horror of lost children...
Before leaving on your holiday remind children about your family safety procedures for dealing with strangers, what to do if they get lost.
Keep a recent photo of children handy, also a photocopy of passports kept in a safe place or with a relative that can fax it to you in case of loss.
If you label children's clothing, make sure the label is inside so strangers are not able to learn child's name.
A single parent travelling with children should ensure that permission from other parent is readily available for authorities (this is to prevent one parent abductions). This is especially important for air/train or cross border travel.
Always ensure one parent is in charge of keeping an eye on children and perhaps other parent can look after arrangements for travel.
Dressing children in bright colors makes them readily visible. Try to remember what they are wearing
Consider using a harness for toddlers, especially in busy places like airports, attractions.
Remind children about road safety rules, hold the hand of children under nine at all times when crossing a road or at an intersection.
Remind older children to always tell you where they are going, who with and what time they will be back, have a contact number for them also.
Review your home address, telephone number and provide your children with the name, address and telephone number of a relative or friend to contact in an emergency.
Provide a relative or friend with your travel itinerary and the name and telephone number of any hotels or resorts where you will be staying, if available.
Ensure that all occupants of any vehicles are properly secured and that there are no large or heavy items in the vehicle that may injure the occupants at any sudden stops. See the link below for more information on car safety.
Never leave children alone in a car, temperatures can rise rapidly in a parked car, especially in tropical places.
If travelling by air, make sure all family members are secured by the safety belts when seated.
When using highchairs in restaurants, make sure that children are secured by waist and middle strap.
Remind children to stay away from all animals. Make them aware of poisonous insects, snakes etc.
Keep medicines and poisons away from small children and watch that children don't eat any plants.
If you are bringing or plan on using bicycles while on vacation make sure all family members are biking safely
Go over pool and water safety with them.
Keep them safe!
Sean Kling
http://www.spktraining.com/
620 West Chestnut Street Suite 201, Perkasie, Pa. 18944
215-600-1774
EPA Lead Renovators Course, OSHA Training, Forklift Training, LEED Certification , Lead Dust Sampleing Services, Onsite Safety Consulting
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Work Place Violance
Sean Kling
SPK Training and Compliance
http://www.spktraining.com/
215-600-1774
620 West Chestnut Street Suite 201 Perkasie, Pa. 18944
Bullying is a hazard in the workplace -- but it's not just an occupational hazard, like getting a bad boss instead of a good one, or ending up in an office with co-workers you don't really like.
Katherine Williams, an Ottawa author who's just published a book on the subject, says she always thought the bullying she'd suffered over her 38 years in the workplace was just part of the cost of being employed.
It wasn't until she started doing research for a report on workplace harassment a few years ago that she realized it's not an occupational hazard -- it's violence, and it's more widespread than she knew.
"It has no place in the workplace," Williams says firmly. "It is psychological, emotional violence -- it can be physical violence if things get out of hand. (The research) was just a light shining on a dark corner of my mind, the part of my mind (that thought) I just had to put up with the pain and humiliation."
Williams says before she took early retirement last June to dedicate herself to raising awareness about bullying in the workplace, she'd been the target of at least four major bullying attacks, and several minor ones -- and she has no idea whether those numbers are high.
"There are certain people who are targeted more than others: Good-natured people, because bullies think that being strong is causing pain and hurting people, and people who are good-natured are seen as being weak."
Women over 40 are also singled out, she says. But since the goal of most bullies is to gain power, the competent are also frequent targets of bullies, says Williams, author of Workplace Bullying: A Survival Guide.
"Competent people are strong, they're capable, they're getting awards, they're getting notice, attention, everything bullies crave. So a bully will see this as a threat to be driven out of the workplace."
Quite often, the workplace bully will "co-opt" vulnerable co-workers to help them in their attacks -- a phenomenon that Swedish researcher Heinz Leymann calls "mobbing," a phenomenon that builds on the human instinct to band against a common foe.
Victims of a bully's attack need to realize there is no way to stop being a target if both remain in the workplace -- there will be no agreeing to disagree and getting on with it.
That leaves victims with two choices, Williams says. The first is to fight back, to protect your reputation.
"And also look for another job. Because once a bully gets into a workplace it's really hard to dislodge them unless management's very much aware of the psychology of bullying and realize they've been suckered into hiring a bully. Leave kicking and screaming . . . because bullies thrive when there's silence."
EPA Lead Renovators Training, OSHA Training, CPR , Managment Training , Safety Consulting
http://www.spktraining.com/
SPK Training and Compliance
http://www.spktraining.com/
215-600-1774
620 West Chestnut Street Suite 201 Perkasie, Pa. 18944
Bullying is a hazard in the workplace -- but it's not just an occupational hazard, like getting a bad boss instead of a good one, or ending up in an office with co-workers you don't really like.
Katherine Williams, an Ottawa author who's just published a book on the subject, says she always thought the bullying she'd suffered over her 38 years in the workplace was just part of the cost of being employed.
It wasn't until she started doing research for a report on workplace harassment a few years ago that she realized it's not an occupational hazard -- it's violence, and it's more widespread than she knew.
"It has no place in the workplace," Williams says firmly. "It is psychological, emotional violence -- it can be physical violence if things get out of hand. (The research) was just a light shining on a dark corner of my mind, the part of my mind (that thought) I just had to put up with the pain and humiliation."
Williams says before she took early retirement last June to dedicate herself to raising awareness about bullying in the workplace, she'd been the target of at least four major bullying attacks, and several minor ones -- and she has no idea whether those numbers are high.
"There are certain people who are targeted more than others: Good-natured people, because bullies think that being strong is causing pain and hurting people, and people who are good-natured are seen as being weak."
Women over 40 are also singled out, she says. But since the goal of most bullies is to gain power, the competent are also frequent targets of bullies, says Williams, author of Workplace Bullying: A Survival Guide.
"Competent people are strong, they're capable, they're getting awards, they're getting notice, attention, everything bullies crave. So a bully will see this as a threat to be driven out of the workplace."
Quite often, the workplace bully will "co-opt" vulnerable co-workers to help them in their attacks -- a phenomenon that Swedish researcher Heinz Leymann calls "mobbing," a phenomenon that builds on the human instinct to band against a common foe.
Victims of a bully's attack need to realize there is no way to stop being a target if both remain in the workplace -- there will be no agreeing to disagree and getting on with it.
That leaves victims with two choices, Williams says. The first is to fight back, to protect your reputation.
"And also look for another job. Because once a bully gets into a workplace it's really hard to dislodge them unless management's very much aware of the psychology of bullying and realize they've been suckered into hiring a bully. Leave kicking and screaming . . . because bullies thrive when there's silence."
EPA Lead Renovators Training, OSHA Training, CPR , Managment Training , Safety Consulting
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Wednesday, November 3, 2010
EPA Lead Renovators Training Course
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Common renovation activities like sanding, cutting, and demolition can create hazardous lead dust and chips by disturbing lead-based paint, which can be harmful to adults and children.
To protect against this risk, on April 22, 2008, EPA issued a rule requiring the use of lead-safe practices and other actions aimed at preventing lead poisoning. Under the rule, beginning April 22, 2010, contractors performing renovation, repair and painting projects that disturb lead-based paint in homes, child care facilities, and schools built before 1978 must be certified and must follow specific work practices to prevent lead contamination.
EPA requires that firms performing renovation, repair, and painting projects that disturb lead-based paint in pre-1978 homes, child care facilities and schools be certified by EPA and that they use certified renovators who are trained by EPA-approved training providers to follow lead-safe work practices. Individuals can become certified renovators by taking an eight-hour training course from an EPA-approved training provider. Learn how to become an EPA certified firm and where to take a training course near you.
Contractors must use lead-safe work practices and follow these three simple procedures:
Contain the work area.
Minimize dust.
Clean up thoroughly.
Read EPA's Regulations on Residential Property Renovation at 40 CFR 745.80, Subpart E.
Read about lead-hazard information for renovation, repair and painting activities in the EPA lead hazard information pamphlet Renovate Right: Important Lead Hazard Information for Families, Child Care Providers, and Schools (PDF) (11 pp, 1.1MB)
en español (PDF) (11 pp, 2.4MB)
Read about how to comply with EPA's rule in the EPA Small Entity Compliance Guide to Renovate Right (PDF) (32 pp, 5.5MB)
en español (PDF) (34 pp, 1.3MB).
Find additional EPA publications and brochures on lead-safe renovation, repair and painting and on lead poisoning prevention.
Beginning in December 2008, the rule requires that contractors performing renovation, repair and painting projects that disturb lead-based paint provide to owners and occupants of child care facilities and to parents and guardians of children under age six that attend child care facilities built prior to 1978 the lead hazard information pamphlet Renovate Right: Important Lead Hazard Information for Families, Child Care Providers, and Schools (PDF) (11 pp, 1.1MB).
en español (PDF) (11 pp, 2.4MB)
The rule affects paid renovators who work in pre-1978 housing and child-occupied facilities, including:
Renovation contractors
Maintenance workers in multi-family housing
Painters and other specialty trades.
Under the rule, child-occupied facilities are defined as residential, public or commercial buildings where children under age six are present on a regular basis. The requirements apply to renovation, repair or painting activities. The rule generally does not apply to minor maintenance or repair activities where less than six square feet of lead-based paint is disturbed in a room or where less then 20 square feet of lead-based paint is disturbed on the exterior, but this does not include window replacement, demolition, or prohibited practices.
Previously, owner-occupants of homes built before 1978 could certify that no child six years of age or younger or pregnant woman was living in the home and "opt-out" of having their contractors follow lead-safe work practices in their homes. On April 23, 2010, to better prevent against lead paint poisoning, EPA issued a final rule to apply lead-safe work practices (PDF) (18 pp, 121K) to most pre-1978 homes, effectively closing the exemption. The rule eliminating the opt-out provision became effective July 6, 2010.
SPK Training and Compliance
620 West Chestnut St.
Suite 201
Perkasie, Pa. 18944
http://www.spktraining.com/
215-600-1774
Common renovation activities like sanding, cutting, and demolition can create hazardous lead dust and chips by disturbing lead-based paint, which can be harmful to adults and children.
To protect against this risk, on April 22, 2008, EPA issued a rule requiring the use of lead-safe practices and other actions aimed at preventing lead poisoning. Under the rule, beginning April 22, 2010, contractors performing renovation, repair and painting projects that disturb lead-based paint in homes, child care facilities, and schools built before 1978 must be certified and must follow specific work practices to prevent lead contamination.
EPA requires that firms performing renovation, repair, and painting projects that disturb lead-based paint in pre-1978 homes, child care facilities and schools be certified by EPA and that they use certified renovators who are trained by EPA-approved training providers to follow lead-safe work practices. Individuals can become certified renovators by taking an eight-hour training course from an EPA-approved training provider. Learn how to become an EPA certified firm and where to take a training course near you.
Contractors must use lead-safe work practices and follow these three simple procedures:
Contain the work area.
Minimize dust.
Clean up thoroughly.
Read EPA's Regulations on Residential Property Renovation at 40 CFR 745.80, Subpart E.
Read about lead-hazard information for renovation, repair and painting activities in the EPA lead hazard information pamphlet Renovate Right: Important Lead Hazard Information for Families, Child Care Providers, and Schools (PDF) (11 pp, 1.1MB)
en español (PDF) (11 pp, 2.4MB)
Read about how to comply with EPA's rule in the EPA Small Entity Compliance Guide to Renovate Right (PDF) (32 pp, 5.5MB)
en español (PDF) (34 pp, 1.3MB).
Find additional EPA publications and brochures on lead-safe renovation, repair and painting and on lead poisoning prevention.
Beginning in December 2008, the rule requires that contractors performing renovation, repair and painting projects that disturb lead-based paint provide to owners and occupants of child care facilities and to parents and guardians of children under age six that attend child care facilities built prior to 1978 the lead hazard information pamphlet Renovate Right: Important Lead Hazard Information for Families, Child Care Providers, and Schools (PDF) (11 pp, 1.1MB).
en español (PDF) (11 pp, 2.4MB)
The rule affects paid renovators who work in pre-1978 housing and child-occupied facilities, including:
Renovation contractors
Maintenance workers in multi-family housing
Painters and other specialty trades.
Under the rule, child-occupied facilities are defined as residential, public or commercial buildings where children under age six are present on a regular basis. The requirements apply to renovation, repair or painting activities. The rule generally does not apply to minor maintenance or repair activities where less than six square feet of lead-based paint is disturbed in a room or where less then 20 square feet of lead-based paint is disturbed on the exterior, but this does not include window replacement, demolition, or prohibited practices.
Previously, owner-occupants of homes built before 1978 could certify that no child six years of age or younger or pregnant woman was living in the home and "opt-out" of having their contractors follow lead-safe work practices in their homes. On April 23, 2010, to better prevent against lead paint poisoning, EPA issued a final rule to apply lead-safe work practices (PDF) (18 pp, 121K) to most pre-1978 homes, effectively closing the exemption. The rule eliminating the opt-out provision became effective July 6, 2010.
SPK Training and Compliance
620 West Chestnut St.
Suite 201
Perkasie, Pa. 18944
http://www.spktraining.com/
215-600-1774
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