Recent Safety Improvements
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recent safety improvements
Atlantic States Cast Iron Pipe Safety Improvements 2008
1. Reduced TRIR to 6.93
2. Safety programs and procedures that were implemented:
- Employee Emergency & Disaster Preparedness Procedure
- Hot Work
- Ergonomics
- Chemical Control Procedure
3. Departmental Improvements:
- Casting: Make Up Air Unit Installed
- Finishing: Various conveyor systems installed
- Core Floor: Baghouse upgraded
- Plant: New mobile equipment purchased
4. Safe Job Procedures Developed and Implemented:
- C001 Safely removing stuck pipe from CM
- C002 Safely operating core machine
- C003 Safely filling core machine sand hopper
- C004 Safely rigging ladles
- C005 Safely operating casting machines
- C006 Safely performing trough man duties
- C007 Safely Performing Ladleman Duties
- C008 Safely Punching MJ Pipe At Casting Machine
- C009 Safely Making Pipe Puller Adjustments
- C011 Safely Accessing The Up & Over Deck
- C012 Safely Adjusting Casting Machine Lift Arms
- C013 Safely Working Around Molten Iron
- F001 Safely Loading Pipe into Oven
- F002 Safely cleaning bull ladle pit
- F003 Safely Rolling Pipe
- F004 Safely Cleaning Cement Line Hopper Car
- F005 Safely cleaning the skip car tracks at the shroud
- F006 Safely Cleaning Cement Line Mixer
- F007 Safely cleaning the skip car tracks
- F008 Safely Bundling Finished Pipe
- F009 Safely Clearing Quencher/Oven Jams
- F010 Safely Tending the Annealing Oven
- F011 Safely Cutting Pipe Samples
- F012 Safely Performing Ball Punch Operation
- F013 Safely Performing Weigh Man Operations
- F014 Safely Performing Bell Grinding Operations
- F015 Safely Performing Pipe Cutoff Operations
- F016 Safely Operating Transfer Cars