Recent Safety Improvements
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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