LEADERSHIP TRAINING

LEADERSHIP, SAFETY CULTURE, MACHINE SAFETY, WIRE DRAWING

WHO IS A LEADER?
a person who influences a group of people towards the
achievement of a goal"
Nothing is more important
than Safety, Nothing!
Building a strong safety culture is not a top-down strategy. It
involves every level of the organization. It means being
committed to safety regardless of other concerns in your
business.
WHAT IS A SAFETY CULTURE?
Safety Culture – the product of individual and group values, attitudes,
competencies, and patterns of behavior that determines the commitment to
an organization’s health and safety programs.
Safety Culture determines how individuals in your organization commit to:
 Personal Responsibility for Safety
 Foster Trust in one another
 Enhance and communicate safety concerns
 Adapt and modify behavior based on lessons learned from mistakes
5 STEPS TO IMPROVE MACHINE SAFETY
Safety starts with the right plant culture, which creates awareness and
prioritizes safety over production. Safety can then be improved through this
five-step program:

1. Review and document plant safety requirements

2. Perform a risk assessment on all machines
3. Order and install signs identifying hazards
4. Identify and install new safety components
5. Train operators on new requirements and designs
Be Safe, It’s Required
If your facility doesn’t have safety
requirements, the first step is to create
them. But in most cases, safety
requirements exist and just need to be
reviewed, updated and disseminated to
all plant personnel. Proper plant policy,
standards and requirements go a long
way toward promoting vigilant workers.
Assess Machine Risk
A key to improved safety is to identify, analyze and remove hazards. From a machine
safety and related electrical standpoint, there are many potentially hazardous situations
such as boom, crush, zap, burn and cut. Lots of online information is available regarding
risk assessment, allowing you to make a proper assessment and answer these three
questions:

1. What are the hazards?

2. How can the hazard hurt personnel?
3. How can the hazard be removed or controlled?
I See Safety
With a safety mindset in place, it is
important to identify specific hazards
with signage. Not only do signs remind
workers to think about safety every day,
they also point out hazards that may go
unnoticed. Whether it’s chemical,
electrical, personal protection, personal
awareness or machine safety—all
hazards must be identified.
 Review Designs,
Install Components
Typical safety design and maintenance improvements
include:
• Improve point-of-access control using a light
curtain
• Install two-hand control on assembly equipment
• Upgrade poorly designed guarding
• Replace troublesome guard safety switches
• Improve guard mechanical design and safe-state
monitoring
• Add emergency stop pushbuttons
Remember, some safety systems are disabled by operators because they are poorly designed, and in these cases it’s better to improve
upon the design instead of just restoring the machine to its original state.
Train Operators
Because the plant operators and maintenance techs were involved from the get go, training
on the new safety regime should primarily consist of review. It’s imperative to make sure
everyone in the plant is on board and fully aware of all changes and upgrades, as even the
best designed facilities can become unsafe with untrained or careless workers.

Emergency response training should also be included in these review sessions.

Whether it’s a new corporate push for safety or simply a continuation of existing practices,
actively identifying areas to improve safety and implementing corrective measures is a
never-ending yet necessary process.
WIRE DRAWING - GUARDS
Let’s LOOK at some other hazards
OVERLOOKED –SOMETIMES
• Housekeeping –slip trip and fall items
• Mill scale
• Lubrications -wet and dry
• Tools
• Wire Pieces
• COMBUSTIBLE DUST –if we use soaps made with Stearate(calcium or
sodium)Then dust created in drawing is a ST1 combustible dust.
• Machine Guarding –Moving equipment and nip/pinch points
• Safety Warning Labels –if shown on machine or equipment but not used!!
Before (than) and After (now)
Covered Soap Box to control dust
IF IT IS LABELLED –Than it MUST BE USED!!
• If you have warnings labels on machines –that show required PPE then any
of the PPE shown must be used during operation.

• If a LOTO Point is provided it must be in your LOTO PROGRAM and

equipment specific procedures.

• Like wise any warning labels that are damaged must be replaced.
HAZARD RECOGNITION
LOOK OUT FOR PINCH POINTS
• Maintenance on equipment
• Moving material
• Moving cylinders
• THIS IS JUST A VERY FEW OF WHAT CAN GET YOU
PINCH POINTS ARE EVERYWHERE
MANY WORKPLACE INJURIES OCCUR WHEN A
BODY PART GETS CAUGHT IN A PINCH POINT

A pinch point is a place where it’s possible for a body part to be

caught:
• Between moving machine parts
• Between moving & stationary machine parts
• Between moving parts & materials being processed
 USE MACHINE AND TOOL GUARDS
TO PREVENT PINCH POINT INJURIES
On machines & equipment OSHA requires guards to act as
barriers between body parts & pinch points.

• Never remove or disable a machine guard or use a

machine that has a missing or disabled guard.
• Never reach around, under, or through a guard.
• Report guards that are missing or not working properly.
TURN OFF AND LOCKOUT / TAGOUT EQUIPMENT
BEFORE REPAIRING OR SERVICING

A machine that starts up or moves accidentally can trap a hand or body part in a
pinch point.
• Turn off the machine.
• Lock & tag out the energy controls.
Test jog the system
• Perform the needed work
• Remove the lock & tag before using the equipment.