Vivi's Safety Corner - February 2011

by: ESD Safety Coordinator Vivi Fissekidou (x5610)

ESD JHA  and training completion 96%, we can reach 100%.

Lessons Learned:
Be careful when sitting or standing up from a chair.  The following first aid incidents were reported at LBNL:
(i) An employee fell to the uncarpeted wood-over- concrete floor onto the elbow while attempting to sit in the conference room chair. The chair rolled backward away from the employee’s fixed position due to a slight bump by the employee’s body while in the process of sitting down. The chairs roll easily to accommodate room configuration flexibility in this multi-use conference facility.

(ii) A standard 5 caster desk chair flipped out from under the employee while in the process of standing up from the chair. With body weight on the front edge of the chair pan and two of the casters aligned with the front edge of the chair pan, the force applied when standing caused the back three casters to leave the floor and the two front casters to skate backward out from under the chair. The chair and employee fell to the floor.

Report  safety concerns to your supervisor and/or safety coordinator (X5610). Report  near misses at: https://esd.lbl.gov/feedback/

Make safety part of your every day  life. Take First Aid and CPR training:

EHS0116 - First Aid Safety, is being offered on the following dates:
•Date                 Time                      Location
•3/15/2011       01:00 - 04:00      26 - 124
•4/5/2011         01:00 - 04:00      26 - 124
•4/19/2011       09:00 - 12:00      26 - 124
•5/3/2011         01:00 - 04:00      26 - 124
•5/19/2011       09:00 - 12:00       26 – 124

EHS0123 - Adult CPR, is being offered on the following dates:
•Date                Time                     Location
•3/15/2011      10:00 - 12:00      26 - 124
•4/5/2011        10:00 - 12:00      26 - 124
•4/19/2011      01:00 - 03:00      26 - 124
•5/3/2011        10:00 - 12:00      26 - 124
•5/19/2011      01:00 - 03:00      26 - 124