EnviroMed has performed OSHA Audits on the daily work activities conducted by the employees while being accompanied by department heads to each activity and work site. EnviroMed took notes, made observations, and recommended improvements on safety when conducting work activities.
The activities included excavation and trenching, the use of jackhammers, saws, demolition saws, chainsaws, construction equipment such as backhoes, dump trucks, and vacuum trucks used to clean out manholes, confined space entry, an audit of the MSDS Sheets, how combustible and flammable materials are stored, electrical safety, fall protection, fire safety when welding or cutting into metal that creates hot slag, lockout tagout, respiratory protection use, hearing protection, and hazard communication.
During the field visits EnviroMed recommended the use of machine guarding on all rotary equipment and recommended that no machine guards be removed from rotating devices and equipment.
EnviroMed observed compressed gas tanks used to cut steel that were not tied off, laid on their side, and had no protective gage cap when moved. The tanks would be rolled to the work activity instead of being carted and tied during transportation. With EnviroMed’s recommendation this activity stopped.
The workers while using the vacuum truck were not wearing hearing protection so EnviroMed with the use of a dosimeter measured the noise level when the vacuum truck was being operated and measured the noise level at 100dBa. This immediately put into action the use of hearing protection by employees when around the vacuum truck.
EnviroMed also inspected lanyards and fall protection devices used by the employees to assure that the lanyard and all its devices were not damaged.
EnviroMed also observed trenching and shoring activities. EnviroMed did observe that employees were using the proper personal protection while working in a trench greater than five feet deep. This included two ways of entering and exiting the trench and workers working inside the steel trench box. Air monitoring was also being conducted by using a 4-Gas Meter that read oxygen level, lower explosive limit, hydrogen sulfide, and carbon monoxide.
During EnviroMed Services OSHA Safety Audit it was observed that the City of Danbury did not have written programs and procedures for their employees, which in turn is an OSHA violation. Therefore, EnviroMed Services wrote the following programs, and were reviewed by the City of Danbury Department Heads and accepted with no comment or corrections made.
The programs are the following:
All of the above OSHA Safety Programs were accompanied with checklists for each program as a quick resource for City of Danbury employees and supervisors and assure that safety precautions were and will be used in the daily work activities.
EnviroMed Services also performed the following training sessions for the City of Danbury:
Inspection of the Arch area for potential asbestos containing materials, potential lead-based paint, and other hazardous materials was completed by EnviroMed. A sampling plan was proposed by EnviroMed to NYCDOT for the following concerns: sample ceiling plaster (two layers of plaster), sample pipe insulation, inspect and sample the office partitions and doors for asbestos, test the paint for lead, sample the dust via bulk samples and analyze for asbestos and lead, perform TCLP sampling and analysis for building debris prior to disposal, and characterize the liquid wastes in storage. Personal sampling during the work was recommended for lead in air, asbestos in air and total particulate.
Full detailsEnviroMed has provided numerous Industrial Hygiene Services for Covidien Surgical Devices (formerly US Surgical) in order to aid them in ensuring a safe work place for their employees, as well as compliance with OSHA regulations. EnviroMed has provided employee exposure monitoring for ethylene oxide, xylene, formaldehyde, respirable particulates, tetrachloroethylene, asbestos, and other analytes.
Working with Covidien to review the chemicals and processes they utilize for manufacturing and sterilization, EnviroMed is able to provide monitoring services that ensure employee safety, and regulatory compliance, for a safe work environment at their facilities.
Full detailsEnviroMed Services provides safety training based on OSHA regulations to the Wallingford Department of Public Works facilities and the Electric Division facilities. EnviroMed Services provides OSHA training programs for the Wallingford Electric Division for the past 10 years to meet their responsibility under OSHA regulations. EnviroMed Services personnel conducted an audit of town’s public utility maintenance and distribution system and work crew. EnviroMed Services personnel visited sites, which included observing daily activities that were conducted for the work crew, log our observations, have any dangerous work habits changed and abated. Once EnviroMed Services site visit and observation were completed our client asked us to write actual OSHA safety programs for the city to follow. The city at the time had no such programs and was in need of such programs. EnviroMed wrote the following OSHA Safety Programs that are being used by this client today:
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