Saturday, February 10, 2024
PRE-TASK CARDS AND CHALLENGING
Always be familiar as possible and alert at all times to conditions and work processes in surrounding areas and with the presence of other workers and equipment so that you can foresee and avoid possible dangers. Each employee shall receive a daily task briefing from their supervisors or lead person. During this task briefing, the supervisor or lead person will read from the task JHA. Each employee will fill out their pre-task card based on the discussion during the task briefing. Do not fill out your pre-task cards before the briefing. Employees should add to the discussion to ensure all hazards have been identified. Discuss what you have seen, offer advice, talk about hazards and mitigations.
Each employee must have their pre-task card on their person throughout the shift. It needs to be the pre-task card filled out at the beginning of that shift and dated correctly. Throughout the shift you will need to refer to this pre-task card by challenging. If ANY person enters your work area that was not a part of your Job Hazard Analysis training at the beginning of the shift, the first person that sees them enter area, must stop them, let them know that you need to go over the hazards in the area with them, and then read your Pre-task card to them and have them initial the Pre-task card.
Some things NOT to do:
- Don't ask them if they know the hazards in the area. [ You simply and politely let them know you need to go over the hazards in the area]
- Don't avoid challenging them if they are management or the general contractor or a site visitor or project owner [You need to challenge management, general superintendents, visitors and project owners. You will most likely see some of these people more than once a shift. If you know you have challenged them earlier in the shift, you don't have to do it again for the rest of the shift. If you see them the next day, then you would challenge them again.]
- Don't have the entire team in the area challenge them [The first person to see them challenges them.]
- Don't be shy. We are all adults and every one of us is important. Just speak up and challenge them. It will help keep them safe and keep you safe.
(EXCEPTION FOR CONSTRUCTION SITES ONLY: Members of other trades that are present on the site and are in the work areas regularly do not need to be challenged. This exception does not apply to the general contractors, superintendents and supervisors.)
NOTE AND REPEAT FOR CLARIFICATION: The pre task card is not a replacement for the JHA. A JHA and Install Plan should be developed for each task and the supervisor or lead man for the team should review the JHA and Install plan with the crew each day before the start of the work. The crew should fill out their pre-task cards while the supervisor is reading the JHA. The JHA and Install plan should be in the work area with the crew during the work. The JHA and Install plan should be completed using iAuditor and it is acceptable to email them to the crew so that they have them on their person in their smart phones. Challenging helps remind each of us how important safety is and brings our focus back to safety periodically throughout the shift. It is another way to keep each other safe and thinking about safety.
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