Safety Issues Encountered Working at Facility Services
posted on 6 January 2012 | posted in
Construction and Industrial
A facility services job is a maintenance job, and as such you encounter many safety hazards, and need to ensure you're wearing proper ppe workwear. My job focused on the grounds, so everyday I worked with lawn mowers, weed eaters, water trucks and a variety of other power tools. There are the obvious dangers, such as blades moving at high speeds, heavy equipment possibly falling on you, and then there are the dangers that are not so obvious. The most pervasive danger when it comes to any labor type work is dehydration. It is very important to keep yourself hydrated, and to accomplish that we had to take a water break every half hour, which was nothing more than getting some water to prevent dehydration. It was also regulation to wear a pair of safety goggles. This helped protect from flying debris. Along with the goggles, we were all assigned an orange shirt to provide maximum visibility to vehicles.
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