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Safety Is Easy
Journal American Water Works Association ( IF 0.7 ) Pub Date : 2020-09-02 , DOI: 10.1002/awwa.1570
Kenneth L. Mercer

Health and safety are top of mind these days; in fact, one of my first columns of 2020 was titled “Health Is Hard.” But while the connections between human health and drinking water seem complex to me, safety seems pretty straightforward. The first step to not being injured is knowing that you can be injured. Accidents are usually preventable—just stay alert, and if you see something unsafe, do something about it immediately. Make sure your equipment is in good condition and safe to operate, and plan safety in advance and follow instructions.

In addition to being alert to challenges from the COVID‐19 pandemic, those in the water industry need to be careful when working in extreme temperatures and weather events, handling chemicals at the plant or in the lab, and crawling in confined spaces with power tools. Lockout/tagout, cutting, climbing, digging, driving, and for those on the front lines, the threats of workplace dangers are compounded by every public interaction.

AWWA advocates that employers in the water industry fully adopt effective health, safety, and environmental programs developed according to established risk factors and regulatory compliance. Moving forward, it will be interesting to see risk and regulations change over the coming years in response to COVID‐19, but to this end, AWWA provides a range of resources and is fully committed to supporting its members—and the entire water industry—as we navigate these trying times together.

For example, because we all need to dress for safety on and off the job, AWWA's Let's Talk Safety comes with the timely chapter “PPE— A Workplace Fashion Statement.“ Manual M3, Safety Management for Utilities, can help when developing a health and safety program, and the committees working on the update are certainly working overtime to collect today's lessons learned for tomorrow's guidance. The Safety First videos provide how‐to guidance for those who need hands‐on training, and these can now be streamed online with a subscription.

We all seek an injury‐free work environment, but safety concerns that used to appear only during extreme tasks are now everyday occurrences. However, unlike the job we do in our professions, the job of getting through a pandemic doesn't pay anything. If fighting this virus costs us only good hygiene practices and the discomfort of wearing masks and face shields until the pandemic is behind us, it's not that expensive, and certainly cheaper than the alternative. If we work together, hopefully we can avoid expensive shutdowns and return our focus to keeping the water industry a safe place to work.

This month's Journal AWWA features articles on water distribution system modeling, sizing meters and service lines, and water reuse, all topics that require having safety in mind. If you are interested in submitting an article, please contact me at journaleditor@awwa.org.



中文翻译:

安全容易

如今,健康与安全已成为重中之重。实际上,我在2020年的第一篇专栏文章的标题为“健康难”。但是,尽管对我而言,人类健康与饮用水之间的联系似乎很复杂,但是安全性似乎非常简单。不受伤的第一步是知道自己会受伤。事故通常是可以预防的-保持警惕,如果发现不安全的地方,请立即采取措施。确保设备状况良好且可以安全操作,并事先计划安全并遵循说明。

除了警惕COVID-19大流行带来的挑战外,水行业的人员在极端温度和天气事件中工作,在工厂或实验室中处理化学药品以及使用电动工具在密闭空间爬行时也要小心。封锁/挂牌,砍伐,攀爬,挖掘,驾驶,以及对于前线人员来说,每一次公众互动都会加剧工作场所危险的威胁。

AWWA提倡自来水行业的雇主完全采用根据既定的风险因素和法规要求制定的有效的健康,安全和环境计划。展望未来,有趣的是,随着COVID-19的出现,未来几年风险和法规将发生变化,但是为此,AWWA提供了一系列资源,并全力支持其成员以及整个水行业。当我们一起浏览这些艰难时期时。

例如,由于我们所有人都需要着装以确保上班和下班时的安全,因此AWWA的“让我们聊聊安全”随附了及时的“ PPE-工作场所时尚宣言”一章。手册M3,《公用事业安全管理》可以帮助建立健康和安全计划以及负责更新的委员会肯定都在加班,以收集今天的经验教训,以作为明天的指导。Safety First视频为需要动手培训的人员提供了操作指南,现在可以通过订阅在线观看这些内容。

我们都在寻求无伤害的工作环境,但是以前只在极端任务期间出现的安全隐患现在每天都在发生。但是,与我们在专业中所做的工作不同,通过大流行进行的工作不会付出任何代价。如果与这种病毒作斗争仅使我们牺牲良好的卫生习惯,以及在大流行消失之前戴着口罩和面罩的不适感,它就不那么昂贵,而且肯定比其他方法便宜。如果我们一起工作,希望我们能够避免代价高昂的停工,并将我们的重心转移到使水工业成为安全的工作场所。

本月的《 AWWA杂志》刊登了有关配水系统建模,计量表和服务线尺寸以及回用水的文章,所有这些主题都需要牢记安全性。如果您有兴趣提交文章,请通过journaleditor@awwa.org与我联系。

更新日期:2020-09-02
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