PLANNING……. The Key to Doing a Job Right and Safe

OBJECTIVES 1.Discuss what steps are involved in doing a job (task). 2.Identify what knowledge is required to do a job. 3.Discuss how tools and supplies are selected to do a job. 4.Discuss how doing steps 1-3 can lead to doing a job correctly, efficiently, and safely

……SITUATION…… The plumbing shop received a Work Order that reads: “ Please repair plumbing leak in the ceiling of the west end of Bogard Room 212.”

Ways the Plumbing Shop may respond to the work order 1.Plumbers will go to the room, assuming that they have the expertise and materials necessary to locate and fix the problem on their truck; 2.Plumbers will first go to the room, locate the source of the leak, decide the best way to fix the leak and make a list of the tools and supplies needed to fix the leak; 3.Plumbers will first go to the room, locate the source of the leak, determine if they know how to fix that type of leak, and if so, decide the best and SAFEST way to fix the leak, make a list of the tools and supplies needed to fix the leak;

WHICH IS THE BEST CHOICE?

CHOICE #3 IS THE BEST CHOICE BECAUSE IT INVOLVES PLANNING Planning: 1.Give you a method of determining how to do, and what you need to proceeding with project; 2.It involves mentally going through the steps required to accomplish a task; 3.It allows you to evaluate multiple options as to how to accomplish a task; 4.It allows you to collect the expertise, tools and materials to accomplish a task before starting the project 5.It allows you to identify the hazards associated with the task and to determine the most effective way to protect the worker and others from them.

WHAT PART OF PLANNING IS OFTEN NOT CONSIDERED: 1.The worker assumes that they know how and can physically do a project; 2.The worker assumes that the tools they have and will use will function properly; 3.The assume that the supplies they need will fit and are the proper types; 4.That they have, “done projects like this for years” and they assume this one will be no different”; 5.That they have, “done projects like this for years” and they assume know how to do this one it safely”.

ANYONE WITH ANY EXPERIENCE AND TRAINING, KNOW NO TWO PROJECTS ARE EVER THE SAME SO NEVER ASSUME!!!!!! ALWAYS PLAN EVERY PROJECT

REMEMBER…. PLANNING: 1.SAVES YOU TIME; 2.OFTEN SAVES MONEY; 3.LEADS TO BETTER OUTCOMES; AND 4.ALWAYS, REDUCES ACCIDENTS AND INJURIES!!!!