1. Using the Chairman’s Safety Award Winners to Improve Our Safety
Where Are We Now
Using the Chairman’s Safety Award Winners to Improve Our Safety

2. Lifting Device For Headers Packerhead Header Lifting Device – 2012 Overall Winner Rinker Materials – Diamond, OH Submitted – Brent Hillard
The plant was having problems with the pre-tapped holes on the lifting device for headers and created a suspended load hazard to various employees in the area due to the possibility of dropping the top ring ( lbs) while transporting it to the form. The solution was the development of lightweight lifting devices fabricated with stock material at the plant. These devices were sized to fit specific sized top rings.

3. Lifting Device For Headers

4. Lifting Device For Headers

5. Lifting Device For Headers
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Vibrator GENIE Vibrator Installation Device – 2012 Individual Location 2nd Place Winner Rinker Materials – Roanoke, TX Submitted – Ron Bresette
The process of installing vibrators on Reinforced Concrete Box posed potential laceration, sprains, and strain hazards to the employees. The site was challenged to develop a method that reduced these hazards. This is when the Vibrator GENIE was born; slight modifications of an existing piece of equipment has eliminated these hazards when installing vibrators (90-100lbs) on the RCBs.

7. Vibrator GENIE

8. Vibrator GENIE

9. Vibrator GENIE

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Maypole Fall Protection System Removable Fall Protection Pole – 2012 Equipment Related 1st Place Winner Hanson Pipe & Precast – Pelham, AL Submitted – Brian Bass
Since precast forms are typically not designed by the manufacturer to provide fall protection for employees who need to perform work on top of the form itself in early 2012 a team of employees from several Hanson Pipe & Precast locations was assembled to develop and implement a simple to use method of fall protection which would be removable, cost effective and would provide the necessary protection for employees.
This system has been implemented in additional facilities with an initiative to spread to even more facilities in the coming months.

11. Maypole Fall Protection System

12. Maypole Fall Protection System

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Pedestrian Safety Barrier Area Guarding System – 2012 Equipment Related 1st Place Winner Rinker Materials – Middletown, DE Submitted – Tim Meyer
This area guarding system greatly reduces hazards while changing a wire roll, shields employees from potential flash burns, and when wire rolls are not being installed, the system provides a walking path for employees. The guarding also assisted in organization and housekeeping.

14. Pedestrian Safety Barrier

15. Pedestrian Safety Barrier

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Pipe Tipper Pipe Tip Out Device – 2011 Overall Winner Oldcastle Precast – Croydon, PA Submitted – Allen Reed
This entry was created based on a Chairman’s Safety Award entry from a few years back. The system was modified to overcome some of their plant specific challenges of the facility and has since been expanded into use for numerous sizes of pipe including a model that tips 2 smaller diameter pipes at a time.

17. Pipe Tip Out Device

18. Pipe Tip Out Device

19. Pipe Tip Out Device

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RFID Tagging Lifting Device Tagging System – 2011 Individual Location 1st Place Winner Hanson Pipe & Precast – Wauregan, CT Submitted – George Stevens
The plant was inspecting chains, slings, and other lifting devices in-house every month, Inspection sheets were manually filled out and the chains and slings were scattered throughout the plant. After researching for a more efficient and consistent method RFID (radio frequency Identification) chips were installed on each chain, sling and lifting device. This allows an accurate accounting of the devices. Once inspected the inspection information is put into an electronic system so that all of the results are posted on-line along with inspection notes. There was also a reorganization of all chains, slings, and lifting devices by developing designated areas from proper storage when not in use.

21. Lifting Device Tagging System

22. Lifting Device Tagging System

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Platform Extension Platform Extension Add-on – 2011 Individual Location 3rd Place Winner Cretex Concrete Products – Rapid City, SD Submitted – Jeff Ullrich
Due to a hazard identified by employees, Cretex constructed a platform extension that could be added to the existing work platform. The extension was made so that it could be removed when not needed. It also has a flip up toe board in case the mold was to hit the extension during the stripping process. The platform continues to be used and has made the dry cast operator station a safer place to work.

24. Platform Extension

25. Platform Extension

26. OXY Cart Mobile Hot Work Station – 2010 Individual Location 2nd Place Winner Rinker Materials – Miami, FL Submitted – Robert Diard
The plant wanted to have a mobile hot work station that secured the oxygen and acetylene bottles better than a cart and would have a 20 min firewall between the bottles. The possibility of the bottles falling over or off the cart has been eliminated with the caged in area. The workstation also features a convenient hose reel, working bench area with vice and a fire extinguisher.

27. OXY Cart

28. OXY Cart

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Cage Rotation Station Wire Cage Rotating Station – 2010 Equipment Related 2nd Place Winner Rinker Materials – Houston, TX Submitted – Steve Gumina
The plant developed a base frame that facilitates working on wire cages by rotating and maintaining them in place with a locking mechanism. This tool allows the cage to be rolled without moving it anywhere with a minimum force applied to it. This great idea alleviates the hard work of rolling a heavy cage in order to work on it and eliminates unnecessary hazards.

30. Cage Rotation Station

31. Cage Rotation Station

32. Questions Did anyone put the presentations to work? Did it work out?
Was anybody able to take the idea and improve on it?
Did it save time, money or improve efficiency?
Did it reduce or eliminate injuries or lost time?
Are there suggestions for increasing the participation in the program?
What should we do for the future to enable success?

33. “The safety success in your plant, as well as our industry, depends on your good ideas.  Be willing to submit them so we can all benefit”