OSC Health & Safety Goals, Strategy and Methods:
- Goals:
- Improved DOT employee health and safety; decreased accidents, injuries and lost time
- Strategy:
- Raise employee awareness of healthy lifestyles and safe practices through exemplary leadership, education, training and personal accountability
- Tools/Methods:
- New Employee Orientation - emphasize health & safety expectations and responsibilities
- Performance Evaluation - stress accountability of employees and supervisors
- Training - reinforce good health & safety practices
- Auditing - check compliance
- Communication - provide information through bulletin boards, health & safety "Alerts", best practices, regulatory updates, wellness "fairs", Web site, etc.
- Programs - detail and standardize requirements
- Risk Assessment - determine employee exposure to adverse work conditions
Safety Days
LGC Strength Test Demo at District 2 Safety Day
OSC's Table at the District 2 Safety Day Safety Days provide NHDOT district personnel with a venue to not only share innovations, but also an opportunity to receive pertinent training to improve the incorporation of safety into everyday activities.
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Plow Rally
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District Safety Innovations Safety innovation prizes are awarded to those individuals or groups that invent new and innovates methods or tools to assist in performing daily tasks in a safer manner. This year's winners were:
This tool is used to relieve the pressure in the hydraulic system of spreaders when they are removed from the trucks. When the oil in the system expands due to temperature increases, there is no place for the oil to expand to. This results in damage to hydraulic motor seals and oil spilling onto the ground. These units save approximately $350 in damaged motors and are good for the environment.
This tool was developed to safely stir a large quantity of paint and pour from a large quantity container into small quantity containers. The tool allow this to be done without having to lift the large container.
The guardrail post puller allows for the safe extraction of broken guardrail posts from the ground. Pictured here is Ben Crosby.
District Two : This plastic beaver pipe is designed to control and regulate water flow and prevents beavers from building dams inside or in front of culvert pipes.
Appropriately named, this invention is used to safely install or remove catch basin frames. |
The Plow Rally provides another venue for the sharing of safety information and innovations, but also presents the opportunity for NHDOT personnel to share and learn plow handling techniques. 
Second Place: 
District Six :OSC Health & Safety Links of Interest: