Month: August 2018

Safety at work

Suva is active in prevention, insurance and rehabilitation. In terms of workplace safety, she is relying on her vision to save 250 lives in ten years. It is based on the application of vital roles in ensuring companies.

The vital roles of the Suva, if applied, prevent 60% of serious or fatal occupational accidents. For Philippe, head of the Health and Safety Prevention Department. “these rules are an excellent foundation. But when a company aims for the goal of zero accidents and zero occupational diseases, it is essential to expand them, to make them live, and to turn them into a true culture of safety. ”

Zero risk

Marissa is one of the largest construction companies in Switzerland. A copy of health and safety at the workplace, she won the Suva Safety Award in 2012. The objective zeroes accidents? Intermediate landing for her. “The ultimate goal should be zero risk,” continues Philippe, giving his recipe for success: Effective prevention must be carried out, experienced by the management of the company and supported by a team that commits daily. Everyone has to pull the same rope. ”

The construction company has put in place very strict and unavoidable security measures on the building sites: badge entrance door, mandatory morning warm-up, ladder replacement by nacelles, respect of vital rules, mandatory wearing of helmets, glasses, hearing protection, gloves, reflective vest and reinforced shoes for everyone present. Personal protective equipment is of course offered by the company. “But, beware, this is not a gift, a lot of material to use without exception!”

Daily safety

Health and Safety Prevention manager also noticed a change in the mentality of the “Companions”, the employees on the building sites. “The measures advocated have not always had a resounding reception. We must not fool ourselves. But in recent years, security is no longer suffered at home. She is lived. It’s part of everyday life. “Anise, a trainee with the construction company. Agrees:” I must admit that I have never had a safety-conscious companion “.

“Over the years, we have realized that effective prevention does not prevent effective work, quite the contrary,” insists Philippe. “To work safely, you have to plan, prepare. There must be no room for improvisation. “And when the work is organized and secure, motivation, productivity and satisfaction increase together.

Safety is not a choice and is no longer a duty. It has become a culture experienced at all levels of the company, from director to apprentice. No job deserves to risk one’s life. And it is important for workers to wear safety clothing and use reflective materials in their work place.

2019 Construction Site: 3rd Inspection Mission Begins

The experts of the Confederation of African Football yesterday visited all the sport facilities of the two competition sites of the Cameroonian capital. Everyone wore a helmet and a vest with reflective material.

After the second visit from 19 to 22 March, the experts of the Confederation of African Football are back in the various competition venues of the city of Yaoundé. At midday, the delegation led by Antony, deputy general secretary of the Caf, arrived at the Olembe stadium.

Each with a protective helmet and a fluorescent reflective vest, the experts of the Caf have toured the owner of the various playgrounds. It is important to wear safety clothing and use safety elements when visiting in the construction site.

Far from the press, the inspectors were able to see the progress of the work. According to testimonies collected on the spot, these last ones would have been impressed by the evolution during the last five months. From the top of the second floor of the presidential platform whose paving and assembly of the steel structure are being finished, they noted the end of the structural work in the South, North and East stands.

During the meeting, they had an idea of the future comfort of the spectators by sitting on the five types of seats that will be mounted in the different stands.

In the presence of the Minister of Sports and Physical Education, and the president of the sites of the city of Yaoundé, Naseri Paul Bea, the controllers of the Caf were able to identify the first mounted parts of the metal roof of the stadium.

Elements that are in their second week of editing. Launched last May 31, work on the stadiums starts the final straight. Initially scheduled for mid-November, the completion of work on the two training grounds is announced for the next month at the end of turf transplanting operations.

But before, operations of setting up draining layers will be completed on August 20th. On delivery time, the group Puccini Cameroon has maintained the date of 28 December 2018.

After Yaoundé, yesterday, the inspection mission was heading for Gerona today. Until next Sunday, she will visit the different sites of the next CAN 2019.

Cyclist killed in Gironde

Sunday night a cyclist was killed on the RD651. The motorist who knocked him down had fled. He was identified Monday and placed in custody on Tuesday morning.

Sunday night, between 21h and 21h30, a cyclist who was traveling on the RD651 was mortally mowed by a car. This 47-year-old Franco-German teacher residing in La Manche was in the midst of a cycle tour in the department. He was wearing a reflective vest, a helmet and a light on his bike.

For some unknown reason, a motorist hit him from behind and was thrown into the ditch.

The report of a resident identified the driver

The gendarmes who had called for witnesses found the driver 24 hours after the accident. On Monday, a resident of Saucats called the gendarmerie because she noticed that her neighbor’s car was damaged and corresponded in all respects to the description given by the investigators.

The policemen knocked on the door of the owner of the dark-colored Peugeot who had lost a rearview mirror at the scene of the collision. They seized the vehicle and carried out technical and scientific police checks to make sure it was the car in question.

The owner of the vehicle, intoxicated at the time of his arrest, was placed in a sobering cell in the premises of the Brigade Léognan. This Tuesday morning, he was subject to a measure of custody that is prolonged.

Family trip by bike in Lower Austria

Nice weather, vacation and holiday season – ideal conditions to make a trip by bike. Whether alone, as a couple or with the whole family: exploring Lower Austria with all its peculiarities on the bike is fun and offers enjoyment for all the senses. It should be well prepared for the cycling trip to be a complete success.

Being on the road means doing something for one’s own health and protecting the climate and the environment. In addition, smart means of transport are an answer to lack of space and noise in cities. “On the one hand, the bike is therefore the perfect companion for everyday life, but on the other hand it is becoming increasingly popular and used in tourism too. Excursions by bike are also a real insider tip for the discovery of the beautiful Lower Austrian landscapes. “reveals LH Deputy Stephan.

Lower Austria’s diversity of natural and cultural landscapes makes Lower Austria particularly attractive for cyclists. The signposted cycle route network in this country is a stately 4,200 kilometers. In addition to the varied topography, it is above all the bike-friendly climate that makes excursions so pleasant.

“Important for a relaxing bike ride is a good preparation. In addition to careful planning with regard to the level of difficulty of the route and accommodation options, route planners and maps in particular should not be missing. “said Herbert, Managing Director of Energy and Environment Agency NÖ. Before you start, check the bike for a short while: inflate wheels, check lights and reflective vests, test and service brakes, gear shift and chain.

For longer cycling trips, it is recommended to use waterproof bicycle bags that can accommodate light breathable clothing, rain cover, breakdown tools and food. It is also important that the bike is roadworthy on the road. In addition to a white headlight and a white reflector at the front of the bike, the right equipment includes a bicycle bell, working brakes, a red tail light and a red rear reflector at the rear, yellow reflectors on the pedals and two yellow or white reflectors on the sides of the bike. And the cyclists also have to wear reflective clothing with reflective fabric.

For children up to the twelfth year of age, there is a helmet requirement in Austria. But even after the head protection is useful and recommended. A good helmet complies with the standard DIN EN 1078 for adults or child helmets of the standard DIN EN 1080 and has a hard outer shell and reflective materials. It is very important to buy a helmet that fits really well – even when the cap is open and the head is tilted forward and slightly shaken.

For cycling trips in Lower Austria, there are also around 900 textbooks at around 200 stations in 76 communities. The next bike offer is ideal for combining with public transport, as there are 49 stations directly at train stations in Lower Austria. If you have a Lower Austria Card, you can also travel for a whole day with a next bike for free.

23 ads at school walk training in Ziebach

The horror for every mom: The children stand obediently at the crosswalk, wait, the car stops, the car behind them too, the children go, suddenly both vehicles overtake a third car from behind – regardless of pedestrians or crosswalks. Incidentally, this scene actually happened in the middle of Ziebach. But it was not Mama who watched, but the police. Kids even wore yellow safety vests with reflective materials – clearly visible from a distance as a school walk training.

“I was shocked”. Admits frankly traffic cop Franz Mayer. “This has never happened to me during school-leaving training for preschool children.”  the kindergartens are always allowed to cross the crosswalk with their hi vis vests. Franz Mayer waits at the edge, on the other side she receives an educator.

Many drivers do not follow the traffic rules

“We do this training every year with kindergartens in the Inn valley,” explains Mayer, who does this together with his colleague Roland Minter. But this year, the two noticed especially that many drivers do not follow the traffic rules. Because the stating: If a pedestrian waits at a zebra crossing, the car must hold compellingly.

If it drives anyway, it costs 80 Euros and a point in Flensburg. A total of 23 motorists alone during the school exercise disregarded this rule and took the children’s right of way.

Duisburg fire department gets new service clothes

The city is investing two million Euros in the new firefighter’s uniform. The outfit is lighter and better equipped.

It is sand-colored, around 500 grams, and thus noticeably lighter than its predecessor and it is even better equipped: The fire department Duisburg has presented their new safety clothing. The approximately 1000 forces of the professional fire brigade and the volunteer fire department are to be dressed in the coming months gradually with it. In the end, the city will have paid around two million Euros for the complete exchange. But this is a worthwhile investment, said fire brigade chief Oliver Titman: “This latest generation of protective clothing takes us far ahead.”

Art mist swells out of the access area to the fire station in Alt-Holmberg. This fashion show ambience is desired. Because out of the smoke five firefighters enter the open air. Four of them introduce their new safety gear to visitors, including OB Siren Link. Michael, Head of Technical Services and Logistics at the Fire Brigade, introduces the differences between precursor and successor model point by point.

The color change from dark blue to sand-ocher first becomes apparent. “The lighter reflective tape ensures better visibility of colleagues in action,” explains Michael. In addition, the jacket has a sewn-on rescue handle, on which a college can be pulled away from a dangerous spot in case of injury”, describes the equipment expert.

The new reflective jacket is significantly shorter than the original outfit that has been used over the past 20 years. “It is much more comfortable to wear,” Makita describes her impressions. She has been with the volunteer fire department for two years, is currently undergoing training as a professional firefighter and belongs to those who show visitors the new clothing.

Like all of her colleagues, Makita also had to go to a fitting in order to adopt the new wardrobe to the respective body measurements. With two of these uniforms, every firefighter force in Duisburg should be equipped at the end. Per copy about 900 Euros are due, says Michael. “So the new one is not more expensive than the old equipment.” After the Europe-wide invitation to tender, the offers were examined in more detail by five manufacturers. “We tested everything thoroughly,” emphasizes fire brigade chief Titman. Ultimately, the Swiss company was awarded the contract.

Thanks to a sewn-in chip, clothes of Christophe and Sebastian (both 33) are now personalized. The two twins from Oberhausen have been working for ten or nine years with the local fire department. Her first impression of wearing is also positive.

With these accessories, you are shining in the dark

Did you ever get scared while driving these days, when suddenly a pedestrian stood on the roadside you had not seen before? A situation that occurs on the streets every day during the winter months. And that often enough lead to accidents. But there is a pleasing trend: Flashing on the sidewalks and streets of the republic is becoming more and more frequent.

“We can confirm this trend. That’s definitely the case,” says Michael of the traffic accident prevention police in Dusseldorf. “And of course it makes sense because you are seen so much earlier.” Especially cyclists and scooter riders are increasingly traveling with safety vests.

The expert explains: If the spotlight falls on normal clothing. It is only visible from a distance of 30 to 40 meters. “With reflective clothing, it’s 140 to 150 meters, so you’ll be recognized in the spotlight up to five times as early.” And the sooner drivers see one, the better for everyone involved. How bad the visibility can be, shows this video of the Austrian Automobile Club ÖAMTC in a frightening and informative way:

Anyone looking for it soon realizes that there are plenty of light products and reflective clothing for people and animals in the trade. Many accessories are now even really stylish. Earlier, cyclists could choose whether to buy a safety vest in neon yellow or bright orange, and today there are reflective caps, glowing waist and waist straps to accentuate the sporty outfit, or cling and LED bands in all sorts of colors, variations and styles Wish even patterned. Who wants to be an eye-catcher in the dark, can even provide his shoes with shining shoelaces in pink, blue or green.

The products have another thing in common: many are doubly useful. You need a bike lock anyway – why not buy the reflective one then? Even the dog collar when going for a walk must be. If you can additionally protect the quadruped by flashing and lighting, that is an argument for many owners. Many parents may also find the idea of a reflective umbrella for children good: during the day it is light gray, but in the dark it light up when a car headlight illuminates it.

Today it is much cheaper than before to make clothes with reflective elements, which add fuel to the trend. “There are more and more often cheap products to buy, also and especially at the discount stores,” says Axel from BTE trade association textile. For children, in jackets, trousers and shoes, reflective fabrics are often seen from the outset. And last but not least, police, cities and associations are constantly launching traffic visibility campaigns, raising awareness of this issue.

Wear the reflective vest- be seen!

From a distance of 140 meters instead of 25 meters, a child is seen in the dark when wearing the bright yellow safety vest. As a result, it is much better protected against accidents in road traffic.

And because they cannot yet assess danger as well as the larger students, the 71 new students at the Park School got the gaudy West of the ADAC Foundation “Yellow Angel” again this year.

The fourth graders (4b), with their class teacher Christa Schreyer and Ralf Salish (traffic educator of the PI 6), wooed convincing slogans to really attract the vest. The 4b convincingly explained the first years – first in the form of a “poem” – the benefits of the protective vest with its wide, orange reflective tapes and lighting effect of the neon yellow color. Enthusiastically, big ones distributed by the vest to the proud little ones and helped them get dressed.

And that should consider the motorists:

First graders are perceived by other road users late or not at all. Due to insufficient overview, children cannot sufficiently recognize and assess many dangerous situations.

Because children are not yet able to localize the sounds of their environment well, they are also disadvantaged in traffic. Children cannot react so fast. Therefore, they often lack the necessary time to stop or dodge in risky situations. So it is important to wear vest with reflective materials.

Municipality of Rancagua celebrates World Bicycle Day

As part of this activity, 500 reflective vests were delivered free of charge to cyclists to improve their safety conditions.

The Day of the bicycle is celebrated all over the world and Rancagua was not the exception. The purpose of this data is to promote this alternative means of transport, economic and ecological, and to draw attention to the rights and duties of cyclists.

That is why in the framework of this celebration, in five strategic points of the city, municipal officials gave free 500 reflective vests with reflective tapes to all cyclists who walked from 7 to 8.30 in the morning, by bike lanes, as an element to promote safety.

Those who at that time were going to their places of work or schools, were grateful for this initiative that will undoubtedly provide greater security in their daily trips.

Rancagua has 54 km of cycle paths in the city, making it the largest interconnected network in the entire country, so the municipality has taken the commitment to deliver a secure network, interconnected so that all pedestrians who choose this means of mobilization can use them more calmly and safely.

For Raimondi, director of SECPLAC, “this activity was a success, since we have been pleasantly satisfied, we have confirmed that the cyclists are using our bicycle lanes and are becoming more and more concerned about their safety. Our challenge is to advance in this area, promote good practices and contribute to have a better culture around the use of the bicycle. “he said.

For its part, the cyclists who traveled this morning appreciated this delivery and the concern of the municipality. “It will help me a lot in my transfers. Now I can see the motorists and I can be calmer when I leave the house early to work at the center,” said José.

Meanwhile, another beneficiary highlighted how useful it is to have reflective materials on the bike. ” I thank the municipality for caring about us. “he said.

The bicycle is an alternative means of economic and ecological locomotion, beneficial for health and respectful with the environment, but it is necessary to raise awareness about the culture around it, with simple advice you can have a better coexistence and safety: always use helmet, reflective clothing, white front light, red rear light, respect the pedestrian and make use of the roads enabled for their transit.

When sewage pipe was broke

In the afternoon, there was a rupture of a sewage pipe at the intersection of the streets in 19 and 104, the workers wore safety clothing immediately went to the personal place of the area of Urban Sanitation to begin with the tasks of repair of the problem.

The fault, which probably originated due to the aging of the conduit that is about 40 years old, occurred in a pipeline of the primary impulse network that collects the liquids pumped by 4 of the largest lifting stations of the city and undertakes in The maximum sewer that conducts the liquids to the Effluent Treatment Plant.

Before the fissure of the pipe the liquid began to flow cracking the asphalt and finally sprouting to the surface. Before this, we proceeded to decompress the pipe diverting the liquids by other ways, to relieve the pipeline and get it to work with less pressure to avoid spilling liquids by the road.

The sector that suffered the crack of the asphalt was fenced with a fence, reflective tape and indicator signs and it will remain that way during the night because to carry out the works to correct the inconvenience it is necessary the sunlight, since it is an area of many interferences in the one that join a branch of the aqueduct, sewer collectors, underground conductors and a pluvial pipe.

First thing in the morning the workers who wore reflective vests will begin to work to repair the sewage pipe.