In this activity you will take on the roll of the new Director of Safety and Health for AirCon, Inc. You will complete a two-part activity based on the following case information:

You are the new Director of Safety and Health for AirCon, Inc. AirCon, Inc. is a construction company that specializes in airport construction projects. Projects include construction of runways, terminals, parking structures, etc. Your company is currently headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, but the company performs construction projects throughout the United States. Currently, there are 6 construction projects underway. You are responsible for safety for each of those projects.

Instructions

This activity consists of a two part assignment. Please select the links below for detailed instructions to complete the following:

1. Part 1 – you will develop a ‘Toolbox Talk’
   Note: Toolbox talks should be submitted in Microsoft Word®, Microsoft PowerPoint®, or as a PDF document if you use an alternate software program, such as Publisher. Be creative. The toolbox talks do not have to be in APA format. However, as this is still an academic assignment, provide a separate reference page identifying all sources of information used for this assignment using current APA reference format.

Tool BOX talk instruction

You are the new Director of Safety and Health for AirCon, Inc. AirCon,, Inc. is a construction company that specializes in airport construction projects. Projects include construction of runways, terminals, parking structures, etc. Your company is currently headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, but the company performs construction projects throughout the United States. Currently, there are 6 construction projects underway. You are responsible for safety for each of those projects. Complete the following activities based upon this case information.

You have decided to implement daily briefings or “toolbox” talks to be completed by your project managers. The project managers will meet with all the workers at the start of the shift each day to hold these daily talks with their workers. These are brief meetings, not to last more than 10 minutes, but are planned to address important safety issues associated with work operations. As part of this program, you are responsible for developing and disseminating the toolbox talks that are conducted by the project managers. For sample toolbox talks, view the Cat Toolbox Talks link below. However, do not replicate this information verbatim. Yours should be better!

Caterpillar Toolbox Talks: (Links to an external site.)

1. Develop a toolbox talk which highlights hazards associated with vibration associated with hand and powered tools. The toolbox talk should also highlight recommended proper procedures and controls for reducing vibration associated with hand and powered tools.
2. Develop a toolbox talk which highlights hazards associated with noise associated with powered tools. The toolbox talk should also highlight recommended procedures and controls for reducing noise exposures when working with powered tools.
3. Develop a toolbox talk which highlights hazards associated with vibration associated with heavy equipment operations. The toolbox talk should also highlight recommended procedures and controls for reducing exposures to vibration.

Note: Toolbox talks should be submitted in Microsoft Word®, Microsoft PowerPoint®, or as a PDF document if you use an alternate software program, such as Publisher. Be creative. The toolbox talks do not have to be in APA format. However, as this is still an academic assignment, provide a separate reference page identifying all sources of information used for this assignment using current APA reference format.

1. Part 2 – you will write up an email reply to the President of AirCon, Mr. George Jetson
   This submission will be a Microsoft Word file in email/letter format. Be sure to use citations and provide a reference list in APA format.

You will reply to the following email

AirCon, Inc. management may submit a quote for a job which involves the complete renovation of an airport terminal at City International Airport. The requirements for the contract indicate that work is to be limited to evenings and nights and no weekends to reduce interference with current terminal operations. Work would be planned from 6:30 p.m. to 6:30 a.m. Mondays – Thursdays. Thus, workers will be working 4 – 12 hour shifts during evenings and nights. Mr. George Jetson, President of AirCon, Inc., sent you the following email message:

Good morning,

As you know, we may submit a quote for the renovation job at City International Airport. The work will have to be completed during evenings and nights from 6:30 p.m. to 6:30 a.m. We will require the workers to work 4-12 hour shifts, Monday – Thursday. In our meeting this morning, we feel that our current workforce will be able to complete this work, without any complications, even though the job will require them to work during the evenings and nights. We are sure the workers will appreciate the overtime and more time at home on the weekends. Our expected time frame for completing this job is 10 months. We expect our crew from Atlanta to complete this work as they are only 2 ½ hours away from a nearby city. The crews should plan to leave by 3:30 p.m. each Monday in order to arrive at City International Airport by start time of 6:30 p.m. On Friday mornings, the crews will be expected to return home to Atlanta. We will provide hotel rooms for the workers at City Hotel, near the airport. We will have rooms blocked for the workers to use to rest on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays since the workers will be traveling home Friday morning.

We have a dedicated workforce and I know that they will be anxious to start this job and will be looking forward to the overtime pay. As the safety professional, we did want to ask your opinion about this job before we quote it. Do you have any concerns? If so, what are they and how do you suggest we address those concerns. Also, Judy Jetson, VP of Human Resources said she was somewhat concerned about the long shifts. I know our workers and they don’t get tired! Should we be concerned about these long shifts? Judy also wanted to know if there were issues with OSHA and these long shifts. If not, we should be good, right?

A) Draft an email response to Mr. George Jetson. Be sure to answer his questions. Be sure to support your responses with scholarly literature and the content from the course module, including the readings and the multimedia information. The submission does not have to be an APA formatted paper, but be sure to use citations and provide a reference list in APA format. Mr. Jetson likes information to be supported and justified.

Please save your file as ‘LastName_Asgn_8_3_pt2.doc(x)’ (example ‘Jones_Asgn_8_3_pt2.doc’)

You will submit this activity in the 8.3 – Assignment: AirCon, Inc. activity item, along with 8.3.1 Air Con, Inc Assignment: Toolbox Talk activity.

You will submit both of these assignments here by the end of the module week.

View the SFTY 619 8.3 Toolbox Talk and Email Rubric.