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Safety Corner articles and topics

Worksite Safety Summary 

This Worksite Safety Summary [1] should be reviewed by all Care-A-Vanners, especially before your first build.  
In addition, specific topics are covered in each monthly newsletter and available below.

Articles that have appeared in the Safety Corner of the Care-A-Vanners e-newsletter

  • Available for use by CAV volunteers, team leaders and affiliates for the benefit of safety in the CAV program.  
  • As new topics and articles are created, they will periodically be added to this list.
  • Articles are arranged by topic areas.  (Articles relevant to more than one topic area will appear in more than one topic heading.)

Reading and printing the articles:

  1. Click on individual article titles to read or print each article.  
  2. Or, download or print all of the Safety Corner articles at once:
    January 2012 (General Volunteer Safety) - April 2013 (An Extension on Extension Ladders) [2]

 

Topics

Environmental safety 

  1. Working with Hardie Products – Silica IS An Issue [3] – January 2013
  2. Rebuilding in Previously-Flooded Areas [4] – February 2013
  3. Renovation Projects [5] − March 2013
  4. Dealing With Mold [6] − May 2013

 

General safety 

  1. General Volunteer Safety [7] – January 2012
  2. General Safety Items for Volunteers [8] – May 2012
  3. OSHA's Top 25 Safety Violations [9] − August 2012
  4. What To Do When You See A Safety Problem [10] – September 2012
  5. Improving Safety at The Affiliates [11] – November 2012

 

Ladder safety

  1. Extension Ladders [12] – February 2012
  2. Step Ladders [13] – March 2012
  3. Ladder Jacks [14] – October 2012
  4. An Extension on Extension Ladders [15] − April 2013

 

Scaffolding safety

  1. Scaffolding [16] – April 2012
  2. Ladder Jacks [14] – October 2012 

Tool safety

  1. Circular Saws [17] – July 2012

 

Worksite safety

  1. General Worksites [18] – June 2012
  2. A Brush With Kindness Worksites [19] – December 2012

Source URL: http://www.habitat.org/rv/safety_corner.aspx

Links:
[1] http://www.habitat.org/sites/default/files/rv_worksite_safety.pdf
[2] http://www.habitat.org/sites/default/files/rv_safety_corner_articles_v3.pdf
[3] http://www.habitat.org/rv/safety_corner/Hardie.aspx
[4] http://www.habitat.org/rv/safety_corner/rebuilding_flooded_areas.aspx
[5] http://www.habitat.org/rv/safety_corner/renovations.aspx
[6] http://www.habitat.org/rv/safety_corner/mold.aspx
[7] http://www.habitat.org/rv/safety_corner/general_volunteer_safety.aspx
[8] http://www.habitat.org/rv/safety_corner/general_safety_items_volunteers.aspx
[9] http://www.habitat.org/rv/safety_corner/OSHA_violations.aspx
[10] http://www.habitat.org/rv/safety_corner/safety_problems.aspx
[11] http://www.habitat.org/rv/safety_corner/affiliate_safety.aspx
[12] http://www.habitat.org/rv/safety_corner/extension_ladder.aspx
[13] http://www.habitat.org/rv/safety_corner/Step_ladder_safety.aspx
[14] http://www.habitat.org/rv/safety_corner/ladder_jacks.aspx
[15] http://www.habitat.org/rv/safety_corner/Extension_ladders_Extension.aspx
[16] http://www.habitat.org/rv/safety_corner/Scaffolding_safety.aspx
[17] http://www.habitat.org/rv/safety_corner/circular_saws.aspx
[18] http://www.habitat.org/rv/safety_corner/general_worksite.aspx
[19] http://www.habitat.org/rv/safety_corner/ABWK.aspx