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Safety Corner articles and topics

Worksite Safety Summary 

This Worksite Safety Summary 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)

 

Topics

Environmental safety 

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

 

General safety 

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

 

Ladder safety

  1. Extension Ladders – February 2012
  2. Step Ladders – March 2012
  3. Ladder Jacks – October 2012
  4. An Extension on Extension Ladders − April 2013

 

Scaffolding safety

  1. Scaffolding – April 2012
  2. Ladder Jacks – October 2012 

Tool safety

  1. Circular Saws – July 2012

 

Worksite safety

  1. General Worksites – June 2012
  2. A Brush With Kindness Worksites – December 2012