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"Walk the Talk"
| Vol. III Issue 20 | Web Site: rrsd.org | March 01, 2001 |
THE TOP TWO
NUMBER 1
In young children, burns are the leading cause of accidental death in the home.
Here are some tips for
minimizing the chances that your child will be a burn victim:
* Install smoke detectors on each floor of your home and test them periodically.
* Have a fire extinguisher in your kitchen.
* Never leave your small child alone in the house.
* Keep matches out of your child's reach.
* When cooking, turn pot handles toward the back of the stove.
* Do not use cloths or mats that a child can pull off the table.
* Never drink hot beverages with a child on your lap or leave a cup of hot
coffee near the edge of a table here a child might easily pull it off.
·
Turn down
the thermostat on your water heater to between 120 degrees F and 125 degrees F.
At 160
degrees F a child can be scalded in less than a second.
NUMBER 2
After burns, drowning is the second most common cause of accidental death of
young children in the home. Drowning is more common in hot climates, where
people are more apt to have outdoor pools. To decrease the chance of drowning,
follow these measures:
* Never leave a preschooler alone in the bathtub.
* If you have an outdoor pool, install a childproof fence around it.
* Teach your child to swim.
* Teach your child that he or she is never to swim without adult supervision.
* When boating or around water, always have your child wear a life preserver.
When boating, set a good example by wearing your life preserver.
RRSD
Web Site
The
District now has a Web Site on the Internet.
The address can be viewed at www.rrsd.org
If you have comments, suggestions or submissions for the Newsletter,
please submit them to dparnell@rrsd.org
Emergency Response Team...
The
February ERT training session went well. Team
members practiced hands on leak repair. The
team also reviewed new changes with the chlorine system at the WWTP.
John Miles, Wilson Wheeler & Gregg Wilson got their first experience
with the chlorine repair kit while wearing the SCBA.
The average time to repair a leak remains at around 6 minutes.
This time seems to be a good average for our team.
Training on April 4th will be SCBA review with Mr. Terry Johnson from
Industrial Construction Enterprises instructing the class.
Class times are 8:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. at the Administration Office.
Lunch will be provided.
Calendar
of Events..
March
13th - Board meeting 5 pm - Admin
March
14th - Safety "B" Group 3 pm Admin
March
21st - Safety Committee 9 am WTP
March
28th - Safety "A" Group 3 pm Admin
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Clip and Save –
Larry's
Word Jumble
By
Larry D. Moseley
Try this teaser if you dare...
I am eight letters long – ”12345678“
My 1234 is an atmospheric condition
My 34567 supports a plant
My 4567 is to appropriate
My 45 is a friendly thank you
My 678 is a name
Question: What
word am I?
Laboratory
Safety Says:
By:
Joanne B. Parrott
Ever
heard of the Winter Blues? No,
it’s not a new Jazz band, it’s another name for Seasonal Affective Disorder. SAD is a common condition that affects people year after year
when the days get short & dark. It can be quite severe in some folks, but is
usually relatively mild & manageable. Some
of the symptoms are decreased energy, difficulty waking up in the morning,
inactivity, overeating-especially craving sweets & starches &
consequently weight gain & depression.
Often people w/SAD have trouble concentrating & getting their work
done, withdraw from family & friends, feel anxious, irritable & well of
course-sad. Doctors believe SAD to
be caused by three factors. First,
a lack of light due to any reason, not just the winter season.
For example, a windowless office or basement apartment could cause SAD in
the summer. Second, certain people
are just more susceptible, those w/family history of mental illnesses, mostly
women or those living in the northern colder climates.
Finally stress makes SAD worse. The
good news about this form of depression is that there is so much you can do
about it. First be aware of it
& be prepared to weather the storm. Knowledge
& understanding can help you plan effectively.
Obviously, get more light. Go out on bright sunny days, use higher
wattage light bulbs or turn on more lights in the house. You can put your
bedroom light on a timer to come on before you wake up & there are special
lightwave boxes for extreme cases. Other
treatments include herbals like St. John’s Wort, diet & exercise, stress
management, a vacation to a sunny place or if necessary, anti-depressants
prescribed by your doctor. Source:
Don’t
be SAD – Basketball’s March Madness is on the way.
Support
Your Team's Safety
·
Remember:
You are the member of a team, even when your co-workers are not at your
side. Know their locations.
·
Ensure that
all team members follow established safety procedures and policies.
·
Notify all
co-workers of hazards, both old and new.
Safety
Corner ...
Dennis
E. Parnell, Safety Officer
Who’s Packing Your Parachute?
Charles
Plumb, a US Navel Academy graduate, was a jet fighter pilot in Vietnam. After 75 combat missions, his plane was destroyed by a
surface-to-air missile. Plumb
ejected and parachuted into enemy hands. He
was captured and spent six years in a Communist Vietnamese prison. He survived the ordeal and now lectures on lessons
learned from that experience.
One
day, when Plumb and his wife were sitting in a restaurant, a man at another
table came up and said, ”You’re Plumb! You flew jet fighters in Vietnam from
the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk. You
were shot down!“ ”How in the
world did you know that?“ asked Plumb. ”I
packed your parachute.“ the man replied.
Plumb
gasped in surprise and gratitude. The
man pumped his hand and said, ”I guess it worked!“
Plumb assured him, ”I sure did. If
your chute hadn’t worked, I wouldn’t be here today.“
Plumb couldn’t sleep that night, thinking about that man.
Plumb says, ”I kept pondering what he might have looked like in a Navy
uniform-a Dixie cup hat, a bib in the back, and bell bottom trousers.
I wondered how many times I might have seem him and not even said good
morning, how are you or anything because, you see, I was a fighter pilot and he
was just a sailor.“
Plumb
thought of the many hours the sailor had spent on a long wooden table in the
bowels of the ship, carefully weaving the shrouds and folding the silks of each
chute, holding in his hands each time the fate of someone he didn’t know.
Now, Plumb asks his audience, ”Who’s packing your parachute?“
Everyone has someone who provides what he or she needs to make it through
the day.
Plumb
also points out that he needed many kinds of parachutes when his plane was shot
down over enemy territory – he needed his physical parachute, his mental
parachute, his emotional parachute, and his spiritual parachute. He called on
all these supports before reaching safety.
His experience reminds us all to prepare ourselves to weather whatever
storms lie ahead.
As
you go through this week, month, year…recognize the people who pack your
parachute!
Service
Anniversaries...
March
01st - Larry Lewis
18 years
March
12th - Butch Copeland 28 years
March
19th - Bobby Ogburn 22 years
March
22nd - Bennie Edwards 10 years
March
24th - Larry Moseley 8
years
March
26th - Tim Ogburn 2
years
March
29th - Timothy Skipper 2 years
March
30th - Hugh Hux
3 years
March
27th - Bryan Williams 1 year
Congratulations
!!!
April
Training...
Our
April training will consist of Ladder and Fall Protection.
Mr. Keith Cobb, Industrial Construction Enterprises will conduct this
informative session. Dates are:
"A" Group - March 28th; "B" Group - April 11th.
See you there!
Happy
Birthday !!!
March
03rd - Dennis
Parnell
March
10th - Bobby
Ogburn
March
15th - Jesse
Jenkins
March
24th - Russell
Nowell
Have
a GREAT Day!
Why
is hand washing so important?
Remember Ignaz
Semmelweis? Of course you don’t. But you’re in his debt nonetheless, because
it was Dr. Semmelweis who first demonstrated over a hundred years ago that
routine hand washing can prevent the spread of disease.
“Dr. Semmelweis
worked in a hospital in Vienna whose maternity patients were dying at such an
alarming rate that they begged to be sent home,” said Julie Gerberding, M.D.,
director of the Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) Hospital Infections
Program. “Most of those dying had been treated by student physicians who
worked on cadavers during an anatomy class before beginning their rounds in the
maternity ward.”
Because the students
didn’t wash their hands between touching the dead and the living — hand
washing was an unrecognized hygienic practice at the time — pathogenic
bacteria from the cadavers regularly were transmitted to the mothers via the
students’ hands.
In an experiment
considered quaint at best by his colleagues, Dr. Semmelweis insisted that his
students wash their hands before treating the mothers — and deaths on the
maternity ward fell fivefold.
Unrecognized for the
most part by the general public, Dr. Semmelweis made one of the greatest
contributions in the history of public health. Today, healthcare specialists
generally cite hand washing as the single most effective way to prevent the
transmission of disease.
The CDC cites five
common household scenarios in which disease-causing germs can be transmitted by
contaminated hands:
1. Hands
to food: Germs
are transmitted from unclean hands to food, usually by an infected food preparer
who didn’t wash their hands after using the restroom. The germs are then
passed to those who eat the food.
2. Infected
infant to hands to other children: During diaper changing, germs are passed from an infant
to the hands of a parent. If the parent doesn’t immediately wash his or her
hands before handling another child, the germs are passed to the second child.
3. Food
to hands to food:
Germs are transmitted from raw, uncooked foods, such as chicken, to hands; the
germs are then transferred to other foods, such as salad. Cooking the raw food
kills the initial germs, but the salad remains contaminated.
4. Nose,
mouth, or eyes to hands to others: Germs that cause colds, eye infections, and other
illnesses can spread to the hands by sneezing, coughing, or rubbing the eyes and
then can be transferred to other family members or friends.
5. Food
to hands to infants:
Germs from uncooked foods are transferred to hands and then to infants. If a
parent handling raw chicken, for example, doesn’t wash his or her hands before
tending to an infant, they could transfer germs such as salmonella from the food
to the infant.
Hand washing can
prevent the transfer of germs in all five of these scenarios. CDC recommends
vigorous scrubbing with warm, soapy water for at least 15 seconds.
OOPS!!!
We forgot...
Butch
and Mary Margaret Copeland
are proud "new" grandparents! Scott and Alice Anne Wilson welcomed
their new arrival, Cameron Scott Wilson on January 26, 2001 @ 11:48 p.m.
Little Cameron Scott weighed in at 7 lbs. 4 oz. and 20 inches long.
Congratulations to both of these families.
Answers
to Larry's Jumble
Answer:
Mistaken
Notable
Quote:
"Elvis is gone but "Little G" is alive & kicking @ the
WWTP. Guess Who?
Linda's
Lair
By
Linda H. Floyd
Here’s
something to think about! Of the 122 million people in the work force, 23 lose
their lives and another 9,000 suffer disabling injuries every day. Statistics
indicate that many of these injuries are the result of our own unsafe acts.
Accepting responsibility for personal safety and a good safety attitude are the
keys to avoiding accidents in the workplace. We must value our well-being enough
to protect ourselves from injury by following accepted policies and practices of
our jobs.
Remember!
Think before you do!
