KSV Group - Health, Safety, Environmental Consulting

Name: KSV Group - Health, Safety, Environmental Consulting
Address: 141 N. Martinwood Road , Suite 104, Knoxville, TN, 37923, US
Telephone: (800) 704-8947
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KSV Group - Health, Safety, Environmental Consulting

Health & Safety, Environmental, Asset Management, Training

KSV specializes in professional services in the related fields of geotechnical engineering and environmental consulting as well as construction materials testing, forensic engineering, and ground penetrating radar (GPR). We provide dynamic solutions in the form of options from the delivery of our services across multiple market segments including projects for the United States Armed Forces, federa

l, state, and local government agencies and a range of private sector projects for industrial facilities, institutional campuses, energy companies and real estate developments (both commercial and residential).

06/24/2020

As part of our ongoing series of National Safety Month and Open Safe.

Personal Protective Equipment

Types
• Gloves
• Goggles
• Face shields
• Face masks
• Respiratory

Selection based on
• Selected based upon the hazard to the worker
• Properly fitted and periodically refitted
• Consistently and properly worn when required
• Regularly inspected, maintained, and replaced
• Properly cleaned, and stored or disposed

06/21/2020

As part of our ongoing series of National Safety Month and Open Safe.

Separation of Sick Employees

Workers who have had an exposure but remain asymptomatic should follow practices prior to and during their work shift:

- Pre-Screen
Employers should measure the employee’s temperature before starting
work. temperature checks should happen before the individual enters the
facility.
- Regular Monitoring
As long as the employee doesn’t have a temperature or symptoms, they
should self-monitor under the supervision of their employer’s occupational
health program.
- Wear a Mask
The employee should wear a face mask at all times while in the workplace
for 14 days after last exposure. Employers can issue facemasks or can
approve employees’ supplied cloth face coverings in the event of
shortages.
- Social Distance
The employee should maintain 6 feet and practice social distancing as
work duties permit in the workplace.
- Disinfect and Clean Workspaces
Clean and disinfect all areas such as offices, bathrooms, common areas,
shared electronic equipment routinely.

06/20/2020

As part of our ongoing series of National Safety Month and Open Safe.

7 Tips Meetings & Gatherings

- Consider implement videoconferencing or teleconferencing will
be conducted when possible for work-related meetings and gatherings.
- If safety meetings are conducted in-person, attendance will be collected
verbally, and the foreman/superintendent will sign-in each attendee.
Attendance will not be tracked through passed-around sign-in sheets or
mobile devices. During any in-person safety meetings, avoid gathering in
groups of more than 10 people and participants must remain at least six
6 feet apart.
- Where work trailers are used, only necessary employees should enter the
trailers and all employees should maintain social distancing while inside
the trailers.
- Keep in-person meetings limited (including toolbox talks and safety
meetings), limit the number of workers in attendance, and use social
distancing.
- Carefully consider whether travel is necessary.
- Consider canceling, adjusting, or postponing large meetings or gatherings
that can only occur in-person.
- Employees will be encouraged to stagger breaks and lunches, if
practicable, to reduce the size of any group at any one time to less than ten
10 people.

06/19/2020

As part of our ongoing series of National Safety Month and Open Safe.

Social Distancing

Social distancing should be implemented if recommended by state and local health authorities. Social distancing means avoiding large gatherings and maintaining distance (approximately 6 feet or 2 meters) from others when possible (e.g., breakrooms and cafeterias).

8 Strategies that business could use include:

- Implementing flexible worksites (e.g., telework)
- Implementing flexible work hours (e.g., staggered shifts)
- Increasing physical space between employees at the worksite
- Increasing physical space between employees and customers (e.g., drive
through, partitions)
- Implementing flexible meeting and travel options (e.g., postpone non-
essential meetings or events)
- Downsizing operations
- Delivering services remotely (e.g. phone, video, or web)
- Delivering products through curbside pick-up or delivery

06/18/2020

As part of our ongoing series of National Safety Month and Open Safe.

Identify where and how workers might be exposed to COVID-19

Here are 7 Steps for Workers:

• Take your temperature before work.
• Wear a face mask at all times.
• Practice social distancing in the workplace as work duties permit.
• Don’t’ stay at work if you become sick.
• Don’t share headsets or objects used near face.
• Don’t congregate in crowded places.

06/17/2020

As part of our ongoing series of National Safety Month and Open Safe.

Reduce Transmission Among Employees

- Sick Employees Encouraged to Stay HomEmployees who have symptoms
(i.e., fever, cough, or shortness of breath) should notify their supervisor
and stay home.
- Sick employees should follow CDC-recommended steps. Employees
should
not return to work until the criteria to discontinue home isolation are met,
in consultation with healthcare providers and state and local health
departments.
- Employees who are well but who have a sick family member at home with
COVID-19 should notify their supervisor and follow CDC recommended
precautions.

06/16/2020

As part of our ongoing series of National Safety Month and Open Safe.

Symptoms of COVID-19

Symptoms that may appear 2-14 days after exposure to the virus:
• Fever
• Cough
• Shortness of breath or difficulty in breathing
• Chills and repeated shaking with chills
• Muscle and joint pain
• Headache
• Sore throat
• New loss of taste or smell

Symptoms that require immediate medical attention include:
• Trouble breathing
• Persistent pain or pressure in the chest
• New confusion or inability to arouse
• Bluish lips or face

06/14/2020

As part of our ongoing series of National Safety Month and Open Safe.

Signs of COVID-19 – Transmission mostly from person to person

A potential exposure means being a household contact or having close contact within 6 feet of an individual with confirmed or suspected COVID-19.

The timeframe for having contact with an individual includes the period of time of 48 hours before the individual became symptomatic.

Infection with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, can cause illness ranging from mild to severe and, in some cases, can be fatal. Some people infected with the virus have reported experiencing other non-respiratory symptoms. Other people, referred to as asymptomatic cases, have experienced no symptoms at all.

06/13/2020

As part of our ongoing series of National Safety Month and Open Safe.

Administrative Controls to Prevent Covid-19 Transmission

Social distancing should be implemented if recommended by state and local health authorities. Social distancing means avoiding large gatherings and maintaining distance (approximately 6 feet or 2 meters) from others when possible (e.g., breakrooms and cafeterias).

8 Strategies for Businesses to Implement Social Distancing

- Implementing flexible worksites (e.g., telework)
- Implementing flexible work hours (e.g., staggered shifts)
- Increasing physical space between employees at the worksite
- Increasing physical space between employees and customers (e.g., drive
through, partitions)
- Implementing flexible meeting and travel options (e.g., postpone non-
essential meetings or events)
- Downsizing operations
- Delivering services remotely (e.g. phone, video, or web)
- Delivering products through curbside pick-up or delivery

06/12/2020

As part of our ongoing series of National Safety Month and Open Safe.

Administrative Controls to Prevent Covid-19 Transmission

5 Tips to Screen Workers for Covid-19

- Screen workers before entry into the facility.
- Provide verbal screening in appropriate language(s) to determine
whether workers have had symptoms in the past 24 hours.
- Check temperatures of workers at the start of each shift to identify anyone
with a fever of 100.4°F or greater
- Do not let employees enter the workplace if they have a fever of ≥100.4°F,
reported fever symptoms, or based on screening results
- Encourage workers to self-isolate and contact a healthcare provider.

06/11/2020

As part of our ongoing series of National Safety Month and Open Safe.

Administrative Controls to Prevent Covid-19 Transmission

10 Tips for Companies to Reduce Covid-19 Transmission in the Workplace

- Encouraging sick workers to stay at home.
- Screen workers prior to entering the workplace each day.
- Encourage single-file movement with a 6-foot distance between each
worker through the facility, where possible.
- Designate workers to monitor and facilitate distancing on production
floors.
- Provide visual cues (e.g., floor markings, signs) for social distancing
- Stagger break times or provide temporary break areas and restrooms.
- Stagger workers’ arrival and departure time.
- Encourage workers to avoid carpooling.
- Discontinuing nonessential travel to locations with ongoing COVID-19
outbreaks.
- Providing hands-on training practices.

06/10/2020

Worker Exposure Assessment

As businesses are beginning to open back up amid the Covid-19 pandemic, they must ensure they perform a risk assessment based on their industry involving workplace hazard exposures.

To identify and assess hazards, employers and workers:
- Collect and review information about the hazards present or likely to be
present in the workplace.
- Conduct initial and periodic workplace inspections of the workplace to
identify new or recurring hazards.
- Investigate injuries, illnesses, incidents, and close calls/near misses to
determine the underlying hazards, their causes, and safety and health
program.
- Group similar incidents and identify trends in injuries, illnesses, and
hazards reported.
- Consider hazards associated with emergency or nonroutine situations.
- Determine the severity of incidents that could result for each
hazard identified, and use this information to prioritize corrective actions.

OSHA has categorized workplace exposures based on a scale of Very High to Low.

Very High - Healthcare workers, laboratory, morgue
High - Healthcare delivery, medical transport, mortuary
Medium - General public, schools, high population high density, high- volume retrial
Low - Minimal contact with public or other workers

Address

141 N. Martinwood Road , Suite 104
Knoxville, TN
37923

Telephone

(800) 704-8947

Website

http://www.ksvgroup.com/

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