SMA Tiler: February 2011

Thursday, 24 February 2011

Introduction

INTRODUCTION TO e-TRAINING

SMI Tiler provides affective course to those who interested in safety measures especially for parties involved in construction industry. E-training is established to help people in enhancing precaution of safety during at site. Since e-training is virtual training, people can visit this blog anytime, anywhere and suit with their preferable. With coorperation of National Institute Occupational, Safety and Health (NIOSH) this training absolutely up-to-date with current situation and people can gain their knowledge and consideration in safety measures.

Objectives

OBJECTIVE:

At the end of this training

Ø the tiler s can understand and apply the Safety and Health regulations while doing their jobs

Ø the tillers will aware about their safety while doing tiling works

WHO NEEDS THIS TRAINING:

1) Tilers

2) Employers

Overview of OSH Legislation

OVERVIEW OF OSH LEGISLATION

1) Occupational Safety & Health Act 1994, Regulations & Orders

Objectives of the act:
·         to secure the safety, health and welfare of persons at work against risks to safety or health arising out of the activities of persons at work
·         to protect persons at place of work other than persons at work against risks to safety or health arising out of the activities of persons at work
·         to promote an occupational environment for persons at work which is adapted to their physiological and psychological needs
·         to provide the means whereby the associated occupational safety and health legislations may be progressively replaced by a system of regulations and approved industry codes of practice operating in combination with the provisions of this Act designed to maintain or improve the standards of safety and health.

- Involve all industries, excluding armed forces and any jobs on merchant ship

- Provides for general duties of employers and self employed persons to their employees and to the persons other than the employees

- Agencies that responsible to enforce this act

· Department of Safety & Health (DOSH)

· SOCSO

· NIOSH

- additional information can be obtained from DOSH [click for more information]

- If there is any accidents happened, the victims must send quickly to the nearest hospital and needs to inform to the employer. However, if there are fatalities, within 8 hours the employer must report to OSHA. Below is the table of some fatalities occurred in the end of year 2010 investigate by OSHA

FATALITIES
Date of Incident	Company and Location	Preliminary Description of Incident
12/2/2010	LMS Intellibound, Inc., Dunn, NC 28334	Worker was operating a stand-up type, reach-rider, high-lift truck in reverse when he struck an empty wooden pallet positioned on the forks of an unmanned reach-rider truck. The worker contacted the pallet with his upper chest and the force lifted him off the deck of the operator's position and crushed him against the vertical boom of the lift. Worker was operating both forklifts in performance of his job.
12/2/2010	Professional Metal Roofs, Huntsville, AL 35805	Worker was pulling the rubber roofing and fell 15 to 20 feet through a skylight.
12/2/2010	Sharps Mill Forest Products, Inc., Palmyra, TN 37142	Worker was felling trees in a tract with vines intertwined among the trees when one tree uprooted another, which struck and killed the worker.
12/2/2010	State Armory NYS Div Military & Naval Affairs New York, NY 11433	Worker was putting a tarp on a leaky roof when he lost his footing, falling about 60 feet through a glass skylight.
12/3/2010	Air Control, LLC., Andalosia, AL 36421	Worker was installing heating and cooling equipment and fell from a ladder.

reference from OSHA Weekly Fatality Reports

Tiling Works

TILER

· Introduction

Tiler is one of the trades that always in demand, either for a new construction or renovating works. Tiling job can be as simple as laying the tile, or as difficult as leveling process.

· Job Description

1. Preparation

Preparation is one of the keys to a successful tile installation. This means examining the substrate, and leveling it if necessary. This can entail nailing up sheets of backer board around a shower, checking the flex of a floor or using a self-leveling compound to even out small valleys or humps. Tile jobs can fail if a substrate is not properly prepared.

2. Setting Materials

In addition to the preparation and the actual installation of the tile, a tile installer will need to be able to work with many kinds of setting materials.

3. Cutting Tile

Every tile installation will involve cuts. Cutting can be as tedious as scoring and snapping one tile at a time, or as quick as cutting the tiles on a tile saw. An installer should be familiar with various cutting techniques, as tools can vary by the size of the job, the size of the tile and the type of tile.

4. Laying the Tile

There are many tile installers who only hang tile on walls. This is because laying tile on a floor means being on your knees for hours laying, cutting and grouting in the tiles. Tiling can be precision work, with intricate cuts made and tiles laid and lined up perfectly square with walls. While speed can come with practice, doing the job right means taking the time to dry-fit a job, make the proper cuts, prepare the substrate and finally lay the tile.

5. Cleaning Up

After the installation of tile completed, the tiler needs to clean up all grout, including grout haze and leaving no marks or footprints behind.

Safety Measures of Works

EXPERIENCE A WORLD OF SAFETY

Safety abound in SMA Tiler.SMA Tiler provides advice, basic skills in safety for tiler and safety measures management for those who interested in safety measures management. We open new doors of safety alert to specialist, labour and construction expertise from the world over to provide better protection and minimize injury during processes of applying tiles.

SKILFUL CONSULTANT IN SAFETY MEASURES FIELD

Apart from providing useful knowledge in managing safety measures, we also apply on :

i) Free motivation for registered contractor, developer or individual (labour) by our skilled consultant.

ii) Online communication in social network between consultant and visitor.

iii) Provide safety measures forum for students who involve in construction courses.

iv) Plan, promote, process, stimulate, facilitate and undertake on safety measures especially for tiler.

v) Act as coordinating agent on behalf of Occupational, Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)

vi) Provide registered suppliers of safety tools for tiler.

Safety Measures of Tiling Works

One of the most important things to remember when carrying out tiling job is that it is essential to wear the correct personal protective equipment or PPE as it is known in the building construction trade.

In particular, tiler needs to protect their eyes by wearing safety glasses or goggle while remove the tiles or cutting the tiles. It is vital in order to avoid any flying chisel from tiling go into tillers eyes. It will become a disaster to their life, while in some cases I will cause blindness.

While working with tile adhesive and solvents, the tiler needs to take into their consideration to wear suitable gloves. As we know, tile adhesives and solvents made from cement mixture that can cause tiler hand skin peel off and some time can cause skin diseases. Besides that, gloves also essential while operate tile cutter, mostly when they are power tools. The gloves will act as a protection to tiler hands to avoid any accidents.

If the tiler asked to install floor tiles, they need to kneel down for a long time. That circumstances cause the tiler knee getting injured. To prevent this to be happened, the tiler should protect their knee by wearing knee pads. Knee pads available in many types such as air knee pads and liquid knee pads.

Noise is not a new hazard, mostly while operate the machinery such as tile cutter. Too much noise exposure may cause permanent hearing problem, which tiler ear will be filled with a buzz sound. However, if the tiler ear exposes to noise continuously it will cause permanent hearing problem, even causing incurable hearing loss and tinnitus. That’s why; the tiler must wear ear protection such as headphones to prevent previous unwanted circumstances.

Respirator also needed by the tiler. While operate tile cutter, it will produce a harmful dust which may cause cancer, lung impairment, other diseases, or death. Ensure that when working with tiling adhesives and solvents that at all times the room being worked in is properly ventilated and open a window if necessary.

Wash hands thoroughly after working with tile adhesives, grouts, sealants and in particular epoxy resins which can sometimes be required when tiling wetrooms, to avoid contamination or contact afterwards with eyes or mouths.

Learn about Tile Safety - The Home Depot

Tiling Tools

Below are the tiling tools and equipments required for this kind of work. Without these equipments it is quite hard for the tiler to finish up the works.