NRMCA Introduces Night Pour Safety Training Program
Thursday, June 10, 2010

Coincides With “Summer of Safety” Webinar Series Silver Spring, MD – June 10, 2010 – The National Ready Mixed Concrete Association has published the latest in its growing array of safety-focused training programs, this time to coincide with its “Summer of Safety” Webinar series and the marking of June as Safety Month. This latest offering, Safety Series #18: Night Pour Safety for the Ready Mixed Concrete Industry, is a CD-based PowerPoint presentation with instructor notes designed to teach employees the importance of hazard recognition when it comes to night pours.   Delivering to jobsites during the day is potentially difficult, let alone at night. Avoiding slips, trips and falls as well as dealing with temporary lighting are covered. Excavations are more difficult to detect at night and special emphasis is placed on the “1 to 1 Rule.” Finally, a quiz and training documentation form is enclosed to track personnel training. Click here for more information.   Night Pour Safety is just one part of NRMCA’s summer-long emphasis on helping ready mix companies implement multifaceted safety campaigns among their employees. To do this, Managing Director of Safety David Ayers and Senior Vice President of Operations and Compliance Gary Mullings created the safety Webinar series which encompasses a variety of topics – click here to learn more. In addition, the beginning of the Webinar series corresponds to June being designated Safety Month.   “These courses were created in conjunction with member company volunteers to ensure maximum training effectiveness,” said Doug Rexroad, director of Health, Safety and Environmental at NRMCA member company Essroc Ready Mix, Inc. and NRMCA Safety Task Group chairman. “Night pours are an attractive option to reduce traffic congestion but they also potentially increase the chance for accidents to happen on the jobsite.”   NRMCA will also be promoting safety through periodic special offers from its publications catalog, which contains such titles as the Cement Burn Prevention Program, Mixer Drum Cleaning Program, Rollover Prevention Program and Respiratory Protection Program.                          “NRMCA will continue to proactively address safety issues in the ready mixed concrete industry” added Mullings. “Accidents don’t happen in isolation. If it happened once, then the potential is there for them to happen to all concrete producers.”   NRMCA, based in Silver Spring, MD, represents the producers of ready mixed concrete and the companies that provide materials, equipment and support to the industry. It conducts education, training, promotion, research, engineering, safety, environmental, technological, lobbying and regulatory programs.   xxx
Contact Info:	David Ayers Email: dayers@nrmca.org Phone: 301-587-1400