How is your record keeping? This past week I worked with Jim Nedin, a consultant with our company, at a customer sprayer training event. The last section of Jim's presentation is about safety. When Jim was in the early part of his 40+ year career, he was a Superintendent. He had an accident one day while loading a sprayer and inhaled a large dose of chemical. He ended up in the hospital and to this day he still has effects from just touching a sprayer that has some chemical residual! His talk on sprayer safety is one of experience and you can tell when he talks about his accident it is incredibly important to him. But sadly their is another part of this....the legal side. Today if the same accident that happened to Jim occurred at your club (hopefully never!) what would happen? Well my guess would be a police report and a visit from your insurance agent, maybe a visit from OSHA or maybe even a Department of Ag Rep. Do you have your records ready for the fine tooth comb that is coming? Do you have it up to date? Are you ready for a lawyer to call and request all of it? Employee safety is always one of the biggest things at any club but it is the back half of being able to show the employee safety is in place.
We are already sending out tine catalogs and we all know the season is right around the corner. So with one of the few days left this winter where you are doing office work, please take a look at your spray records! Make sure you are ready for something that hopefully never happens!
*Just wanted to say great job by the Philadelphia Area Golf Course Superintendents Association on Friday, especially Scott Kroll & Kristen Liebsch for running the fundraiser for Tom Gosselin in his fight against Leukemia! Incredible turnout of just about EVERYBODY in the Turf business in the Philly area to support someone that we are all pulling for!
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