MARCH 2023|VOL.2 NO. 3
SELCAT Spotlight
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In this issue Know Your Knots
Learn how to tie a square knot.
March 2023 Graduates
Help congratulate our most recent graduates from March 2023!
Tailboards
April- Driving Awareness Month Focus on Driving Safely
April is Distracted Driving Awareness Month, a united nationwide effort to raise awareness about the dangers of distracted driving and eliminate preventable deaths and injuries on our roadways. The National Safety Council asks all drivers to take the following pledge: “I will make our roads safer for everyone by avoiding all forms of distracted driving. I will speak up when others are distracted to protect myself and all other road users. ”As an apprentice you are very likely new to the trade, you naturally lack experience and look to your instructors and others to teach you, to your coworkers and supervisors to show you the way to work safely, to help protect you and to help you protect yourself. You’re in an environment now that’s much different than when you were school age or before you entered into this trade. Now, each and every day you go to work and face real and physical challenges to your health and safety. We all have a duty to help one another work safe, drive safe and return home without getting hurt or being involved in an accident. One of the biggest hazards if not the biggest hazard we all face is driving. Anyone can be involved in an accident. There are many things and others that we have no control over. However, we can control OUR BEHAVIOR and the CHOICES WE MAKE. Always wear seatbelts, put your phone away, don’t be complacent, have respect for the vehicle you drive, especially our heavy commercial vehicles. A bucket truck or digger derrick truck demands our respect. Unfortunately, as an industry we have too many vehicle accidents. In just the first months of this year, apprentice drivers were involved in preventable rollovers of a derrick and a bucket truck. Fortunately, no one was badly injured. These were preventable because no one else was involved in these incidents and the equipment was working properly.
Read about the importance of daily Tailboards on the job.
Words from the Executive Director Check out a few words from SELCAT'S Executive Director!
Important dates: April 7, 2023 GOOD FRIDAY- SELCAT office will be closed. April 9, 2023 EASTER- Happy Easter April 10-21, 2023 Overhead Fundamental Training School April 28, 2023 Mandatory Orientation Class. Check your SELCAT email. April 29, 2023 Online Transformer 1 SeriesPart 3