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Our New Customers
Tomahawk Pipeline Contruction, Inc. Marbury Construction Company LLC Washington Utilities & Transportation Commission Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District Carroll County VA Natural Gas Dept C.A. Murren & Sons National Fuel Gas Distribution Co. Mark Companies Storm Field Services, LLC Halo Services, Inc. Texas Industrial Partners Brush Country Energy Services Miller Brothers Welding JP Energy Team Industrial Services Inc. Quality Integrated Services, Inc. (QIS) Titan Utility Services
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EWN wishes you a Happy and Safe 2015!
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Award Winning "811" Rose Parade Float
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Congratulations to 811 Underground Service Alert of Southern California! For the last two years, 811 Underground Service Alerts of Southern California's Rose Parade Floats received awards.
811 Underground Service Alert of Southern California won the Bob Hope Humor Award for the 2015 Rose Parade. Bob Hope Humor Award honors the Most Comical & Amusing Entry. The theme for this year's float was "Do it Right ... Call 811."
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811 Underground Service Alert of Southern California won the Animation Trophy for the 2014 Rose Parade with the Dig Alert "Protect Your Dream, Right In Your Own Backyard" float.
Tournament of Roses Parade 2014 - 811 Float
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Cold Stress and Related Dangers 
Cold stress can be an issue for workers that are required to labor in any type of cold environment for an extended amount of time. During cold temperatures, the human body works harder to maintain a consistent internal temperature. According to OSHA, cold stress occurs when an individual's core (or internal) temperature is lowered by a reduction in the skin's temperature as a result of exposure to weather elements.
Prevention is the most important key to successfully combating cold stress and the related dangers. Prevention is a shared responsibility between employers and workers. Employers can provide worker training on how to prevent, recognize, and react to cold stress illnesses and injuries in the workplace. Additionally, employers should provide engineering controls, establish safe work practices, policies, and procedures, and provide warm break areas. However, employees must dress properly and use the proper PPE to effectively prevent cold stress illnesses and accidents.
Although cold temperatures play a significant role in cold stress, there are other factors that contribute to the impact and severity of cold stress. These factors include wind chill, level of moisture, level of preparedness (both with dressing appropriately and first aid training), and worker's personal health and physical condition at the time of exposure to the elements. Some of the potential health problems or bodily damages are hypothermia, frostbite, and trench foot.
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 Strategic Safety Programs
Organizations have changing needs, including safety needs. According to EHS Today, "the need for strategic change in safety is ambushing many organizations in today's climate. Many organizations fail to realize in a timely manner that changing workforces require changing safety efforts." Every year, specific employee dynamics change within an organization. New employees are hired. Seasoned employees choose retirement. As this process occurs, the commonly shared knowledge of safety procedures and expected safety behaviors can be lost or become ineffective in meeting the current needs of the ever-changing organizational dynamics. Overall workplace accidents can increase without a seemingly rational explanation. When increased accidents begin, the safety team or department become reactive and begin to search for solutions to solve the present problems. This can lead to a stream of spontaneous changes to correct unsafe conditions as they arise. However, a proactive and strategic safety program approach would evolve with the organization allowing for productive growth in the safest working environment possible.
As we begin a new year and all other areas for strategic planning are being considered, a strategic safety plan can be developed outlining the organization's goal definition of successful safety conditions.
- Revisit the current safety program and assess the effectiveness of meeting the organizational needs.
- Through accurate assessments, determine what is working and what is not working.
- Determine if old programs can be altered to meet the changing organizational needs or if new programs are the answer.
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 Carbon Monoxide Poisoning - The Silent Killer
The Mayo Clinic defines carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning as "an illness caused by exposure to too much carbon monoxide - a colorless, odorless and tasteless gas. Too much carbon monoxide in the air you breathe can greatly diminish your ability to absorb oxygen, leading to serious tissue damage." Carbon monoxide is produced as a bi-product of appliances used when heating your home during the cold months or using alternative power sources, such as generators, during power outage. Due to this need for added warmth, January has become the deadliest month for carbon monoxide poisoning and is largely due to unintentional or accidental carbon monoxide exposure. Unintentional carbon monoxide exposure becomes dangerous when carbon monoxide begins to accumulate in a contained or poorly ventilated space. Signs of carbon monoxide poisoning can be subtle but should be treated as a medical emergency. Seek treatment immediately, if someone has been exposed to carbon monoxide and is experiencing: - headaches
- nausea
- dizziness
- confusion
- light-headedness
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This Month in Energy History
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January 7, 1892 - Krebs, Oklahoma
Mine Number Eleven Explosion
The Osage Coal and Mining Company's Mine Number Eleven explosion occurred from a "windy shot" that swept through the entire mine. A windy shot occurred when an untrained munitions worker accidently set off a charge leading to a chain reaction of explosions throughout the mine. This mining accident was marked as the third worst in the United States at the time, killing one hundred men and injuring two hundred. The Mine Number Eleven was primarily located on Native American Territory, and therefore exempt from The United States Code: Title 30 - Mineral Lands and Mining Chapter 10 - Coal Mining Safety, which was repealed in 1941. Although the federal government did establish a mine inspector position for this area as a result of the Krebs accident, the inspector lacked the authority to do anything more than record and report on the mining accidents.
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January 10, 1901
Gusher Signals Start of US Oil Industry
The Spindletop oilfield has become a proud part of Texas history. The journey to Spindletop began with a belief held by Texas businessman and amateur geologist Patillo Higgins that a large pool of oil existed under a salt dome formation south of Beaumont, Texas. Higgins joined with several partners to form the Gladys City Oil, Gas, and Manufacturing Company, which experienced many unsuccessful attempts at locating the oil before Higgins chose to leave the company. Although Higgins no longer possessed an ownership stake in the company, he leased a tract of land at Spindletop to Anthony Lucas, a mining engineer. Lucas successfully located the pool of oil under Beaumont.
Spindletop enjoyed an immediate success with 285 active wells opening within the first year. Although relatively few wells remain active today, Spindletop also attracted many oil and land companies to the area that are still operating, such as Humble (now Exxon), the Texas Company (Texaco) and Magnolia Petroleum Company (Mobil).
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January 2, 1974
Nixon Signs National Speed Limit into Law
The Emergency Highway Energy Conservation Act is signed into effect by President Richard M. Nixon. The act set the national speed limit to 55 mph for all national highways. Prior to this legislation, individual states set speed limits within their boundaries as deemed necessary by state legislative bodies. However, in 1973 the Arab members of the Organization for Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) stopped oil shipments to the United States and others to oppose their declared support for Israel in the Yom Kippur War. The lack of foreign oil shipments caused the gas prices in the US to rise and the economy to experience a recession. Therefore, Nixon used the Emergency Highway Energy Conservation Act as a means to encourage Americans to drive at more fuel-efficient speeds and therefore reduce the amount of foreign oil required to meet our needs. To encourage states to comply, the Act authorized the Department of Transportation to withhold approval or funding for any projects within states that did not comply with the new speed limit laws. The Emergency Highway Energy Conservation Act repealed on November 28, 1995.
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EWN Upcoming Training Events
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Master Evaluator Certification Program
February 3, 2015
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Tulsa, OK
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Master Evaluator Certification Program
February 10, 2015
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Decatur, Texas
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Basic System Administrator Training
February 11, 2015
8:30 AM - 3:30 PM
Decatur, Texas
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Congratulations Recent Graduates
MECP Graduates
December 30, 2014
Valparaiso, FL
From left to right, beginning on the back row: Alton D. Ward, Donald Thomas, Terry Davis, David Howze, Timothy Scott Barrow, and Kyle Cox.
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MECP Graduates
January 13, 2015 Decatur, TX  From left to right, beginning on the back row: H.T. Johnson, Mike King, Don Gosch, David Scott, Abe Guerrero, Bob Ward, Trevor Candelaria, Tony Candelaria, Jeremy Reicheneker, Scott Cooper, Salvador Soto, and William Sutton.
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Basic AdminJanuary 14, 2015 Decatur, TX  From left to right, beginning on the back row: April Villaneda, Abe Guerrera, Anna Kate Gandy, Anayeli Camacho, Chelsea Holder, and Gregoire Moua.
_________________Master TrainerJanuary 21-22, 2015Birmingham, AL  From left to right, beginning on the back row: Bill Moffitt, Lea Munsey, Bryan Hassinger, David Willoughby, Chris Felts, and Frances Shehan.
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