Worker Protection - Industrial Safety

Fig. 5 - Shelter and Hilti personnel participate in operational training on concrete boring and sawing equipment provided to the shelter. The training occurred in Kyiv in November 1997 prior to deployment of the equipment at the shelter. Maintenance training on the equipment will occur in Moscow during January 1988.

The shelter's industrial safety equipment is inadequate to protect workers. The shelter lacks proper lighting, scaffolding, and tooling for prevention of falls and injuries. The shelter needs additional equipment such as gloves, hard hats, and respirators to protect individual workers. Also inadequate are the emergency equipment, monitoring instruments, and communication and surveillance equipment.

The United States has delivered the following equipment for protecting individual workers:

• 50 earmuff-type hearing protectors
• 240 Sound-Off cap hearing protectors (built into hard hats)
• 40 full-face respirators with built-in communications
• 20 pairs of chemical-resistant gloves
• 20 pairs of welding gloves
• 3 welding glare-shield curtains
• 2 high-visibility, full-face respirators for evaluation
• 200 hard hats with hard-hat lighting.

The United States is purchasing a Jaws-of-Life rescue device for delivery in February 1998 and has delivered the following equipment for emergency rescue, treatment, and training:

• a full complement of emergency rescue coveralls, harnesses, lanyards, etc.
• 1 emergency first aid cabinet
• 2 major emergency medical kits
• 1 CPR mannequin.

The United States has delivered the following instruments for monitoring air quality:

• 1 industrial hygiene gas monitoring instrument
• 2 temperature-humidity instruments
• 2 wind speed/direction instruments.

The United States has shipped the following equipment for shelter surveillance, which starting in 1998 will be used periodically for job planning and for monitoring work in progress:

• 2 radiation-hardened TV cameras
• 2 surveillance TV cameras
• recorders
• video-processing equipment with supporting hardware
• photographic equipment
• film processing, scanning, and printing equipment.

The United States has delivered the following equipment for industrial safety:

• 12 ladders with various scaffolding materials
• 1 Hilti boring and 1 concrete-sawing machine for electrical/ventilation/access way penetration boring (Hilti provided operations training in Kyiv, and maintenance training in Moscow will occur in early 1998).
• 5 gas-bottle hand trucks
• 2 portable electric generators
• 1 air compressor
• 1 jack hammer.

The United States also will ship 28 two-way radios with complete supporting equipment. Delivery and use are expected in March 1998. Cost of the industrial safety equipment totals about $1.85 million.

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