SAIF is featuring two coastal organizations in the new web video series, Oregon Odd Jobs.
At Lincoln City Glass Center, owner and founder Kelly Howard showed host Corey Jenkins, SAIF’s creative services supervisor, how to blow one of their famous glass floats while staying safe on the job.
In Newport, Oregon Coast Aquarium mammologist Megan Pros, environmental health and safety manager Patricia Howe, and aquarist Abby Henderson walked Corey through the care and feeding of the aquarium’s many animals.
Both episodes of the series are available on YouTube or at saif.com/oddjobs.
SAIF is taking a look at uniquely Oregon jobs across the state, and how they’re done safely. More information is below, and interviews are available by request.
SAIF visited workplaces across the state to create a new YouTube series, Oregon Odd Jobs. The series showcases uniquely Oregon jobs and how they’re done safely.
“While safety is everyone's responsibility, we all go about it differently depending on the job we do,” says SAIF safety consultant Dawn Jacobs. “Oregon Odd Jobs highlights the weird and wonderful while giving us a look at how Oregonians stay safe.”
Among other things, the videos teach how these businesses find safety success as they combat complacency, stay alert to surrounding hazards, keep up with safety innovations, and put safety redundancies in place.
The first three episodes feature Homestead Log Homes in Central Point, Oregon Potato Company in Boardman, and Oaks Park Amusement Park in Portland. Host Corey Jenkins, SAIF’s creative services supervisor, tries his hand at building log homes, grinding potatoes, and inspecting roller coasters.
SAIF will publish new episodes every two weeks. Future episodes include wrangling llamas, blowing glass, and feeding sharks.
Subscribe to SAIF’s YouTube page for future episodes and other safety-related videos.
About SAIF
SAIF is Oregon's not-for-profit workers' compensation insurance company. Since 1914, we've been taking care of injured workers, helping people get back to work, and striving to make Oregon the safest and healthiest place to work. For more information, visit the About SAIF page on saif.com.
What: SAIF will be presenting a free half-day seminar on agricultural safety and health on Tuesday, March 14.
Who should attend: The seminar is designed primarily for people working in agriculture but is open to anyone interested in ag safety and health — they don't have to be insured by SAIF.
When: Tuesday, March 14 from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Lunch is included.
Where: Klamath County Fairgrounds’ exhibit hall #2, located at 3531 South 6th Street.
More information: Below and at www.saif.com/agseminars. Photos from previous seminars are available by request.
SAIF will be touring the state in the next few months to offer free farm safety sessions.
The 29 free ag safety seminars will be in 17 cities across Oregon. The first will be in Ontario on October 25, and they'll continue through March. Nine of the seminars will be presented entirely in Spanish.
SAIF has put the seminars on for the last 29 years, helping Oregon’s farm owners, managers, and workers stay safe in one of the most hazardous industries. SAIF offered online webinars the last two years in lieu of in-person events.
“We are excited to get back on the road to offer these critical safety trainings this year,” said Courtney Merriott, senior safety management consultant at SAIF and one of the seminar presenters. “Being able to get out into the ag community is more effective as we look at reducing hazards in this industry.”
This year's seminars will focus on four topics: ag hacks and ag myth busters; coexisting with agricultural chemicals; balancing the effects of heat and the effects of OSHA’s new heat rule; and first responders on the farm.
SAIF will also host online webinars in December and March in both English and Spanish.
The seminars are designed primarily for people working in agriculture but are open to anyone interested in ag safety and health — they don't have to be insured by SAIF.
In-person seminars will be held in Bandon, Boring, Central Point, Corvallis, Eugene, Hermiston, Hillsboro, Hood River, Klamath Falls, La Grande, Madras, Milton-Freewater, Mt. Angel, Ontario, Salem, The Dalles, and Wilsonville.
Spanish seminars will be held in Central Point, Hermiston, Hillsboro, Hood River, Madras, Mt. Angel, Salem, The Dalles, and Wilsonville.
All will run from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., and lunch will be provided.
Employers with small ag businesses who attend the seminar, or watch the webinars, will meet OSHA's instructional requirement — one of four requirements that exempt small agricultural operations from random OSHA inspections.
Three hours of technical and one hour of business continuing education credits are available from the Landscape Contractors Board. Four producer continuing education credit hours for licensed insurance agents are approved by the Department of Consumer and Business Services.
More information — including registration details — can be found at www.saif.com/agseminars.
About SAIF
SAIF is Oregon's not-for-profit workers' compensation insurance company. Since 1914, we've been taking care of injured workers, helping people get back to work, and striving to make Oregon the safest and healthiest place to work. For more information, visit the About SAIF page on saif.com.