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How to Use Let's Talk Safety

The American Water Works Association is pleased to provide you with this 2019 edition of Let's Talk Safety. AWWA Health, Safety, and Environment Committee members have reviewed and suggested updates to the discussion topics to ensure they continue to be current, pertinent, and beneficial to you and your employees.

Website addresses at the end of nearly every article allow you and your staff to conduct deeper research into particular safety topics. Because AWWA members and Let's Talk Safety subscribers have asked that many articles be updated and repeated every year, these users can be assured that these essential articles comprise this edition. Many safety topics remain extremely important and warrant regular discussions.

AWWA's companion product set, Let's Talk Safety 2019 Dual Disc Set (No. 10125-19), includes a PDF of the full book on CD, which allows easy printing of selected pages, and a DVD containing 12 video clips-each corresponding to a specific talk in the book. The talks that are accompanied by a video icon in the table of contents have companion video clips; those followed by an asterisk are new or have been updated since the previous edition of Let's Talk Safety. Refer to the back pages of this book for a selection of books, standards, and manuals, as well as a listing of AWWA's extensive Safety First and other safety DVDs, that can augment safety awareness training. All of these products are available at www. awwa.org/store.

We are all seeking an injury-free work environment. Our universal goal is to have every employee, every day, return home to his or her family uninjured. We believe that the first step to not being injured is knowing that you can be injured. Let's Talk Safety is designed to help you build awareness of potential work hazards and provide safety practices that help mitigate those hazards. Talking to your employees about their safety and listening to their safety concerns and experiences are the foundation to building an effective safety culture. This book will help you open up important safety dialogues and give you common starting points for discussion. You may also want to consider placing these articles in your employee safety publications.