This month’s Safety Focus addresses a critical topic—protecting maintenance staff by focusing on preventing incidents involving a range of hazards. Training protocols for issues such as new staff onboarding and refresher training are laid out in a half-dozen or more provisions of TRSA’s Safety & Health Certification Standards. Examples include section 2.1, “Policies for Onboarding and Annual Refresher Training for Maintenance Teams”; and 4.17, “Lockout/Tagout policies for disabling equipment from power sources and locking them out before maintenance.”

For insights on these issues, we posed questions to TJ Peterson, TRSA’s Hygienically Clean Certification Auditor manager ...