Zach F Everett

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Roles


Legacy Masonry, LLC


Employee - 1980-2023

Our mission is to deliver superior, profitable masonry craftsmanship while maintaining a strong reputation for safety, quality, schedule, integrity, responsiveness, and value to the customer....


MCAA Safety Committee


Chairman

The Safety Committee is responsible for the development of safety programs for the mason contractor as well as keeping the industry informed on key safety issues. ...


Brazos Masonry


Employee

Our mission is to deliver superior, profitable masonry craftsmanship while maintaining a strong reputation for safety, quality, schedule, integrity, responsiveness, and value to the customer....


Engineering Out Silica Hazards

In recent months, we have addressed the dangers of silica exposure. Unfortunately, we often think of protection from silica in the form of PPE. Suppose there's silica; put on a respirator. This should be the last resort.

Silica Safety: Silica and the Tragedy of the Hawk’s Nest Tunnel

Do you think silica is dangerous? Is it blown out of proportion by OSHA? The Hawk's Nest tragedy was a horrific incident of immorality against workers by overt neglect as it pertains to silica exposure.

Why Are Safety Communications Important?

Why Are Safety Communications Important?

MCAA Safety Talks and Their Positive Impact

MCAA Safety Talks and Their Positive Impact

Critical Root-Cause Analysis (Part Two)

Critical Root-Cause Analysis (Part Two)

Critical Root-Cause Analysis (Part One)

Critical Root-Cause Analysis (Part One)

Thanksgiving Fire Prevention Safety

Thanksgiving Day has more than double the number of home cooking fires than an average day according to the U.S. Fire Administration.

Scaffold Hazards

Employees should be able to list the three most serious hazards which may be present during scaffold use.

Near Miss Reporting

Whether there is no injury, a small bruise or scratch, or an amputation, the consequences of unsafe acts and conditions are left to chance.

Signs of a Stroke

Sometimes symptoms of a stroke are difficult to identify. Unfortunately, the lack of awareness spells disaster.

Elevated Surfaces Checklist

The following checklist may help you take steps to avoid hazards that cause injuries, illnesses and fatalities.

Individual Quality Makes the Difference

Failure to do things correctly can jeopardize the health and safety of those around us, as well as our own well being.

Keeping Seatbelts Safe

By law, most passenger cars on the road today should be equipped with seat safety belts, and many trucks also have this life saving equipment.

Lightning Safety

If the sky looks threatening or you hear thunder, get inside a substantial building - one with wiring and plumbing.

Danger Using Utility Knives

There’s one hand tool that demands your respect over many others in the workplace, a tool that can cut you to the bone in an instant — the utility knife.

Guardrails, Handrails and Covers

No matter what type of construction work you're in you see guardrails, handrails and covers on a regular basis.

Supported Scaffold Safety Tips

Supported scaffolds consist of one or more platforms supported by beams, brackets, poles, legs, uprights, posts, frames, or similar rigid support.

The Basics of Safety

If you are unsure how to perform a task, ask your supervisor. Don't guess. Make sure you know in advance the correct, safe way to do it.

OSHA Rule on Drinking Water

We need to make sure each project is in compliance with the OSHA standards concerning Potable Water.

Protective Footwear

You may or may not have given protective footwear much thought. Wearing the right shoes will help you do a better job, and do it safer.

Heat Stress 2

By following heat-related safety tips, employers can aid in protecting employees from extreme heat conditions.

Respirators

A respirator is an important piece of personal protective equipment that may be worn for many different reasons.

Fall Protection Information

Each year, falls result in many serious injuries, and approximately 20% of all falls are fatal. This means that for every five persons involved in a falling accident, one dies.

Selecting the Right Gloves

You now have even more reason to wear your protective equipment since OSHA has added hand safety to its standard on personal protective equipment.

Why Have Safety Meetings?

Safety meetings are an opportunity for management and your safety department to communicate to employees how they can do their jobs safer and better.

Ladder Safety Rules

Gravity never forgets. As soon as you set foot on the ladder’s first rung and pull your body off the ground, gravity works to bring you back to earth.

Last chance to enter Safety Advantage Awards

Submissions for the 2019 MCAA Safety Advantage Awards, sponsored by Federated Insurance, are due June 30, 2019. This is your last chance to enter the awards.

Heat Exhaustion and Sunstroke

Heat exhaustion is caused by the loss of body salt, and sunstroke occurs when the body mechanism is not able to keep the system cool.

Forklift Operator Retraining

Refresher training shall be conducted to ensure that the operator has the knowledge and skills needed to operate the powered industrial truck safely.

Scaffold Access

Getting to your work position on a scaffold may seem easy enough. Just climb the end frames or cross braces, right? WRONG!

Safety Advantage Awards submissions due June 30

Submissions for the MCAA Safety Advantage Awards, sponsored by Federated Insurance, are due June 30, 2019.

Cement/Concrete Safety

Getting cement dust or wet cement on your skin can cause burns, rashes, and other kinds of skin irritation. Lime, found in most cements, is often the cause.

Welding and Cutting Safety Tips 2

Today's construction workers in welding and cutting must not only protect themselves from injury, but also must assume responsibility for their helpers and co-workers.

Identifying Construction Hazards

The following examples are intended to remind workers of the typical construction hazards we see regularly with hopes that everyone will put safety first and correct hazards as they find them.

Injury Management Flow Chart

Injuries are going to happen and we want to be ready when they do. An injury management flow chart will help minimize costs and worker pain.

Accidents

Too often hazardous conditions come to our attention only after someone is hurt or seriously injured.

Crane Safety Checklist

The following checklist may help you take steps to avoid hazards that cause injuries, illnesses and fatalities.

Construction

Nearly 6.5 million people work at approximately 252,000 construction sites across the nation on any given day.

Don’t Let Your Luck Run Out

Safety does not come naturally. It requires you to constantly ask questions and educate yourself.

Enter the MCAA Safety Advantage Awards

Submissions are now open for the 2019 MCAA Safety Advantage Awards, sponsored by Federated Insurance

Hand Protection Checklist

The following checklist may help you take steps to avoid hazards that cause injuries, illnesses and fatalities.

More Information on Scaffold Inspection

Scaffolding must be erected on firm footing capable of carrying the maximum intended load. Boxes, barrels, loose concrete blocks or brick must not be used to support the structure.

Scaffolding Safety

Scaffolds are used every day in construction, providing a place to work from, and used in con-junction with other scaffolds, they become support structures or platforms to store material.

Common Sense and Accident Prevention

You can do a quality job without rushing. This is just common sense - something smart workers use!

Forklift Operator Responsibility

Make sure you are aware of your surroundings, blowing your horn and doing the things needed to ensure your coworkers go home safe.

The Fire Triangle

Fire can be compared to a triangle. Three sides are necessary to make a triangle and three ingredients are necessary to cause a fire.

Winter Driving Part 2

The expert driver is constantly on the lookout for areas that might induce skidding, such as unexpected ice patches or piles of wet leaves, to be found especially in shady areas or on overpasses.

Ladder Safety

Before using a ladder, inspect it for faults, such as broken rungs or rails. If it is an extension ladder, inspect the pulleys, ropes and locks for excessive wear.

Working Around Trenches and Excavations

With little or no warning, unprotected, improperly shored, or improperly sloped trenches and walls can collapse, trapping anyone below or close thereto.

Forklifts

Approximately 100 employees are fatally injured and approximately 95,000 employees are injured every year while operating powered industrial trucks.

Personal Fall Arrest System Use, Care and Inspection

Would you gamble with your life? A lot of people do when they fail to inspect their personal fall arrest equipment daily.

All in Fun

There's nothing wrong with a little fun at work, but it's important to know the difference between having fun and at-risk behavior to place yourself or a coworker in harms way.

Forklift Safety

Forklifts assist us with various tasks around a construction site. Most of us take them for granted without giving a great deal of thought to safety.

Driving and Drugs

Drugs can interfere with the body's normal warning symptoms of drowsiness and fatigue. Drivers can use up their body energy without realizing it.

Wheelbarrow Safety Tips

A wheelbarrow by itself will not harm you or anyone else. You are responsible for how well a wheelbarrow is handled and stored for safety.

Equipment Safety

Inspection is not just checking for safety rails, toeboards, ladders, etc., but for the condition of the equipment as well.

Avoid Common Office Injuries

Although offices are not considered to be high hazard work environments, injuries happen when risks are not controlled or when people get careless.

Hard Hats and Fall Protection

Do you think that the use of personal protective equipment is over-rated? Here are two actual stories.

Eye and Face Protection

Eye and face protection is protective equipment such as spectacles, goggles, face shields, or welding shields that are designed to protect the wearer against a variety of hazards.

MIssing Ground Prong

You probably have been told many times about the dangers of using defective electrical equipment. If you have used such equipment and got away with it, count yourself lucky.

Safe Scaffold Platforms

Many construction workers have died due to improperly built or maintained scaffold platforms. That includes mason construction workers too.

Last chance to enter Safety Advantage Awards

Submissions to the MCAA Safety Advantage Awards are due by June 30, 2018. This is your last chance to enter the awards.

Safety Advantage Awards submissions due June 30

Submissions to the MCAA Safety Advantage Awards are due by June 30, 2018.

Heat Information Sheet

Extreme heat can cause headaches, dizziness/light headedness, weakness, mood changes, vomiting, fainting, and pale clammy skin.

Life Changing Injuries

Life changing injuries are those injuries that will change our life and impact our co-workers, families and friends.

Electrical Safety Checklist

The following checklist may help you take steps to avoid hazards that cause injuries, illnesses and fatalities. Be cautious and seek help if you are concerned about a potential hazard.

Enter the MCAA Safety Advantage Awards

Submissions are now open for the 2018 MCAA Safety Advantage Awards. Our goal is for the MCAA safety awards to help draw attention to the benefits of safety.

Last chance to enter Safety Advantage Awards

Submissions to the MCAA Safety Advantage Awards are due by June 30, 2017. This is your last chance to enter the awards.

Safety Advantage Awards submissions due June 30

Submissions to the MCAA Safety Advantage Awards are due by June 30, 2017.

MCAA Gateway: June 2017

MCAA Gateway: June 2017

Enter the MCAA Safety Advantage Awards

Submissions are now open for the 2017 MCAA Safety Advantage Awards. Our goal is for the MCAA safety awards to help draw attention to the benefits of safety.

Scaffolding Best Practices You Might Not Know

Scaffolding Best Practices You Might Not Know

Jobsite Safety Inspections

There are many reasons why workplace safety inspections are essential. Safety inspections prevent injuries, illnesses, and deaths on the job.

Last chance to enter Safety Advantage Awards

Submissions to the MCAA Safety Advantage Awards are due by June 30, 2016. This is your last chance to enter the awards.

Safety Advantage Awards submissions due June 30

Submissions to the MCAA Safety Advantage Awards are due by June 30, 2016.

Scaffold accountability and responsibility

By understanding the four areas of differing accountability and responsibility, and the related accountability to safety, we can avoid injuries or even fatalities.

Enter the MCAA Safety Advantage Awards

Submissions are now open for the 2016 MCAA Safety Advantage Awards. Our goal is for the MCAA safety awards to help draw attention to the benefits of safety.

Last chance to enter Safety Advantage Awards

Submissions to the MCAA Safety Advantage Awards are due by June 30, 2015. This is your last chance to enter the awards.

Safety Advantage Awards submissions due June 30

Submissions to the MCAA Safety Advantage Awards are due by June 30, 2015.

New weaponry for fighting crime

With a focus on leads from their new rule, the evidence is right there — laying in the hospital bed or on the floor underneath the saw. OSHA's job just got a whole lot easier.

Challenges in fall protection

No company wants one of its team members to suffer a fall, regardless of the severity. The lengths to which the company will go to accomplish this is another story.

Enter the MCAA Safety Advantage Awards

Submissions are now open for the 2015 MCAA Safety Advantage Awards. Our goal is for the MCAA safety awards to help draw attention to the benefits of safety.

Last chance to enter Safety Advantage Awards

Submissions to the MCAA Safety Advantage Awards are due by June 30, 2014. This is your last chance to enter the awards.

Safety Advantage Awards submissions due June 30

Submissions to the MCAA Safety Advantage Awards are due by June 30, 2014.

How to hold a safety meeting

A safety meeting is a necessary part of running a masonry job. Weekly safety meetings are needed, and many crews start every day with a safety meeting.

Enter the MCAA Safety Advantage Awards

Submissions are now open for the 2014 MCAA Safety Advantage Awards. Our goal is for the MCAA safety awards to help draw attention to the benefits of safety.

Report of the MCAA Safety Committee

The report of the MCAA Safety Committee presented at the 2014 MCAA Convention in Las Vegas.

Last chance to enter Safety Advantage Awards

Submissions to the MCAA Safety Advantage Awards are due by June 30, 2013. This is your last chance to enter the awards.

Safety Advantage Awards submissions due June 30

Submissions to the MCAA Safety Advantage Awards are due by June 30, 2013.

Enter the MCAA Safety Advantage Awards

Submissions are now open for the 2013 MCAA Safety Advantage Awards. Our goal is for the MCAA safety awards to help draw attention to the benefits of safety.

Report of the MCAA Safety Committee

The report of the MCAA Safety Committee presented at the 2013 MCAA Convention in Las Vegas.

Last chance to enter Safety Advantage Awards

Submissions to the 2012 MCAA Safety Advantage Awards are due by June 30, 2012.

Jobsite inspections

Our chief motivation for having safety inspections should be to prevent one of our work family members from being hurt.

Safety Advantage Awards submissions due June 30

Submissions to the 2012 MCAA Safety Advantage Awards are due by June 30, 2012.

MCAA announces Safety Advantage Awards

2012 will be the first year for the MCAA to begin presenting mason contractors with awards for exemplary performance in safety.

Report of the MCAA Safety Committee

The report of the MCAA Safety Committee presented at the 2012 MCAA Convention in Las Vegas, Nev.

Changing Employee Attitudes Toward Safety

We can draw a few parallels from Sir Winston Churchill to the subject of shifting an employee’s attitude toward safety.

Report of the MCAA Safety Committee

The report of the MCAA Safety Committee presented at the 2010 MCAA Convention in Las Vegas, Nev.

Is Your Back Outta Whack?

The mention of back injuries makes mason contractors cringe, and for good reason.

Does the Economy Affect Safety for a Mason Contractor?

Whether the economy affects safety can only be answered by each mason contractor, and it can vary.