Wisner, Nebraska July 4, 2016 July 8, 2016

Wisner, Nebraska July 4, 2016 – July 8, 2016

Everyday:

If nobody has a topic, I present the safety topic every morning during the safety meeting. I go on the Safety Toolbox Topics website and find something that I think needs to be brought up or that relates to something that has happened recently that we go over and talk about what could have been done to make it safer.

Monday:

Independence Day!

Tuesday:

This morning I learned how to calculate everyone’s timecards from last week and I made sure that they were correct and were getting credit for the hours they worked. I signed it and then Damon double checked it to make sure my math was right. I got some of them wrong because I didn’t realize that if you work more than 8 hours a day, that counts as overtime. Someone work 13 hours one day and I counted that towards their 40 hours but only 8 hours counts for that, the other 5 was overtime. After that was done, I was going to help out at the pits for a while, but Angie got sick so I was needed to run the scale and probe. I ran the scale, graded grain and looked up some of our environmental policies for the rest of the day. Damon and I also listened to the weekly safety call.

Wednesday:

Joe showed me how to do the Grain Quality Report this morning. He showed me how to input the grain bin measurements and run the report to check them against Rod’s numbers to make sure the numbers we got were accurate. After that, I got to work on some housekeeping work around the 300 and 400 series bins. I swept up the dust and got all of the water out of the tunnels between 401 and 402 and cleaned out the boot pit below pit 4. Then I continued cleaning up the beans between 306 and 302. Chris and Damon came to help me around the end of the day and we cleaned up pit 3 before we left for the day.

Thursday:

Today I ran pit 3 for a while and continued cleaning it to keep it looking good. Around lunchtime, I went in to run the scale for Angie because she needed to take her daughter to a doctor’s appointment. I ran the scale and graded corn for a few hours and briefly met Michael Means while he was touring the facility with Joe and Damon. After Angie got back, I went on my computer and continued researching some of our environmental policies, specifically spill containment because that relates to my project.

Friday:

Today Joe wanted me to get started on some of the things I need to do for next week. Being that we’ll be in Illinois for three days of that week, I thought that was a good idea. So I began working on my grain flow chart. I’m working on just pit 4 right now, and it’s looking really good. I did that for a good majority of the day but I had to stop once to help load trucks and another time because we were having some trouble with pit 3. The belts on pit 3’s motor came off so Damon and I had to replace them. This was the first time I wrote the JSA completely by myself, with only a little help from Damon. After that was done Damon and I grabbed our tools and headed out to pit 4. Damon had me lock everything out which was another first for me. I locked out the pit, leg, and reclaim drag so there would be no chance of us getting injured by them turning on. Damon then checked to make sure they were actually off by trying to start them and then we got started. It was a little more difficult than we thought, because it was kind of hard to get to the belts but we eventually got to them and got them replaced.