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Lovelace MRF and Transfer Station Department of Public Works/Solid Waste Division Transfer Processing Report 14 County of San Joaquin September 16, 2024 • The compactor is equipped with an audible back-up alarm and working lights. • Operators alert personnel working on the tipping floor to equipment being operated on the tipping floor by the use of portable radios. Individuals without portable radios who are working on the tipping floor will be informed verbally by the staff person supervising them (i.e. Sheriff Inmate Supervisor, County staff). Staff who supervise Sheriff Inmate crews and Alternate Work Program participants have portable radios. Operators have been instructed to make their presence known to tipping floor personnel prior to operating equipment on the tipping floor. The following safety measures are taken while using the compactor on the tipping floor: • Only qualified personnel operate the compactor. • Personnel working on the tipping floor are made aware that the compactor is being used on the tipping floor via hand-held radio communication from the compactor operator, and the compactor operator does not operate the compactor until he receives acknowledgment from personnel working on the tipping floor. After this notice, workers maintain a minimum 100 ft distance from the compaction area. • All personnel on the tipping floor are required to wear highly visible safety vests, safety glasses, and hard hats. • All refuse received is screened for unacceptable wastes (i.e. hazardous waste, universal waste). • All equipment operators have been trained to be vigilante for cylinders, propane tanks, televisions, computer monitors and these items will be pulled out and not pushed with the refuse being “fed” to the compactor. • The compactor is equipped with an audible back up alarm and working lights. • The compactor operator also informs personnel working on the tipping floor when the compactor needs to be driven off the compaction pad, so that personnel may maintain the required safety distance from the compactor.