EMPLOYEE PROHIBITED WORK LIST
Manpower believes that all workers have the right to a safe and healthful workplace. For your protection, we will not knowingly ask you to perform work at a work site or be exposed to an environment that is unsafe.
After reporting to work, should your assignment unexpectedly change to include ANY of the work listed below, it is essential that you inform your Staffing Specialist IMMEDIATELY for further instructions. Do not perform any of the following tasks without instructions from your Staffing Specialist. The following list is not all-inclusive. If work involves exposure to other obvious safety hazards, immediately contact your Manpower Staffing Specialist.
General Activities:
- Work in excess of one story in height (inside or outside) on a roof or where the use of ladders or scaffolding is required.
- Any work activity which takes place three feet or more below ground level, such as excavating or trenching.
- Working in any facility that involves direct exposure to molten metals.
- Any driving where the total vehicle weight (including load) exceeds five tons (10,000 lbs.) or requires a Commercial Driver’s License (CDL).
- Work on a forklift or other powered industrial truck for which you have not received formal training.
- Working in auto wrecking, junk or salvage yards.
- Work requiring the use of supplied or self-contained breathing apparatus.
- Work where there is exposure to X-rays or radioactive isotopes of any kind..
- Work requiring direct contact or exposure to asbestos fibers.
- Work where there is direct exposure to hazardous chemicals.
Specific Activities:
- Work inside any confined spaces such as pits, silos, vats, tanks, tunnels or sewers.
- Moving or demolition of buildings.
- Work at waste disposal sites that require handling of any hazardous materials.
- Work inside grain elevators or other facilities with high dust concentrations.
- Operating a chainsaw.
- Mounting tires on wheels.
- Work involving mixing or use of creosote.
- Work involving the manufacturing or handling of fireworks or explosives.
- Erection of steel structures or scaffolding.
- Work that requires the handling or use of pesticides, herbicides or poisons.
- Work that requires direct contact with acids.
- Work in quarries or sawmills.
- Working with live animals, including livestock and pets.
- Operation or set up of rides or equipment at carnivals or amusement parks.
- Collection of garbage or recycled materials.
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