Title: Landscape Technician (Groundskeeper)
Category: Maintenance
Key Accountabilities / Activities
Do you take pride in your mowing? Can you tell a begonia from a crepe myrtle? You could be ready for a job as a groundskeeper for us. At Greener Future our Groundskeepers work on the lawns and grounds of houses, businesses, and parks to keep them healthy, pleasant, and free from giant, man-eating Venus Flytraps. Groundskeepers work exclusively on existing grounds and use various hand tools and gas-powered tools to mow and maintain grass, rake leaves, trim bushes and trees, plant flowers and shrubbery, remove dead plants, water, and fertilize vegetation and get grounds ready for seasonal changes.
Major Activities Include
• All aspects of year round property maintenance, including spring/fall
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• Maintain the appearance of fountains, planters, or other grounds features by cleaning, replacing or making repairs
• Maintain the appearance and safety of sidewalks, driveways, cart paths, or parking lots by filling in cracks, holes, and making other repairs
• Welcome and acknowledge each and every guest with a smile, eye contact and a friendly verbal greeting using the guests names when possible
• Compliance with all safety regulations of assigned tasks, and ensure a clean and safe working environment with active participation in the health and safety program
• Adhere to all environmental policies and programs as required
Other duties as assigned
The shoreline was subjected to many inspection tours, generally by EPS personnel, often in conjunction with members of other agencies such as fisheries officers, park wardens and Nova Scotia Department of Environment staff also provided valuable assistance. Each cleaned area was inspected to determine its suitability from an environmental viewpoint and EPS personnel advised the C.G. when cleanup became environmentally acceptable. Where re-oiling occurred, as it often did, the beach was reinspected after subsequent cleaning.
MAINTENANCE: Keep our station and boats running and looking great. Preventative maintenance, material condition, and house-keeping are the responsibilities of everyone.
Workers obligations are to identify, control or remove safety hazard if can, or reporting it to the safety officers. Workers main obligation is to take responsibility for their own safety and others.
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The role of the custodian is to maintain a clean and safe building as well as environment for the children and staff. The custodian may perform minor repairs and maintain lawn care. The advantage of having a custodian on payroll is that they are at the facility on a daily basis. He or she can address any unforeseen maintanence problems that occur. The custodian in most cases their hourly wage may be less than a contractors and when work needs to be done your facility won’t have to look for someone to do the job.
All board members should take the lead in ensuring the communication of health and safety duties and benefits throughout the organisation. Executive directors must develop policies to avoid health and safety problems and must respond quickly where difficulties arise or new risks are introduced; non-executives must make sure that health and safety is properly addressed.
Many people who have seen asphalt pavement soon after its installation praise the pavement's smooth finish and depth of color. As the years pass, however, the pavement can begin to show signs of damage from the weather or traffic. If the pavement has been protected by sealcoating and received timely repairs, the evidence of aging may not become noticeable for 10 or 15 years. However, if repairs have been ignored and sealcoating has not been maintained, the pavement may appear antiquated within five or six years. Regardless of the pavement's chronological age and maintenance history, the time will come when the property owner decides that something needs to be done. At this point, the question of whether "something" means paving or sealcoating
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Meeting your co-workers and applying the skills you learned in training months before in front of bosses can be extremely nerve-wrecking. The aquatic staff begins working three weeks prior to the opening to prepare the pool. Due to the pool being abandoned all but three months out of the year, a large amount of dirt is accumulated throughout the concession stand, restrooms, guard rooms and office therefore, at least three days are spent power washing the entire building. Thankfully, all of the important documents and items in the pool house are covered to prevent damage from the dirt and dust. The most steroids task of cleaning is dragging out everything from storage and cleaning the pool gear. Unfortunately, the pool has at least 30 tanning chairs and six tables, each with chairs, that guards drag out of storage, clean, and finally place them in their spots in which they would stay for three months. Furthermore, the cleaning is one of the strenuous parts of the job, but once that is done the fun activities
What do groundskeepers and maintenance workers do on the job? The grounds keeping and maintenance crew do a variety of things to keep up and make this school look amazing. The head groundskeeper of the school said “I love my job and it is the best job out there”. The groundskeepers here make the school look great.
Today it acts as the federal jurisdiction for employers (both in the public and private sector) to provide safe and healthy environments for employees. It covers all occupational industries, covering a wide range of hazards such as chemicals, physical and mechanical danger, pathogenic viruses, and more. The act created the governmental organization, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), which is part of the United States Department of Labor. The Secretary of Labor and Assistance Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health will oversee OSHA. Besides enforcing workplace safety through inspection, OSHA provides training and information covering the topics in the remainder of this paper. These training sessions are often in the form of OSHA 10- or 30-hour courses, which many employers will require their employees to enroll in ("Occupational Safety and Health Act of
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