POWERNEWSWE WILL MANUFACTURE BENCHMARK CASTINGS WITH PRIDE, LETTING SAFETY,

QUALITY, COST, AND ON TIME DELIVERY TO OUR CUSTOMERS BE OUR GUIDE.January 31, 2019

EXAMPLESAllowed in Plant 2 with

exclusion to melting areasNot Allowed ANYWHERE

in Plant 2

Updated Safety Policy Reminder:

• We have never been allowed to have cans or bottles in melting areas, so this is not new.

• The new portion of the policy references aluminum cans and glass bottles in buildings that house melting opera-tions. Since we do not have melting operations in plant 1 it does not apply. It applies to all of plant 2. Alumi-num cans and glass bottles are banned from all areas in plant 2.

• Keep in mind the SafeStart states:

• Rushing

• Frustration

• Fatigue

• Complacency • The states lead to critical errors:

• Eyes not on Task

• Mind not on Task

• Line of Fire

• Balance/Traction/Grip• Remember the Critical Error Reduction Techniques:

• Self Trigger

• Analyze Close Calls and Small Errors

• Look at others for Patterns that increase the risk of injury

• Work on Habits

SafeStart

Super Bowl I, aka AFL-NFL World Championship Game In 1966, two football leagues were vying for gridiron dominance: the venerable NFL and the sport's new-comer, the AFL. On June 8, 1966, the two leagues an-nounced their plans to merge, rather than compete over players and a split fan base. This meant a new championship game had to be conceived that would show which was the dominant league every year. To-day we know it as the Super Bowl—one of the most polished, extravagant events of the entire year. But on January 15, 1967, when the first AFL-NFL World Cham-pionship Game took place, it was something border-ing on a disaster, with television mishaps, a dispute over the name, and thousands of empty seats marring the very first Super Bowl Sunday. To see how the big game nearly fell apart, here are a few facts about the first Super Bowl.IT WAS ONLY CASUALLY KNOWN AS THE SUPER BOWL AT FIRST. In 1966, meetings were going on about the first-ever championship game between the NFL and the upstart AFL set to be played in January of that next year. In addition to talking about location and logistics, the big question on everyone’s mind was what to call it. Though Pete Rozelle, the NFL’s commissioner at the time, suggested names like The Big One and The Pro Bowl (which was the same name as the NFL’s own all-star game), it was eventually decided that the game would be called … the AFL-NFL World Championship Game. A name like that just doesn’t create much buzz, though, and the newly merged league needed something punchier. Then Lamar Hunt, owner of the Kansas City Chiefs, recalled a toy his children played with, a Super Ball, which led to his idea: the Super Bowl. The name picked up support from fans and the media, but Rozelle hated it, viewing the word “Super” as too informal. By the time the game began, the tickets read “AFL-NFL World Championship Game,” but people were still offhandedly refer-ring to it as the Super Bowl. By the fourth year, the league caved and finally printed Super Bowl on the game's tickets. For

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Ground Hog Day

Groundhog Day is celebrated in the U.S. each year on Feb-ruary 2. On this day in mid-winter, the groundhog awakens from a long winter's nap, and goes outside of his den to see if he sees his shadow. This tradition is big, on an otherwise cold and dreary mid-winter's day. According to legend, if the groundhog sees his shadow (a sunny morning), there will be six more weeks of winter. He then returns to his den and goes back to sleep. If however, he does not see his shadow (cloudy days), he plays around outside of his hole for a while. If he does not see his shad-ow, spring is just around the corner. The Groundhog's Day tradition travelled long ways. It comes from German roots. In the early 1800's, German im-migrants to America, brought the tradition of predicting winter weather on February 2. In their native Germany, they used Hedgehogs to predict weather. As they settled in the hills of Pennsylvania, they began the tradition, using the Groundhog to predict the the arrival of Spring. The tradition is based upon Candlemas, the day that is the midpoint be-tween Winter and Spring. A famous Candlemas poems goes: If Candlemas be fair and bright, Winter has another flight. If Candlemas brings clouds and rain, Winter will not come again. Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania is the site of the annual Groundhog event. Our little rodent friend (yes, Groundhogs are classified as rodents) is called Punxsutawney Phil. He has been making this annual winter prediction since 1887. There are a few other "predictors" around the country, but they all pale in comparison to Phil's ability to predict the remainder of winter. For the Record Phil sees his shadow about 9 out of 10 times Punxsutawney Phil is not the only one to come out on Feb-ruary 2 to make a prediction on when winter will be over. He is by far the best known. Others include: • Buckeye Chuck in Ohio • General Beauregard Lee in Georgia

Groundhog Day Trivia: Groundhog Day the movie, pre-miered in 1993. During the filming of Groundhog Day, Bill Murray was bitten by the groundhog twice during shooting. He had to have rabies shots. By Holiday Insights

Super Bowl V, the Roman numerals made their debut and stayed there every year except Super Bowl 50 in 2016. (The first three championship games have also been officially re-named Super Bowls retroactively.)THE GAME DIDN’T COME CLOSE TO A SELLOUT. The cheapest price for a Super Bowl 52 ticket is currently hovering around $3000, but frankly, you could probably charge people double that and the game would be a guar-anteed sellout. The first Super Bowl, however, didn’t quite have that same cachet behind it. With tickets averaging around $12, the AFL-NFL World Championship Game couldn’t manage to sell out the Los Angeles Memorial Coli-seum in 1967. It’s still the only Super Bowl not to fill up its venue. Despite blacking the game out on TV stations within 75 miles of the Coliseum to get fans to the stadium rather than watching at home, about a third of the stadium’s seats were empty. Some fans balked at the steep $12 ticket prices, while others were so incensed at the blackout that they stayed away out of protest. Whatever the reason, the sight of tens of thousands of empty seats for what was supposed to be the most important game in both leagues’ history was not what Rozelle had in mind when the Super Bowl was con-ceived.DIFFERENT RULES WERE USED FOR THE GAME. The overall product between the AFL and NFL weren’t that different, but there were a few hiccups when making the rules fair for both teams. The AFL’s two-point conversion rule, which it used for the entirety of its existence, was barred from the game, allowing only the traditional point-after field goal instead. When the AFL and NFL later merged, the two-point conversion was banished altogether until 1994, when it was reinstated league-wide.THE SECOND HALF KICKOFF HAD TO BE REDONE BECAUSE CAMERAS MISSED IT. When the second half of Super Bowl I began, everyone was ready for the kickoff: players, refs, and the production crew. Well, one production crew was ready, anyway. It turns out NBC missed the opening kickoff of the second half because the network was too busy airing an interview with Bob Hope. The kickoff had to be redone for the sake of nearly half the TV audience; even worse, some poor soul probably had to break the news to Packers coach Vince Lombardi.THE ORIGINAL BROADCAST FOOTAGE IS CURRENTLY IN LE-GAL LIMBO. Unlike today, where games are DVR’ed, saved, edited into YouTube clips, and preserved for all eternity, there is no complete copy of the broadcast edition of Super Bowl I. In 2005, a man from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, found a copy of the CBS broadcast in his attic, which had been recorded by his father on two-inch quadruplex tapes. However, the halftime show and parts of the third quarter are missing. The footage has been digitally restored and is currently locked in a vault at The Paley Center for Media in Manhat-tan. To this day, it hasn’t been shown to the public as Troy Haupt, the tape’s owner, is in legal limbo with the NFL over the exact worth of the footage. By Jay Serafino

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LIFESTYLE CHALLENGE 1st initial Weigh-in is FEBRUARY 6th you can weigh-in

any day before that as well. 5 a.m. – 3 p.m. in the fitness center

Stop by, Weigh-in, use the % Body Fat monitor, and receive your Lifestyle Challenge Packet.

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Looking forward to guiding you on YOUR path to health, wellness, and movement this year!

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DUE TO THE EXTREME COLD THIS WEEK THE WEIGH-IN IS BEING RESCHEDULED FOR NEXT WEEK!!!

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Good Luck Amaraja!

Amaraja Dalvi’s coworkers threw her a farewell party on Tuesday. She will going back to her parent company, IET for a new assignment. Her last day is Friday, February 1. We would like to wish her all the best!

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LDT Workplace SafetyWe all need to take personal re-sponsibility for our safety so we can return home at the end of the day. The steering wheel symbol-izes we can choose the direction we decide to go. Make a personal decision. Our choice should al-ways be the safe route. It also rep-

resents the fact that we are on a journey, but that safety is in our hands and our control.Our brand is personal. We are not only focusing on the employee, but on our employees’ family, friends, and loved ones who want to see them return home safely.

At GM, safety is everyone’s busi-ness, and it’s everyone’s responsi-bility. Each of us owes it to our-selves and our coworkers to ensure we get home safe and sound at the end of the day. So be accountable for your actions, your well-being, and the safety of those around you. Own it.

Machine Guarding

Machine guards are one of the most important defenses we use to pre-vent injuries and fatali-ties at UAW-GM manu-facturing facilities. If

there’s a chance that a worker may come into harmful contact with running machinery, we will guard against that contact in every viable way. This is a joint UAW/GM policy. There are no ex-ceptions. It’s human nature to become complacent about things that are familiar. You can get used to hav-

ing guards in place and forget their original pur-pose. We need to remind ourselves, every day, that these guards are saving lives and keeping limbs intact. About twenty percent of all injuries in the work-place are caused by contact with running machin-ery. Machines that cut metal will cut off a finger or an arm without a second’s pause. Machines that punch holes will punch through flesh and bone. Robots cannot tell the difference between a human body part and an auto body part. Ma-chines are very dangerous and we should never forget that fact. In addition to machine guards, which are typically some type of barrier, there are also safeguards on some machines and systems that detect access or prevent inadvertent access. These can be inter-locks, light curtains or safety mats, etc. The de-vices are there to protect you from injury or even death. Please always respect these systems and never try to bypass or “cheat” the system. Your safety is on the line.

Make Safety Number One