Safety Training
Workplace Wellness
Establishing a workplace wellness program can help manufacturers and machine shops cut healthcare costs and retain workers amid a widening labor shortage.
Providing a safe, supportive working environment means caring for the mental health of employees as well as the physical. Here are five ways that manufacturers can improve mental health in the workplace.
Shift work and safety: Here’s how to protect your workers.
Training & Certification
Workplace safety professionals who attain certification not only improve their salary prospects but also become better at helping their employers prevent job-related accidents and injuries.
Safety organizations offer courses on a variety of topics vital to preventing injuries in metalworking facilities.
What does it take to become a safety professional? We outline the training and education required to achieve CSP and industrial hygienist certification.
If these recommended practices appear challenging, here are some simple steps you can take to get started. Completing these steps will give you a solid base from which to take on some of the more structured actions presented in the recommended practices.
On Jan. 17, 2017, OSHA began enforcing policy that requires businesses to provide training programs to combat workplace falls. But with so many citations surrounding the policy, it’s clear most businesses aren’t up to speed on what’s required.
SAFETY TRAINING VIDEO SERIES
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The rules for first aid can be confusing—especially when it comes to the differences in first-aid kits. Follow these three tips in the video.
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Do you know the history of today’s hazard communications standard and how it came to be? Get a better understanding of the standards for hazard communications in the video.
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Learn all about the different levels of protective clothing for chemical exposure in this video.
There is so much to know about being fit tested for respirators. Get all the details in our video.
Emergency Training
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The Certified Safety Professional and Master Safety Professional designations both demonstrate a person’s high level of expertise and dedication to safety best practices. Take a look at these two certifications for the manufacturing industry.
Fines for failing to protect workers from on-the-job falls surged 25 percent to $36.2 million in 2022. The regulation requiring fall protection topped the U.S. Occupational
Safety and Health Administration’s list of most-violated rules for the 12th straight year.
With the high-powered equipment used in manufacturing facilities and machine shops, pinch-point hazards can be debilitating and even deadly. And they’re everywhere.