Food processing workers and employees face numerous health, wellness, and safety hazards every day in the workplace. Many of these risks involve slips, trips, and falls.
The OSHA Top 10 list sees a drop in total safety violations, but fall protection keeps a tight hold on the No. 1 spot, and lockout/tagout moves up the annual safety violations list released by the federal government’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Has your shop floor adopted Prevention through Design? Better MRO explains PtD’s goals, value and impact on your metalworking staff.
What’s it like for the EHS chief at a startup venture on a mission to achieve zero plastic waste on the planet through a revolutionary approach to producing food-grade packaging from recycled PET? Find out in this interview with Venessa Cardenas, environmental health and safety manager at rPlanet Earth.
What’s the ROI of workplace safety? There are multiple ways safety can add to a business’s bottom line. Better MRO takes a look at why it makes sense to think about safety as an investment versus an expense in manufacturing.
Manufacturing safety chiefs have a chance to influence updates to OSHA’s lockout/tagout rules and how they will affect new technologies on the shop floor. But the deadline to submit comments to the federal government’s request for information is looming.
This hazardous chemical exposure PPE cheat sheet provides a quick reference guide about the four EPA levels for personal protective equipment that will help manufacturing shop floors comply with OSHA workplace safety regulations.
Minimize injuries and fatalities from dropped objects.
To foster safety culture, start at the very top and very bottom of a company. To make it a reality, you have to benchmark and measure it.
Want to improve safety culture? One expert says you have to move upstream and understand what’s creating risk in the business and operational process.