Keeping up-to-date with the latest OSHA/ANSI codes can be a challenge for manufacturers. Advancements in machine safeguarding equipment give employers the potential to significantly impact the way they handle safety while also remaining compliant. There are five major trends in safeguarding for 2018, which can enhance productivity, lower costs and keep workers safe, including: 1. …
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OSHA Issues Seven Citations Against Goodyear
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration says tire manufacturer Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. was deficient in protecting employees at its Social Circle, Ga., facility from potential harm or death. According to the federal agency, investigators who inspected the site in August 2017 found that the company had failed to provide effective personal protective equipment …
Die Safety Blocks: Why They’re Needed and How to Use Them
Die safety blocks are called by many names: safety blocks, ram blocks, die blocks or prop blocks. Regardless of the term, die safety blocks all have the same purpose: provide protection to employees working in the die area from a free-falling upper die/slide. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data indicate that approximately three-fifths of all …
OSHA Proposal: Warnings/Delays No Longer Acceptable LockOut TagOut Alternatives
To address a federal court ruling, OSHA is proposing to take one word out of its Control of Hazardous Energy standard that could cause some companies to have to redo their lockout/tagout programs. This is just one of 18 proposed changes to OSHA’s recordkeeping, general industry, maritime and construction standards in an Oct. 4, 2016, …
SLC 2016: LOTO vs. Alternative Protective Measures
Safety doesn’t have to come at the expense of productivity. That was the common refrain ringing through every session the Smart Manufacturing track at the 2016 Safety Leadership Conference. Every discussion of IoT, the Connected Enterprise, safety technology and robots sang that same song, all of them offering new tools and new strategies to keep …
Lockout Tagout Training Bundle Download
Click Here to download the FREE lockout tagout bundle. LockOut TagOut Training Video Uses environments familiar to employees working with both electric and hydraulic/pneumatic equipment. View Product Lockout/Tagout: Hazardous Energy Covers types of hazardous energy; energy isolating devices; definitions of “lockout” and “tagout”; requirements for locks and tags. View Product Lockout/Tagout Lightning In A …
(VIDEO) Free Training Video: Introduction to Lockout Tagout
?? Related Lockout Tagout Training DVDs: Lock Out Tag Out Training Video Uses environments familiar to employees working with both electric and hydraulic/pneumatic equipment. View Product Lockout/Tagout Lightning In A Bottle Covers: Kinds of energy lockout/tagout can control, Lockout/tagout basics, OSHA’s LOTO standard & more. View Product The New Lockout Tagout Safety Training Will give …
Failure To Utilize Lockout/Tagout Results In Temp Worker Being Crushed To Death
“A worker’s first day at work shouldn’t be his last day on earth,” said OSHA administrator David Michaels about a 21-year-old temporary worker who was crushed to death his first day on the job. (Updated Feb. 14 with statement from Bacardi.) OSHA has issued 12 violations to Bacardi Bottling Corp. in connection with the death of …