Workplace safety is a multifaceted issue for many manufacturers and industrial operators. It includes both machine and process safety and is vital to protecting workers, avoiding production interruptions and achieving operational excellence. While it’s a new year, the challenges in manufacturing remain the same, including fewer available workers, globalization, innovation, safety and security concerns and how best to use information.
Here is a list of ten tips to help you meet these challenges and see improvements in safety and productivity.
1. Improve Your Safety Maturity
Safety maturity is a combination of culture (behavior), compliance (policies and procedures) and use of capital (technologies). Repeated studies show the top 20 percent of manufacturers achieve 5-7 percent higher OEE, 2-4 percent less unscheduled downtime, and less than half the injury rate of average performers – and the top performers are extending their lead.