Go to www.grainger.com and on the homepage you’ll find several references to industrial safety. On the day in early April when we went to the site, Workplace Eye Wellness Month was featured, with a “Learn more” click for “tips and tools for injury prevention and response.” Beneath the heading, “Online resources to help you create a safe, sustainable and compliant workplace” a button icon for “safety” promises “All the products and resources that help you keep your facility safe and in compliance.” Click the “Shop Safety” link and you enter Grainger’s online world of safety.
Grainger’s online safety content includes product categories for confined spaces, ergonomics, personal protective equipment, slips, trips and falls, heat stress, machine guarding, medical and first aid, health hazards, cold stress, electrical safety, facility safety, and OSHA’s Top Ten Most Cited Violations, starting with respiratory protection and lockout-tagout. Free webinars can be viewed on both topics, and “quick tip” links describe respirator fit testing requirements, respirator selection requirements of substance-specific standards, and a summary of OSHA’s lockout-tagout standard that concludes with commonly asked questions.