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Learn how to comply with combustible dust standards

June 7, 2020

The need and requirements to conduct a Dust Hazard Analysis (DHA) has increased over the last several years, partially due to the insurance carriers, permitting agencies, and corporate offices requiring facilities and companies to follow governing standards.

Global manufacturing, safety and COVID-19

How one packaging company handled the global crisis

May 21, 2020

In January, global packaging company Amcor was hearing reports of a coronavirus spreading in China, where it has six manufacturing sites. In February, Amcor activated its Global Crisis Response team. Amcor’s VP EHS, Jim Keith, shares what the packaging leader has learned so far from managing through a global pandemic.

IDEC family of HR5S category 2 safety relay modules

Training Strategies

Focus on safety standards when creating equipment

Elements of design

Luiz Shida

May 13, 2020

Machinery and OEM designers know that building safety into their equipment is a fundamental requirement. To ensure a consistent approach, the ISO 13849 standard provides guidance for machinery control systems that are applied to provide safety functions for machinery.

Steel curtains block flying debris from hydraulic presses

Striking out

Carrie Halle

May 5, 2020

The potential for catastrophic injury when operating a hydraulic press is great. Its operation requires a worker to feed, position and remove stock in the area under the powerful ram or near the bending point, exposing him or herself directly to danger.

Sky Hook provides immediate lifting solution for social distancing requirements

April 3, 2020

Maintaining efficiency with a limited or restricted workforce has never been more paramount. With the widespread impact of COVID-19, many companies have temporarily closed their doors or made changes for personal safety, including employees working from home to help reduce the spread of the novel coronavirus.

Rockford Systems releases COVID-19 response statement

March 20, 2020

As concerns about the spread of COVID-19 increase, Rockford Systems, LLC wanted to make its customers aware of support options to help keep health and safety at the forefront of their organizations.

Steel plate falls from crane, injuring worker

“Aluminum Shapes continues to disregard their legal responsibility to comply with safety and health standards"

January 31, 2020

OSHA has cited Aluminum Shapes LLC for workplace safety and health hazards after a crane operator was injured in August 2019 at the aluminum manufacturer’s Delair, New Jersey, foundry. The company faces $169,524 in penalties for these violations.

Wisc. manufacturing workers exposed to lead, copper dust

January 22, 2020

OSHA has cited Milwaukee Valve Company Inc. – based in Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin – for exposing employees to lead and copper dust at rates higher than the permissible exposure levels. The agency has proposed $171,628 in penalties to the industrial valve manufacturing company.

Family sues after worker dies on assembly line

December 16, 2019

The family of a Kentucky man killed in a workplace incident has filed a lawsuit against his employer, GE Appliances, and other parties. Steve Herring, who’d worked for the company for more than two decades, died in February after being pinned by machinery while working on a refrigerator-building assembly line. News sources are reporting that the state OSHA’s investigation into the fatality found that it could have been caused by an inadvertent activation of an improperly positioned gate interlock control.

Report finds worker injuries are “routine” at Tesla’s Nevada plant

November 14, 2019

A new report from USA Today on Tesla’s “gargantuan” four-year-old battery factory in Nevada finds that worker injuries at the Gigafactory occur “on a routine basis: at least three a month.” OSHA inspectors were on-site more than 90 times in the facility’s first three years of operation.