Safety managers on docks have specific priorities compared to other working environments. Loading and unloading require heavy machinery and technical prowess.
The National Fire Protection Agency (NFPA) recently updated the requirements of the 70E Standard for Electrical Safety in the Workplace. The latest changes bring several important updates from the previous version.
The revised standard is helping to elevate World Standards Week, an event held Nov. 12-14 by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) to promote best practices in workplace safety.
Employees were using a forklift to take stone slabs off a storage rack when the slab became unsecured and struck the worker. OSHA investigators find it could have been prevented.
