Carrie Halle

Carrie Halle is VP of Marketing and Business Development, Rockford Systems, LLC . Rockford Systems (https://www.rockfordsystems.com) provides information on how machine safeguarding products can be applied.

Prevent the spread of COVID-19 with cough and sneeze shields

Carrie Halle

June 7, 2020

A cough can travel as fast as 50 mph and expel almost 3,000 droplets in just one go. Sneezes are even more forceful —they can travel up to 100 mph and create upwards of 100,000 droplets.

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.

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Get your hands on the right safety gloves

Safety gloves, correctly sized and engineered with the correct materials, defend workers from virtually any type of hazard

Carrie Halle

April 1, 2020

According to the U.S. Department of Labor, injuries to hands accounted for nearly 25 percent of all lost-time industrial injuries - a total of 110,000 annually. Seventy percent of those injuries resulted when an employee was not wearing safety gloves, while the other 30 percent of hand injuries occurred while an employee was wearing the wrong kind of gloves.

Machine risk assessments vs. safeguarding assessments

Securing your workplace

Carrie Halle

January 1, 2020

When it comes to accidents, manufacturing ranks second highest of all industries. That comes despite OSHA regulations and American National Standards Institute (ANSI) standards. A key culprit is unguarded hazardous machinery.

Welding robots are on the rise

What’s your strategy? Evaluate risks and select the right safeguarding systems

Carrie Halle

April 8, 2019

Robotic welding provides manufacturers with several competitive advantages. Most importantly, it makes them more productive while generating more consistent, higher quality welds and reducing waste. Robots also empower manufacturers to address the current shortage of skilled welders to recruit.

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Understanding direct and indirect costs of machinery accidents

Carrie Halle

March 11, 2019

Insurance studies indicate machine safeguarding provides an excellent opportunity for businesses to reduce bottom-line operating costs by eliminating both the direct and indirect costs of employee accidents.

Machine safeguarding technology, easing pinch point pain

Machine Safeguarding Technology: Keeping operators safe

Carrie Halle

May 22, 2018

Pinching your finger in a door can be painful but certainly not life threatening. Pinch-point injuries involving industrial machinery are another story, one that rarely has a happy ending.

Machine safeguarding for Robotics: Avoid these 7 deadly risks

Carrie Halle

July 1, 2017

Unlike conventional machinery, robots lack the intelligence of a human operator. In the event of a programming error or hardware malfunction robots have the potential to unexpectedly move large distances at a high rate of speed, posing a serious danger to operators or maintenance personnel.