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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.

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

Carrie Halle
June 7, 2020
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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.
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Steel curtains block flying debris from hydraulic presses

Steel curtains block flying debris from hydraulic presses

Striking out
Carrie Halle
May 5, 2020
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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
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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.


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Machine risk assessments vs. safeguarding assessments

Machine risk assessments vs. safeguarding assessments

Securing your workplace
Carrie Halle
January 1, 2020
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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. 


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Welding robots are on the rise

What’s your strategy? Evaluate risks and select the right safeguarding systems
Carrie Halle
April 8, 2019
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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
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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.
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Machine safeguarding technology, easing pinch point pain

Machine Safeguarding Technology: Keeping operators safe

Carrie Halle
May 22, 2018
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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.
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Machine safeguarding for Robotics: Avoid these 7 deadly risks

Carrie Halle
July 1, 2017
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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.


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