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Heavy equipment is an integral part of many industries, but safe operation of this massive machinery requires comprehensive and consistent safety training. How can managers and supervisors strengthen their training programs to ensure operators and employees have the resources they need to stay safe on the job?
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It also led to more than a quarter million dollars in fines against the company that employed them.
Free "Machine Safety Compliance 101" webinar is scheduled for Thursday, April 6, 2017
March 8, 2017
Rockford Systems, LLC., a premier provider of machine safeguarding products and services, today announced details for the next webinar in its online educational series: Machine Safety Compliance 101.
This free, interactive webinar takes an in-depth look at the major challenges facing managers today as they strive to better understand OSHA, ANSI and NFPA standards as they apply to metal working machinery, along with the steps involved in assessing and safeguarding potentially hazardous machinery to full compliance.
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Painesville, Ohio-based Dyson Corp. failed to use machine safety procedures
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