We offer our expertise in several areas of employee Health and Safety to enhance your Safety Culture. These are: Dynamic-Based Safety Training (Practiced): 1. OSHA and Safety Compliance Training in all areas of General Industry and Manufacturing 2. Practical Machine Guarding & Abatement 3. Operative Control of Hazardous Energy (Lockout) 4. Applied Ergonomics 5. Realistic…
As a former Industrial Health and Safety Manager, there is nothing I hated to hear more from an excited employee approaching me, yelling something like this, “Fitz, why do you make me Lockout, and you allow that contractor over there not to do the same?” Usually, I did not even know we had contractors in…
Today organizations are faced with many challenges. Many of these things can be overwhelming in and of themselves, but we are seldom faced with one at a time, they come at us in clusters. Employee wellbeing is but one of these things. In our experience few other things are more of a detriment to conducive…
When I began my management career many years ago, I remember hearing that my organization had a safety team. At the time, I remember thinking that having such a team just seemed logical and important, especially if employee safety was important, as I was told at the time it was. Over the many succeeding years…
As a Safety Manager I figured out some time ago that what you guard on a machine is quite easy. As I looked at the problem of guarding a machine safety, I suddenly realized some people make Machine Guarding way to hard! Primarily, most machine guarding can be covered by concentrating on three types of…
About 12 years ago I was walking around the plant on my daily rounds as an HR/Safety Manager. I have always loved talking to the employees on my tours. It is surprising the amount of stuff you pick up by just listening. I learned many years ago that, “Where there is smoke, there is fire!”…
I recently was going over injury statistics for the last several years with a customer. I noted an excessive number of accidents caused by employees blowing steel chips into their eyes, using compressed air. I made an interim recommendation that they implement the use of face shields while blowing air. The customer immediately responded, “We…