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Material handling hazards

Material handling hazards

Address lifting, moving equipment & cranes
Mark H. Stromme
January 1, 2020

Material handling consists of the moving, handling, and storing of materials in a facility using manual force, employee-operated equipment (forklifts), and automated equipment (conveyors). The handling and storing of materials inside a facility includes activities like:


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Six must-have features to protect lone workers

Six must-have features to protect lone workers

Lifeline to safety
Tae-Yeon Won
January 1, 2020

On a Tuesday afternoon, you send a maintenance contractor out to a remote station to perform a routine check on some of your equipment. Your contractor drives out to the nearest access road, parks his truck, and walks over to the site. When he gets there, his personal gas monitor alerts him to high levels of dangerous gases...


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Checklist

New Year’s Resolutions to improve safety at your workplace

January 1, 2020
Lose weight. Quit smoking. Finally finish that home repair to-do list. A new year is perceived by many as an opportunity to make changes that will lead to positive changes in one’s health, relationships, environment, etc. The start of a new year is also a good time for safety professionals to take stock of the safety status quo at their company, and find ways to fix problems or to take the company’s safety culture to the next level.
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Top safety success stories of the year

December 31, 2019
It’s free, it’s confidential and it’s separate from enforcement so it won’t result in penalties or citations. OSHA’s On-Site Consultation Program offers no-cost and confidential occupational safety and health services to small and medium-sized businesses in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and several U.S. territories, with priority given to high-hazard worksites.
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Simmons

Puerto Rico manufacturer improves workplace safety, stays OSHA SHARP

December 27, 2019
A small mattress manufacturing operation in Puerto Rico has succeeded in updating and improving work practices, improving machine guarding, increasing employee participation in safety and health activities, and improving the safety and health management system already in place at the site with help from Puerto Rico Consultation Services, which performs local assessments and consults as part of federal OSHA’s On-Site Consultation Program.
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ANSI/ISEA 121- Dropped Object Prevention Solutions
2020 Top Standards: ANSI/ISEA

ANSI/ISEA 121- Dropped Object Prevention Solutions

December 20, 2019

ANSI/ISEA 121-2018 is a standard that consists of design, testing, performance and labeling requirements for tool tethering systems and containers used to transport and secure tools and equipment at heights.


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Resources

Visual Literacy and Serious Injury and Fatality Prevention

Join us for a complimentary webinar
December 12, 2019
The Center for Visual Expertise (COVE) will discuss the relationship between visual literacy and serious injury and fatality (SIF) prevention. Many companies today have embraced the research that has revealed that simply mitigating incident potential at the bottom of the Heinrich safety pyramid will not ensure the mitigation of SIFs.
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ORCHSE
Brought to you by ORCHSE Strategies, LLC and Muschara Error Management Consulting

Foundations of Human & Organizational Performance

2-DAY TRAINING COURSE coming in January!!
December 12, 2019
If you are new to human and organizational performance (HOP) or are looking to strengthen your knowledge of the foundational principles of HOP, this is the course for you. Human performance – your people – introduce uncertainty into work.
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wind power

Safety labels can keep solar workers safe

December 11, 2019
America’s solar energy industry has grown rapidly — more than doubling its workforce. There are now more than 242,000 U.S. solar workers. Training programs and compliance with OSHA safety standards keep workers informed and can prevent accidents.
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