The ROI of Protective Guarding: Why Proactive Safety Pays Off
At ProMat 2025, members of the Protective Guarding Manufacturers Association (ProGMA) delivered a data-driven presentation titled “The ROI of Protective Guarding.” The education session emphasized how proactive safety investments protect people, products, and places while delivering a strong return on ...
Combine Rack Repair Kits And Guarding In Damage Prone Areas
Engineered to hold thousands of pounds of stored material overhead, industrial pallet racks allow an operation to maximize its storage capacity. However, these structures are vulnerable to impacts from forklifts and the loads they carry. In particular, the columns — ...
Conveyor Guarding Safeguards Personnel And Equipment In Warehouses, Airports
Conveyor systems are the backbone of logistics operations in airports and industrial operations, including warehouses and manufacturing facilities. These transportation systems move baggage, packages, and materials throughout a facility across a range of elevations. However, their high speed, continuous movement ...
Machine Guarding: How To Determine Distance to Hazard
Machine guarding is essential for workplace safety as it protects employees from potential hazards such as moving parts, sharp edges, and points of operation. Correctly determining the placement distance of machine guarding away from the hazard is critical to their ...
Rack Guarding Panels Protect Workers, Inventory, And Facility Structures
As business needs change, factories and warehouses are reconfiguring their industrial pallet rack more often. By moving these storage structures, operations can support different processes, work cells, equipment, and machinery. Frequently these structures are single deep selective rack. Without steel ...
ProGMA To Offer ROI Insights For Protective Guarding Solutions At ...
Too often manufacturing and warehousing facility owners view an investment in protective guarding solutions as a cost center. In reality, however, implementing the right technologies can deliver significant return on investment (ROI) through improved safety and reduced risks. To help ...
Wire Mesh Panels: An Optimal Solution For Self-Serve Industrial Lockers
The buy-online-pickup-in-store (BOPIS) trend has expanded beyond traditional brick-and-mortar retail outlets and into distribution and industrial operations. Business-to-business customers are purchasing parts, components, consumables, and other industrial materials online and picking up their orders directly from the warehouse. To facilitate ...
Protective Guarding Trends Include Guardrails, Topple Protection
In a recent article in MHI Solutions, “Topple Protection and New Standards Among the Key Developments for Protective Guarding Field,” members of the Protective Guarding Manufacturers Association (ProGMA) discussed an increased commitment to safety in warehousing and distribution centers. The ...
Protective Guarding For Storage Systems Keeps Employees And Equipment Safe
Annually, the Liberty Mutual Workplace Safety Index publishes the Top 10 causes of serious, disabling workplace injuries. Three—falls to a lower level, falling items, and entrapment in equipment—were the focus of a MODEX 2024 educational session presented by the Protective ...
Protective Netting Safeguards People And Property In Multiple Industrial Applications
In the dynamic environments of today’s warehouses, distribution centers, and manufacturing facilities, safety is paramount. Operations are increasingly storing inventory at higher heights and in different areas. That can, however, pose potential risks to personnel and property. Enter protective netting ...