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 ...
Active Protective Guarding Technologies Increasingly Available
Ensuring the safety of employees working in warehouses, distribution centers, and manufacturing operations is a top priority. To reduce safety risks, many operations use personal protective equipment (PPE) and physical barriers to separate humans from potential hazards. Despite efforts to ...
ProGMA’s Two MODEX 2024 Educational Sessions Explore The Latest Protective ...
Among the Top 10 causes of serious, disabling workplace injuries are falls to a lower level, falling items, being caught in machinery, and pedestrian/vehicle incidents. Together, these four causes alone cost employers $15.79 billion, according to the 2023 Liberty Mutual ...
ProGMA’s ProMat Educational Session Shares How To Apply Protective Guarding ...
Keeping workers safe is a top priority across manufacturing, warehousing, and distribution operations. One of the best ways to safeguard against injuries is to apply protective guarding to reduce risk throughout a facility. That’s why operations, maintenance, and safety managers ...
Learn How Protective Guarding Has Evolved To Strengthen Worker Safety
This article previously appeared in MHI Solutions Magazine, Volume 10, Issue 4. People need to feel safe to be productive, and in industrial environments a crucial component of keeping workers safe is keeping them adequately separated from certain equipment. Fixed ...
Improper Ergonomics When Handling Objects And Awkward Postures Cost Employers ...
Every week, non-fatal workplace injuries cost U.S. businesses more than $1 billion, with total injuries exceeding $58 billion annually, according to Liberty Mutual Insurance’s 2022 Workplace Safety Index. The annual report, produced by the insurer’s risk control services division, ranks ...
Protective Guarding Search Tool Updated With More Solutions Categories
Developed and continuously updated by the members of the Protective Guarding Manufacturers Association (ProGMA), the free Protective Guarding Search Tool has been expanded with additional solutions categories. As a one-stop resource for facility managers, safety managers, and end users, the ...
Can’t Find An Off-The-Shelf Guarding Solution? Here’s Why Custom Is ...
A quick search online for virtually any type of protective guarding — guardrails, bollards, safety gates, kickplates, steel mesh, safety netting, dock barriers and more — will quickly yield a number of standard, off-the-shelf products. Most of these systems and ...
Safety Training Best Practices Reduce Risk Of Worker Injuries
Nearly every warehouse and distribution center touts “safety first” as an operational mandate; yet some operations have better safety records than others. With the Bureau of Labor Statistics noting that annual warehouse fatalities doubled between 2015 and 2017, and warehouse ...
Ergonomic, Safe Workplaces Enhance Productivity Of Workforce
Warehouse operations, manufacturing facilities and distribution centers that invest in ergonomically designed technologies and training to help workers safely perform physical tasks will improve both their wellbeing and overall productivity. That’s because anywhere from a third to half of all ...