Sort Through Protective Guarding Solutions with ProGMA’s Help
A recent article in MHI Solutions magazine explored how protective guarding creates and maintains safe environments in a variety of industrial settings. These essential tools help protect not only workers, but also equipment, products, and facilities. Because protective guarding is ...
Applying Safety Netting? Avoid These Common Mistakes
Safety netting plays a critical role in keeping people, products, and operations safe within dynamic warehouse environments. Made of woven synthetic fibers, these protective guarding solutions create a barrier that prevents products from falling to the floor below. However, even ...
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 — ...
Guardrail Testing Standard Methodology Explained In New ProGMA Video
To protect against injuries and damage caused by powered industrial vehicle impacts, operations can install guardrails and barrier posts. These protective guarding devices safeguard personnel, equipment, products, and facility structures, significantly reducing costs and downtime associated with accidents. However, different ...
ProGMA ANSI Standards Enhance Protective Guarding Safety
The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) oversees the development and implementation of voluntary consensus standards in the United States. The organization grants industry associations, such as MHI, status as an ANSI-Accredited Standards Developer (ASD), thereby authorizing it to create standards. ...
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 ...
EASE Council Panel Explains Importance Of Industrial Ergonomics At ProMat ...
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), 33% of all worker injuries are due to poor ergonomics. However, these ergonomic injuries—also known as musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs)—are preventable. To help operations better understand how to safeguard workers, the Ergonomic Assist ...