Safeguard Personnel And Pallet Rack With Protective Guarding Solutions
Walk into virtually any warehouse or distribution center and you’ll see pallet rack—rows upon rows of it. Industrial steel storage rack creates dense vertical storage, allowing an operation to maximize its overhead space to hold pallets of inventory for order ...
Discover How Ergonomics Can Improve Worker Productivity And Retention
This article previously appeared in MHI Solutions Magazine, Volume 10, Issue 4. Being able to operate equipment without being injured or too fatigued to do much of anything else for the rest of the day goes a long way in ...
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 ...
EASE Council Presents Panel Of Ergonomists To Discuss Workplace Safety ...
With improper ergonomics representing two of the top 10 non-fatal workplace injuries in the 2022 Liberty Mutual Insurance Workplace Safety Index, it’s more important than ever to implement better workplace safety measures. Together, overexertion when manually handling objects (number 1) ...
Do Your Steel Mesh Containment Panels Meet The ANSI MH31.1 ...
Attached to the uprights, backs, and sides of individual industrial steel pallet racks and vertical storage systems, steel mesh containment panels contain items stored overhead. Their presence reduces the chance of equipment or inventory falling. Also known as rack safety ...
Resolve To Create A Proactive Ergonomics Improvement Action Plan In ...
Why does your operation need a proactive ergonomics improvement action plan in 2023? If yours is one of the hundreds of U.S. businesses that’s experienced a non-fatal workplace injury in its facilities, then you know first-hand the direct costs: workers ...
Not Using Protective Guarding Around Equipment And Machinery? It’ll Cost ...
The Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) makes it abundantly clear in Regulation 29 CFR 1910.212 that machine guarding (protective guarding) must be installed to protect operators and other employees in the area from hazards associated with equipment. This includes ...
Guidelines For Safe Equipment Use Minimize Risk Of Worker Injuries
For operations looking to move away from exclusively using human power to handle individual items and containers in warehousing and fulfillment operations, there are a variety of recommendations for the selection of — and guidelines for the safe use of ...
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 ...
Two EASE Council Videos Detail Benefits Of Industry Group Membership
Working together to educate facility owners and operators about the importance of safer, healthier, and more ergonomically correct workplaces, the members of the Ergonomic Assist Systems & Equipment (EASE) Council of MHI are encouraging other manufacturers of this type of ...