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 ...
Prevent Trailer Damage To Loading Docks With Dock Bumpers
With the shortage of truck drivers hitting a historic high in the past 12 months, chances are that any driver making a delivery or arriving to pick up a shipment at a facility’s dock is going to be stressed, in ...
Reduce Ergonomic Injury Risk With These Guidelines For Safer Manual ...
Even with investment in automated material handling solutions forecast to grow from a current market size of $28.8 billion to $45.1 billion in the next five years, manual handling tasks in warehouses, distribution centers, and manufacturing facilities will never disappear. ...