New ProGMA Video Explains the Association Advancing Protective Guarding Safety
Protective guarding is a foundational element of warehouse safety. Its purpose? To protect people, equipment, and inventory in increasingly complex material handling environments. A new video from the Protective Guarding Manufacturers Association (ProGMA) introduces the association and its mission. It ...
Don’t Make These Three Errors When Specifying And Installing Safety ...
Safety netting provides an essential layer of protection in today’s fast-paced warehousing and distribution environments. These protective guarding solutions—made of woven synthetic fibers—stop falling items from reaching the floor below. However, operations that neglect key application and installation details can ...
Mezzanine Fall Protection: OSHA Requirements And Engineered Safety Gates
As more facilities add mezzanines, elevated pick modules, or industrial work platforms to maximize available workspace, it’s critical to address fall hazards. To ensure compliance with Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulations about elevated work areas, facility owners should ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...