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ProGMA To Offer ROI Insights For Protective Guarding Solutions At ...

Too often manufacturing and warehousing facility owners view an investment in protective guarding solutions as a cost center. In reality, however, implementing the right technologies can deliver significant return on investment (ROI) through improved safety and reduced risks. To help ...
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Protective Guarding Trends Include Guardrails, Topple Protection

In a recent article in MHI Solutions, “Topple Protection and New Standards Among the Key Developments for Protective Guarding Field,” members of the Protective Guarding Manufacturers Association (ProGMA) discussed an increased commitment to safety in warehousing and distribution centers. The ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Protective Guarding Safeguards Personnel On An Industrial Work Platform, Part ...

Installing an industrial work platform, mezzanine, pick module, or rack supported platform creates one or more additional levels that increase the usable square footage of an operation. They also, however, can increase the risk of an employee sustaining an injury ...
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Protective Guarding Safeguards Personnel On An Industrial Work Platform, Part ...

By adding an industrial work platform, a company can increase its usable square footage without a building expansion. Putting work overhead, however, increases the risk of associates who work on these elevated areas for injury from falls. That makes protective ...
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Protective Guarding Helps Warehouses Be OSHA Compliant And Eliminate Hazards

Last October, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) began unscheduled inspections warehouses and distribution centers as part of its new National Emphasis Program. The agency’s goal is to reduce and eliminate hazards in these operations, which employ more than ...
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Improve Dock Safety With Protective Guarding, Part 2: Products And ...

Nearly 25% of all industrial accidents take place in shipping and receiving docks. As explored in the previous post the dangers to workers and truck drivers include potential forklift collisions and falls from open dock doors. However, forklift impacts can also ...
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Improve Dock Safety With Protective Guarding, Part 1: People

Inbound and outbound loading docks are among the busiest areas within a facility. They’re also among the most dangerous. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, between 2015 and 2020, nearly 33,000 employees missed an average of two weeks of ...
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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 ...