Downtime! A word that can send chills down the most seasoned production manager’s spine especially when it’s unplanned. These little headaches often arrive in the form of product packaging jams, a broken belt roller, a burned out motor or a blown fuse but are quick fixes with production back up and running usually at most… Read More Manufacturing Downtime Can Be Good Timing
As it is workplace safety is not the most glamorous topic around the world and when it comes to personal safety in general it’s not something most people talk about at all unless a major incident has been recently covered on television or the internet. It doesn’t help when safety managers and other professionals are… Read More Companies Behaving Badly-Rules? We Don’t Need No Stinkin Rules
Today’s lesson learned at the Wile E. Coyote School of Safety where they constantly defy the laws of physics, perverse the rules of nature, and live in animated immortality. But here fire burns. What to do if a fire breaks out? You have 3 choices if this happens. A – You can immediately call 911,… Read More Safety Lessons Learned From Wile E. Coyote 5
Today’s lesson learned from the Wile E. Coyote School of Safety where they constantly defy the laws of physics, perverse the rules of nature, and live in animated immortality. But here gravity always rules. LESSON 4 Preventing Falls: Falls don’t just occur off the top of a building but can happen in facilities where production occurs within… Read More Safety Lessons Learned From Wile E. Coyote 4
Today’s lesson learned from the Wile E. Coyote School of Safety where they constantly defy the laws of physics, perverse the rules of nature, and live in animated immortality. But in our world reality always wins. Lesson two – Daily inspections and checklist. Yea, yea. They’re a pain, every day the same thing, what a… Read More Safety Lessons Learned From Wile E. Coyote 2
Today’s thoughts on lessons learned from the Wile E. Coyote school of safety where they constantly defy the laws of physics, perverse the rules of nature and live in animated immortality. But in our world gravity always wins. LESSON 1 – Never stand directly under a suspended load of materials or a bin with a… Read More Safety Lessons Learned From Wile E. Coyote
Yes! Because of your many fabulous comments and requests, which was so greatly appreciated- This is the return of Companies Behaving Badly which will now be published the third Thursday of each month. This means I will have to add something new and make adjustments my routine so I can dedicate time to writing this… Read More Companies Behaving Badly-The Return
In a recent Twitter chat on workplace safety for #USAMfgHour, one of the questions we posed to the group was, “When was the last time you had an emergency evacuation or fire drill?” I was not prepared at all for the responses and was quite shocked as sadly they ranged from not at all to… Read More You Know The Drill
As your company grows in sales and expands to accommodate more SKUs, greater inventory, new machinery, and additional employees at one time or another, your business is going to need help from an outside contractor. They may be in the form of an engineering consultant, general contractor, painter, or other types of specialists needed for… Read More It’s 9 a.m. Do You Know Where Your Contractors Are?
It’s Christmas Eve at the Northpole and everybody is busy and celebrating! Santa and the elves did an outstanding job of fixing all the violations which included hours of training and practice and then completing the seemingly impossible task of getting all the toys and gifts that boys and girls around the world had asked… Read More The TopTen OSHA Violations Before Christmas. On the Eve Day
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