The relationship between a company and a contractor consultant needs be one of trust, transparency and all about the customer to be successful. In addition the ability of the consultant to listen should be extremely refined to hear what the company braintrust wants the new system to accomplish but also and maybe even more important… Read More The Procrastinating Consultant
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 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, the earth sucks as gravity still wins. LESSON 3 – Weight Limits. Each of you has a limit on how much weight you can… Read More Safety Lessons Learned From Wile E. Coyote 3
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
Santa received a notice of violation( 1910.212) Machine Guarding. This is #9 on OSHA’s TopTen violations for 2019. After solving the PPE issue yesterday, let’s take a look at machine guarding. As we mentioned yesterday, machinery is extraordinary and can be challenging yet quite rewarding to operate and maintain. Some professional operators have such… Read More The TopTen OSHA Violations Before Christmas. On the Second Day
Santa received a notice of violation( 1926.102) lack of PPE – Eye and Face Protection. This is #10 on OSHA’s TopTen violations for 2019. The industrial revolution provided us with many great inventions of machinery. Machinery is great because it helps to do the jobs of drilling, sanding, polishing, cutting, shaping, bending a lot easier… Read More The TopTen OSHA Violations Before Christmas. On the First Day
Sometimes the best way to improve morale in a company is with a subversive act especially if it just ever so slightly breaks a rule and has been coordinated with the entire staff. Our family-owned company had recently been bought by a large corporation. We were their new shining addition to the family and after… Read More The Hawaiian Shirt Rebellion
Dorothy was still not sure what had just happened or any clue about the dead inspector but she knew she wanted out of this nightmare and to be back home so finding this head of OSHA sounded like the best way right now. So she set out on the green brick road hoping to make… Read More A Complete Guide To Warehouse Safety -Volume 2 – PPE
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