New OSHA Recordkeeping Bulletin-Temporary Workers
New OSHA guidance out. In most cases, the host employer is the one responsible for recording the injuries and illnesses of temporary workers.
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Blog | Career | Front Office
Need For Qualified Workers- A Shop Owner's View
The new technologies and energy supplies that are ushering in a new industrial revolution provide challenges for shops to find hire retain and retrain talent.
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Manufacturing Defined- Making Things!
We were pleased to be quoted in the weekend edition of the Wall Street Journal in an article by Tim Aeppel titled Feds Try Redefining Manufacturing. Our initial post on Factoryless Goods Producers was cited in the article. The issue is that federal agencies are trying to redefine “Manufacturing” to recognize “Factoryless Goods Producers” as…
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Blog | Career | Front Office
February Jobs Report- Beating Expectations is Not Enough
“The economy needs to add about 350,000 jobs each month to push unemployment down to an acceptable level.”- Beating the consensus of 149,000 new jobs with 175,000 new jobs isn’t good news it is inadequate performance.
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Communication Tower Worker Deaths- Why Doesn't OSHA Enforce Its Rules?
We are puzzled as to why OSHA fails to enforce its existing rules on fixed ladders to protect the safety of Communication Tower Workers and Wind Generator Workers. Why aren’t the fixed ladders on Communications Towers and Wind Generators held to the same fixed ladder safety requirements as those in general industry? There are 21 families who would ask why their loved one wasn’t entitled to the same fixed ladder protections as everyone else in general industry seems to be.
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Conversion of Hardness and Tensile Strength in Steels
Use of conversion charts and factors to convert hardness values in steels is widely done and typically based on ASTM methodology. In non-austenitic steels and alloys, ASTM Method E140 Standard Hardness Conversion Tables for Metals is the authoritative standard. Conversion of values is only an approximate process, due to the different combination of material properties…
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Manufacturing Improving- February PMI Rises to 53.2 From January's 51.3
Manufacturing Sector continues to grow and strengthen in February according to ISM PMI index, confirming PMPA’s own January Business Trends Outlook.
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January 2014 – Great For Precision Machining Businesses
The precision machining industry is generating strong sales and positive prospects going into calendar year 2014. PMPA’s January 2014 Business Trends Report shows that 58% of our shops were scheduling overtime, and 36% of our shops were scheduling 45 hours or more in January.
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Teamwork Leads to AS9100 Certification
“With aerospace function and safety criticality, we absolutely need to know the status and location of every piece that could be considered a part. We have definitely upped our performance in the accuracy, flow and knowledge of status of “what’s in the bin.””- Tammy Wilson. Permac Industries recently announced that they were just awarded their…
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Who Trained You?
Who am I training and am I helping people as much as my mentors helped me? Education, mentorship and experience will take mediocre and make them good; will make the good great; and make the great world class!