Workplace Fatality Infographic
A compendium of safety facts and fatality data for your training and understanding.
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Industrial Production Index July 2012 Shows Manufacturing in Positive Light
Manufacturing continues to be a strength of the U.S. Economy. Markets served by precision machining companies like electronic parts, motor vehicle parts, aerosapce and miscellaneous transportation equipment, and miscellaaneous manufacturing all were up 1% in July. Manufacturing is up 5% from July 2011 to july 2012.
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Overkill On PPE Can Mean Diminished Returns
The proper PPE is not magic. It is the right equipment for the identified hazards, at the occupational circumstance. The guy in the crane high above doesn’t need his visibility improved to protect him from vehicular traffic. The roofer doesn’t need a neon green t-shirt, he needs fall protection.
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Training- What We Want vs. What We Need
We ought to provide immediately relevant training the best way we know how, today. insisting on old school manual training just might be why we are currently short about a million workers in advanced manufacturing. Is insisting on teaching them exactly the way that we taught Fred Flintstone back in the day the best way to teach people today?
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Update- OSHA Memorandum on Safety Incentive Disincentive Policies
Employers may continue to discipline employees who fail to report injuries appropriately. Positive incentives for safety performance remain targeted by OSHA as potentially discriminatory and dissuasive of reporting injuries. Director Michaels “whole-heartedly agrees” with the use of incentives to encourage positive behaviors and that OSHA “recognizes the employers’ legitimate interest in establishing procedures for receiving and responding to reports of injuries and nothing in the memo is intended to undermine that interest.”
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What Is Company’s Most Important Job?
The most important job in a company is the selection of employees, suppliers, and customers.
A failure at any of these spells trouble in operations, production, and sales.
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How to Clean Up Mercury Spill From Fluorescent Light-OSHA
A new OSHA Quick Card provides guidance to minimize employee exposure to mercury when cleaning up a broken fluoresecent light. Safe Cleanup of Broken Fluorescent Bulbs
•Notify workers and tell them to stay away from the area.
•Open any windows and doors to air out the room.
•Do not use a broom or vacuum cleaner unless the vacuum cleaner is specifically designed to collect mercury.
•Wear appropriate disposable chemical-resistant gloves.
•Use a commercial mercury spill kit if available, or scoop up pieces of glass and powder with stiff paper or cardboard to avoid contact with the broken glass.
•Use sticky tape to pick up any remaining pieces of glass.
•Wipe down hard floors with a damp paper towel.
•Place all pieces of glass and cleanup materials in a sealable plastic bag or a glass jar with a lid.
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June 2012: Manufacturing Stalled Globally?
The indicators seem to indicate manufacturing going into a global stall…
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What is a Factoryless Goods Producer?
The Factoryless Goods Producer designation has the potential to seriously inflate US manufacturing statistics and confuse all parties, as it counts foreign outsourced production as, well, Manufactured goods from a Factoryless Goods Producer (FGP)
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What is Manufacturing?
Manufacturers actually make things and often export their products. Factoryless goods producers don’t make anything themselves.
In some cases however outsourcers EXPORT OUR JOBS.