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Training requirements for General Industry as per OSHA can be found in this free download or inexpensive to purchase ebook.
It turns out that Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose explain more about why we do things than mere financial incentives.
Minor servicing or maintenance that is routine, repetitive and integral to the use of the equipment for production may be covered by alternate protection. As the interpretations on the OSHA website indicate, such effective protection can include stopping the machine using a control switch (not an energy isolating switch, just a control switch), if the switch is designed in accordance with good engineering practice, controls all the hazardous energy and is placed in the off position, and is under the exclusive control of the employee performing the task.
OSHA extends it’s enforcement targeting to small manufacturers, the creators of jobs. Then they wonder why manufacturers aren’t hiring. Criteria for this latest batch of site Specific targeted Inspections are given in this post.
Three takeaways:
1.Current outlook- manufacturers optimism has declined from 86.4% of respondents either very or somewhat positive in their
business outlook in the June survey, only 65.4% said the same in the third quarter — a drop of over 20 percentage points.
2.Economy is top concern -nearly 65% of manufacturers surveyed said that a weaker domestic economy was hurting their sales.
3.Regulatory issues are real drag on growth- almost 61% said that an unfavorable business climate was one of the biggest
challenges right now, and nearly 80% felt that government involvement was impeding their ability to grow their operations.
Aluminum is quickly gaining market share in hoods, trunks, doors and bumpers. Body, bumper and closure content grew by 58 percent from 2009 to 2012, with 30 percent of all hoods on 2012 vehicles being aluminum. This accounts for saving a total of 100 million pounds of vehicle weight across the entire fleet. Twenty percent of all bumpers in 2012 will be aluminum. Aluminum is the Key to automotive downweighting.
Precision Machining is a subset of Fabricated Metals which was one of the sectors reporting continued strength in August. Economic activity in the manufacturing sector expanded in August for the 25th consecutive month, and the overall economy grew for the 27th consecutive month, say the nation’s supply executives in the latest Manufacturing ISM Report On…
The hybrid structure developed by this flash bainite processing technique is a -dare we say- “composite microstructure” which gives the material bulk mechanical properties of improved strength and increased ductility.
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