Posts by: CSS Editorial Staff
LabelTac® Pro X Giveaway Winner Selected
We would like to give a huge thank you to everyone who registered for our summer LabelTac® giveaway and helped to make it such a success! Congratulations to Greg W. from Ohio, the lucky recipient of a new LabelTac® Pro X. With the printer, Greg will be also be getting the intuitive LabelSuite™ software, free…
CSS Editorial Staff | October 9, 2019 | Company Updates
Pipe Marking with LabelSuite™
Every LabelTac® printer comes with the easiest labeling software on the market. Featuring an expansive library of ready-to-print templates and symbols, LabelSuite™ makes creating custom signs and labels a breeze. Included in this software is the Pipe Marking Assistant to guide you step-by-step through the design process of creating compliant pipe labels. Pipe marking is…
CSS Editorial Staff | October 7, 2019 | Industry News
Announcing the 2019 Fall Scholarship Winner
After months of sorting applications and reading through essays, it’s time to announce the winner of the Creative Safety Supply scholarship competition! Year after year we receive hundreds of submissions and this year it has been our pleasure to read about the experiences and goals of scholars all across the country, from all different backgrounds.…
CSS Editorial Staff | October 3, 2019 | Company Updates | Scholarship, Scholarship Winner
Find Creative Safety Supply at PACK EXPO 2019
Come find our booth at PACK EXPO! Creative Safety Supply will be in Las Vegas, Nevada next week to attend thelargest packaging event of the year. Stop by our booth in the Upper South Hall to explore efficiency and packing solutions and see how creating custom, professional labels with the LabelTac® series of industrial printers…
CSS Editorial Staff | September 19, 2019 | Company Updates
How is Gemba Lean?
Gemba walks are a Lean management tool that fits in with many other Lean manufacturing concepts. The focus of a Lean manufacturing system in general is on identifying waste in work processes and eliminating it. That way only things that add value for the customer are performed or included. While a gemba walk can focus on…
CSS Editorial Staff | June 4, 2019 | Gemba, Lean | 5S, Facility Efficiency, Facility Marking, Gemba, Kaizen, Lean, Lean Manufacturing
2019 Spring Scholarship Award Winner Selected
For the past few years, we’ve had the pleasure of holding our Creative Safety Supply scholarship competition. During this time, it’s been an honor to read about the experiences of a large, diverse swath of American students. For the Spring 2019 contest, the hundreds of submissions revealed a generation of scholars who are working hard…
CSS Editorial Staff | March 18, 2019 | Company Updates | Scholarship, Scholarship Winner
The IEEE 1584 2018 Update: What’s Changed and Why It Matters
In 2002, the unveiling of the IEEE 1584 guide was unprecedented. For the first time, an internationally recognized standard existed to calculated arcing short circuit currents, incident energy, and arc flash boundary. The standard was revolutionary, and was thanks to the hard work and tireless research done by electric engineers driven to reduce arc flash…
CSS Editorial Staff | December 7, 2018 | Safety Solutions | Electrical Safety
Introducing the Winner of the 2018 Fall Scholarship
When we started our Creative Safety Supply scholarship competition, we had no idea of the impact we’d be making on so many students, nor the impact their stories would have on us. We’ve helped a working mom of a special needs child return to school to become an art teacher. We’ve given to a med…
CSS Editorial Staff | November 13, 2018 | Company Updates | Scholarship, Scholarship Winner
Join Creative Safety Supply at FABTECH 2018
Come find our booth at the FABTECH expo! Creative Safety Supply will be attending this year’s metal forming, fabricating, welding, and finishing expo in Atlanta, Georgia next week. Stop by our booth in the Tube & Pipe Pavilion to learn about pipe marking and how you can create professional pipe labels right in your…
CSS Editorial Staff | October 30, 2018 | Safety Solutions
Celebrating National Safety Month: Week 3
Slips, trips, and falls can result in serious injury, or even death. They are, however, 100 percent preventable. OSHA has cited fall protection in the construction industry as the number one violation of 2017 and fall protection training takes the ninth spot on the list. As we enter week three of National Safety Month, we…
CSS Editorial Staff | June 20, 2018 | Safety Solutions
How to Start Lean and “What’s Wrong With the Lean Start-up Process”
I wanted to talk about this article because of the acronym L.A.M.E and how it was used or made up. This article really shows how to start Lean and how it can be used and used again not that it is bad but I want to bring what I saw in the article as importannt.…
CSS Editorial Staff | June 19, 2018 | Safety Solutions
Floor Paint or Floor Tape?
I know that floor paint has been used for decades to mark the floors of industrial workplaces, however, just because something has been around or done for a long time does not mean it is the best practice or choice today. There are many cons to using floor marking paint that have just been accepted…
CSS Editorial Staff | June 19, 2018 | Floor Marking | Floor Marking, Floor Paint, Floor Tape
Kaizen for the Workplace and Personal Spaces
The strategy of Kaizen can be used in a workplace or even in the home. This is a great post for the beginner or the advanced Lean user. I would recommend checking out the article and exploring how Lean can help your company. “A Japanese management strategy called Kaizen roughly translates to “continuous slow improvement.” In the…
CSS Editorial Staff | June 19, 2018 | Kaizen
Safety and Lean Resources
We here at Creative Safety Supply pride ourselves in offering free safety and lean resources through blogs, posts, podcasts, and infographics; in our efforts to educate and inform, below are workplace safety and Lean manufacturing websites we recommend. P4 Lean Strategy Bill Weider is an expert in Lean and founder of P4 Lean Strategy. His…
CSS Editorial Staff | April 27, 2018 | Company Updates
Introducing the Winner of the 2018 Winter Scholarship
One of the joys of hosting a scholarship competition is reading about the vast and varied individuals who apply. We received hundreds of applications from widely diverse backgrounds, interests, and career goals. We read about people’s childhoods in Lebanon, in Brooklyn, in rural Michigan, and how these upbringings inspired them to pursue engineering, rocket science,…
CSS Editorial Staff | February 12, 2018 | Company Updates | Scholarship, Scholarship Winner