Posts by: CSS Editorial Staff
Anti-Slip Tapes
Anti Slip Tape can help make areas safer in homes, businesses, workshops, and in public places. Proper safety precautions and warning signs can help to prevent many accidents, and there is no reason not to invest in them considering they are so low cost. Creative Safety Supply is the leading online supplier of a huge collection of…
CSS Editorial Staff | February 22, 2015 | Floor Marking | Anti-Slip Tape, Facility Efficiency, Floor Marking, OSHA, Safety, Workplace Safety
How Penny Pinching on Safety Could Pinch You Back
In a tough economy, businesses are forced to clamp down and rake through their budgets for items that can be cut without a major loss in production. Ideally, these are luxuries and extras that you and your employees can live without for a period of time (if not permanently). However, some of the first things…
CSS Editorial Staff | February 22, 2015 | Safety Solutions
5S – For Life & For Business
Have you ever heard of the 5 S’s? The five S’s stand for steps that you can use to organize various elements of your life. Originating from lean manufacturing principles, and used by businesses and assembly lines, this process can be applied to nearly any organizational task. For the purposes of this article, we’re going to look…
CSS Editorial Staff | February 6, 2015 | 5S, Value Stream | 5S, Lean Manufacturing, Organized Workplace
Lean is Green
Lean manufacturing principles have solidified themselves as a successful method of improvement in organizations across the globe. Increasing productivity through waste elimination methods continues to be the golden ticket for many industries, but a separate by-product of Lean is in need of some attention –Green. Organizations everywhere are starting to notice their Lean principles produce…
CSS Editorial Staff | December 24, 2014 | Lean | 3P, 5S, Kaizen, Kanban, Lean
How to find Cost Effective ways to Create Labels for Marine Environments
Any time you are operating in a facility near the water, you’re going to have to make some changes to the way things are done. Water can have dramatic impacts on how everything works, from the machines to the safety signs, and everything in between. If you’re looking for ways to create all sorts of…
CSS Editorial Staff | June 23, 2014 | Visual Safety | Labeling, Marine Pipe Marking, Marine Safety, Pipe Marking
Quality Culture Is Key to Success
Good business leaders are consistently evaluating the quality of their business and the goods or services they offer. Many times this involves looking at various statistics, customer reviews, and total sales figures. However, more and more top executive leaders are realizing that the quality of their company has to do with more than just numbers…
CSS Editorial Staff | May 14, 2014 | Training, Value Stream | Value Stream, Value Stream Mapping
Improved Safety Leads to Workplace Changes
Workplace safety is an important task, which everyone in a facility will play a role. The safety manager (or other similar position) will do most of the planning, training and other tasks, but the bottom line is, if everyone doesn’t play their part, no amount of safety planning will be helpful. Whenever discussing workplace safety, it is…
CSS Editorial Staff | February 27, 2014 | Safety Solutions
Car Technology Learning from Workplace Safety Standards
Every year when new vehicles are released from the car companies, it seems that they always have a new lineup of great safety technologies. One of the biggest trends in auto safety technology is that they are focusing more on accident prevention. A decade or more ago, in contrast, most of the safety features were…
CSS Editorial Staff | February 27, 2014 | Safety Solutions | Workplace Safety
Fire Safety in Your Facility
Virtually every facility has at least the basic fire safety systems in place. In most cases, they are required by law in order to operate. This will typically consist of a sprinkler system, fire and smoke detecting devices and fire extinguishers placed throughout the facility. While these are all extremely important, they don’t go far…
CSS Editorial Staff | February 24, 2014 | Safety Solutions | Fire Safety, Safety, Workplace Safety
Protecting Your Hands In The Workplace
When we think of personal protection equipment, most people immediately think of goggles, glasses, earmuffs, hard hats, etc. While gloves have been around for a long time and assist us in many daily tasks, we tend to not put enough emphasis on actually protecting hands and fingers in the workplace. The Right Glove for the…
CSS Editorial Staff | November 15, 2013 | Safety Products | Hand Safety, PPE
Heijunka – Increasing Efficiency
Lean manufacturing has been adopted by countless production operations around the world over the last several decades, and for good reason. Principles that increase the efficiency of your workplace and create a smoother flow in production can only be beneficial for your workplace. I’m here to introduce to you the epitome of flow and efficiency…
CSS Editorial Staff | October 10, 2013 | Lean
Never Overlook the Need for Safety Footwear
Our feet are one of the most used, yet underappreciated parts of the body. If you really sit down and think about it, most people spend a lot of time on their feet especially if they are employed in work positions which require constant bodily movement such as in construction, manufacturing, auto repair, etc. However,…
CSS Editorial Staff | September 9, 2013 | Safety Products | Foot Protection, PPE
Plumbing made easy with pipe markers
Plumbing is one of the most working systems in a house, factory, or any other facility. The twisting and turning structure of pipelines appears like a wire-frame structure of the road map of a city. The narrow and wide, short and long, structure provides a system of water transport in our facilities, just like the veins do…
CSS Editorial Staff | January 9, 2013 | Visual Safety | Facility Marking, Labeling, Pipe Marking, Safety, Valve Tag, Workplace Safety
Label Printer Reviews : LabelTac 4 Bumper Sticker Maker (Plus Other Labels)
LabelTac brand label printer and bumper sticker maker. One thing that industrial level labeling machines excel at is something that is decidedly NOT industrial in nature – making bumper stickers. Now, don’t get me wrong, a bumper sticker can be a great tool for your business–for marketing to outside vendors and consumers, for inner…
CSS Editorial Staff | July 24, 2012 | Visual Safety | Industrial Label Printer, Industrial Label Printers, Label Makers, Label Printer, Labeling