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Product Spotlight: SignCast™ Virtual Sign and Line Units
Floor markings such as lines marking the edges of traffic lanes or stop signs to help with traffic flow play an important role in the safety and efficiency of a workplace. Many workplaces struggle to use these markings, though, because their floors are uneven, are made of materials not conducive to the use of paint…
CSS Editorial Staff | February 10, 2017 | Product Spotlight | Floor Marking | 2 min read
Product Spotlight: Gauge Warning Film Circles
Gauges are used in many workplaces to display things like speed, pressure, temperature, fill level, and more. These gauges make it easy for employees to keep an eye on a measurement that they can’t physically inspect. In most cases, gauges will have ideal levels, warning levels, and danger levels that need to be monitored for.…
Tony Ferraro | February 6, 2017 | Product Spotlight | Warning Film | 2 min read
Product Spotlight – Bepop Printers
When shopping for industrial label printers, it is important to find one that is reliable, produces high quality labels and signs, and can keep up with the demand of the facility. Bepop printers excel in all three of these categories, and many others. When evaluated in real working conditions, it is easy to see that…
Tony Ferraro | January 30, 2017 | Product Spotlight | Industrial Label Printer | 2 min read
2016 Scholarship Award Winner Selected
This year’s Creative Safety Supply Scholarship Competition received many impressive applications from students across the country. It was a competitive field of applicants, and we’re excited to have had such a positive response to our new scholarship. The winner of this year’s award is Morgan Dean, a senior at the University of Virginia. Dean is…
CSS Editorial Staff | January 27, 2017 | Company Updates | Scholarship | 1 min read
New at Creative Safety Supply – Collision Sentry Warning System
In workplaces where both pedestrians and indoor vehicles such as forklifts need to share the same space, accidents are a real possibility. Unfortunately, when accidents occur between people and vehicles, the results can be very serious. Most facilities try to put up safety signs to remind everyone to be careful, but that is not always…
Tony Ferraro | January 23, 2017 | Product Spotlight | Warning System | 3 min read
Are Safety Professionals Often Snake Oil Salesmen?
When working in the safety industry your performance can (and all too often does) mean the difference between life and death. The difference between having someone go home after a long day at work, and having someone go to the hospital after an accident. We would all like to think that every safety professional in…
Tony Ferraro | January 19, 2017 | Safety Solutions | LinkedIn, OSHA | 3 min read
A Conversation on How to be an Effective Safety Professional
An interesting post was recently made by Doug Thompson in the EHSQ Elite Safety Group on LinkedIn, which prompted quite a thought provoking discussion. Mr. Thompson is a student at Columbia Southern University, and he titled his post, “Advice on how to be an effective safety professional.” He then wrote just one simple sentence, which…
Tony Ferraro | January 18, 2017 | Safety Solutions | EHSQ Elite, LinkedIn | 3 min read
The 5th S | Sustaining Your Improvements
When learning the 5S methodology, the vast majority of the time spent will be on the first four S’s. The last S, which stands for Shitsuke, or Sustain, however, is almost certainly going to be the most important one. Without this S, all the others would quickly fall out of use and the progress that…
Tony Ferraro | January 16, 2017 | 5S | 5S, Sustain | 3 min read
Make Warehouse Labels with Your LabelTac Printer
When operating a warehouse, nothing is more important than organization. Warehouses often have thousands of shelves, and it is essential to be able to pinpoint where each piece of inventory is located at a given time. For many companies, this is where a LabelTac label printer can really help to get the job done. LabelTac…
Tony Ferraro | January 10, 2017 | Product Spotlight | LabelTac | 2 min read
How to Clean Floor Tape
Using floor tape is a great way to keep a facility safe, organized, and efficient. Just like any type of flooring, floor tape can get quite dirty over time. When floor tape gets dirty, it can become harder to see, which defeats the purpose of using it at all. This is why so many people…
Tony Ferraro | January 5, 2017 | Product Spotlight | Floor Tape | 2 min read
March 2017 is the First Annual #LadderSafetyMonth
Millions of people each year climb up on ladders to complete a wide range of different tasks. Whether it is a homeowner trying to fix the siding, or a construction company working on a job, ladders are an essential tool that most people will need to use at one time or another. Unfortunately, ladders also…
Tony Ferraro | January 4, 2017 | Industry News | ladder safety | 2 min read
SafetyTac Floor Marking Tape in Real 5S Projects
We often read about how 5S strategies and projects can help improve the safety and efficiency of the workplace. For those who are just starting to consider using them in the work place, all of this can seem like a lot of theory without any concrete examples of what things like lean tape, hazard tape,…
Tony Ferraro | December 30, 2016 | Product Spotlight | SafetyTac Lean Tape, Smartstripe Hazard Tape | 2 min read
What is Yokoten & Why Don’t Most Companies Use it?
When it comes to safe and efficient operation of a workplace, most people are used to reading Japanese terms like Kaizen, Gemba, Gembutsu, Kanban, and more. Many companies, however, overlook the term Yokoten, and the many benefits it can bring. Barry Jeffrey posted an interesting article to the LinkedIn Group, “Gemba Academy,” where it generated…
Tony Ferraro | December 22, 2016 | Lean | Yokoten | 2 min read
Improving Safety Through Broad Knowledge
Conventional wisdom suggests that the safety manager at a facility needs to be an expert on things like applicable OSHA regulations, incident rates, and safety patterns at the facility itself. While all of this may be true, Dr. Judith A. Erickson argues that their knowledge must be much broader than that in order to truly…
Tony Ferraro | December 19, 2016 | Safety Solutions | EHSQ Elite, LinkedIn | 3 min read
Can Your Office Benefit from Lean Strategies?
When most people think of LEAN, they think of manufacturing, and it is no surprise why. A recent post by Mark Bridges in the “Lean Six Sigma and Continuous Improvement Group” on LinkedIn, brings up the idea of using Lean strategies in an office environment. His post looked specifically at how the office side of a…
Tony Ferraro | December 14, 2016 | Lean | Lean Strategies | 3 min read
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