PPE

October in Safety: Protecting the Eyes + Ears

October is both Eye Injury Prevention Month and National Protect Your Hearing Month! This is a great time to evaluate your personal protective equipment (PPE) program, replace ill-fitting or damaged equipment, and make sure employees’ hearing + vision is adequately protected. Eye Injury Prevention Month Did you know more than a million people per year are affected by an eye injury that probably could have been avoided?…

Jesse Allred | October 12, 2020 | Industry News, Safety Solutions | PPE, Safety, Workplace Safety

Protecting Stockroom and Loading Dock Workers During the Pandemic

As the novel coronavirus makes its impact around the world, frontline workers have been acknowledged and appreciated. Rightly so, retail workers have been regarded as essential alongside healthcare workers and first responders. Retail employees that work in stockrooms and on loading docks especially play an important role in ensuring that people continue to receive the food and supplies they need as the pandemic continues. It’s essential to…

Laura Myers | June 5, 2020 | Industry News, Safety Solutions | PPE, Reopening Series, Safety, Safety Signs, Social Distancing, Workplace Safety

Resuming Elective Healthcare During the COVID-19 Pandemic

When the COVID-19 pandemic first began to impact countries around the world earlier this year, non-essential healthcare procedures and elective surgeries were postponed partly to ensure that sufficient supplies were kept available for hospitals to treat coronavirus patients. Surgery and other medical care is deemed “elective” if the procedure can be delayed, without causing significant harm to the patient. Now that the first surge of the pandemic…

Laura Myers | May 28, 2020 | Industry News, Safety Solutions | Health, Healthcare, PPE, Reopening Series, Safety, Safety Signs, Social Distancing, Workplace Safety

Back to Operations: Manufacturing Safety During the COVID-19 Outbreak

As more businesses are given permission to reopen, many manufacturing facilities are returning to normal operations. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, however, the way that workers must be protected has changed and manufacturing must now incorporate new health and safety policies. While these policies will be implemented differently in each facility, all manufacturers can protect their workforce by proactively enacting social distancing policies, promoting a culture of…

Jesse Allred | May 21, 2020 | Safety Solutions | Health, OSHA, PPE, Reopening Series, Safety, Social Distancing, Workplace Safety

Eclipse Safety: Watch The Skies Without Wrecking Your Eyes

On August 21, 2017, North America will be visited by a rare celestial event that NASA describes as “nature’s greatest spectacle.” While most of the continent will bear witness to a partial solar eclipse, those living in (or visiting) a roughly 80-mile-wide swath (known as the “path of totality”) stretching from Lincoln Beach in Oregon to Charleston, SC will see a total solar eclipse — the first…

CSS Editorial Staff | July 27, 2017 | Industry News | Eclipse, PPE

OSHA Updates on PPE

This week Summit Safety Group looks at some OSHA updates and what they look at when performing a walkthrough in a facility. Specifically, what they are looking at in regards to personal protective equipment used in any given situation. The video points out that offering personal protective equipment to employees is not sufficient to pass an OSHA walkthrough. Instead, there must be a full PPE hazard assessment…

Tony Ferraro | March 20, 2017 | Industry News | OSHA, PPE

Noise and Hearing Loss Prevention – Disturbing Facts & How to Protect Your Employees

Noise and Hearing Loss Prevention When thinking about workplace safety most people start by looking at things like fall prevention, hand protection, and other hazards that can cause immediate or severe injury. One of the most common safety concerns in the workplace, however, often gets ignored. This is the risk of hearing loss, which impacts about 22 million people every year. This fact, and most of the…

Tony Ferraro | December 18, 2014 | Safety Solutions | Hearing Loss, Hearing Protection, PPE, Safety, Workplace Safety

Welding Safety Hazards – The Five Things You Need to Know

Exploring Welding Safety Hazards It is not surprising to many that welding is a job with a lot hazards associated with it. To make matters worse, the hazards associated with welding are often more severe than many others in the workplace, which means they need to be taken especially seriously. 5 Welding Safety Hazards that You Should Know Addressing these welding safety hazards is an important part…

Tony Ferraro | December 9, 2014 | Safety Solutions | Electrical Safety, PPE, Safety, Workplace Safety

PPE Frequently Asked Questions

Reviewing PPE and Making Better Decisions Buying personal protection equipment (PPE) for your facility isn’t always as easy a job as it sounds. The days of just purchasing some hard hats and calling it good are long in the past, and with so many different items to consider, it is important that you have a good understanding of exactly what you need, and why. With that in…

Tony Ferraro | November 17, 2014 | Safety Products | PPE

Workplace Safety Hazards – The 5 Hidden Dangers

Detecting Workplace Safety Hazards If you are looking at different ways to improve the safety of your facility, it is important to look for all types of workplace safety hazards. Some of them will be quite obvious and easy to address, but others will be harder to detect. Look at the following examples of hidden dangers that may be found in almost any facility. Knowing to look…

Tony Ferraro | October 29, 2014 | Safety Solutions | Electrical Safety, PPE, Safety, Workplace Safety

10 Construction Safety Facts that May Surprise You

Make Construction Safety a Priority Everyone knows that construction sites can be very dangerous. The more you know about the types of danger you will face, however, will help you to take steps toward keeping everyone safe. Look over the following 10 safety facts and see what you can learn about how to improve the overall safety of your facility. In addition to using this information to…

Tony Ferraro | October 20, 2014 | Safety Solutions | Crane Safety, Electrical Safety, Labeling, Lockout Tagout, OSHA, PPE, Safety

The 11 Most Common Workplace Hazard Areas In Your Facility

Do You Know the Common Workplace Hazard Areas In Your Facility? When working in a facility for eight or more hours per day, at least five days per week, it is easy to develop a sort of ‘blindness’ to some of the more common workplace hazards. Of course, if something is on fire, or there are other types of major problems, they will get addressed right away.…

Tony Ferraro | June 10, 2014 | Safety Solutions | Electrical Safety, Facility Marking, Fire Safety, Labeling, Ladder Safety, PPE, Safety, Safety Signs, Workplace Safety

Hazard Communications – One Tool That Can Help

Floor Marking Tape Continues to Help with Hazard Communications Keeping a facility running safely and efficiently can be very difficult. While most companies try to improve safety whenever possible, they often miss some obvious problems. This is illustrated by the 2011 report from Workplace Safety Pro, which listed the top 25 general industry violations. When looking through the list, one big thing really stands out is that…

Tony Ferraro | June 9, 2014 | Safety Solutions | Facility Marking, Floor Marking, Hazcom, PPE, Safety, Workplace Safety

Silica Dust 101 – What It Is and Why It’s Harmful

Silica is a common sedimentary component of rocks, sand, and other natural earth materials. In its purest form, it is most often seen as quartz, but it exists in many other types of materials. As one of the basic building blocks of many rocks (in fact, silicon, which makes up silica, is the second most abundant element on earth next to oxygen), silica itself is not at…

Tony Ferraro | March 31, 2014 | Safety Solutions | PPE, Safety

How to Handle Chemical Spills

The goal of workplace safety programs is primarily to prevent accidents and injuries by helping train people on how to minimize risk and work more safely. An important part of any program also must focus on how to respond when something goes wrong. Nowhere is this truer than when there is a chemical spill in the facility. Depending on the types of chemicals being used in the…

Tony Ferraro | March 18, 2014 | Safety Solutions | Emergency Evacuation, Fire Safety, GHS, PPE, Regulations & Compliance, Safety, Spill Cleanup, Workplace Safety