5 Floor Marking Rules for a Safe Workplace
It’s Time to Review the Rules of Floor Marking If you’re looking at updating your facilities floor markings to help improve the safety of the company, it is important that you take the time to ensure you’re doing it right. Spending time up front in planning and implementation can help you avoid a lot of…
Tony Ferraro | June 25, 2014 | Floor Marking | Facility Efficiency, Facility Marking, Fire Safety, Floor Marking, Floor Signs, Healthcare, OSHA, Regulations & Compliance, Safety, Safety Signs, Workplace Safety
What is Fault Current?
Arc Flash, Fault Current, and OSHA Electricity, for all its interaction with just about every aspect of today’s modern world, is still a general mystery to the layperson. While we may have a sort of idea of some of the terminology – hey, there was a band called AC/DC after all – most managers aren’t…
Tony Ferraro | June 16, 2014 | Safety Solutions | Arc Flash, Electrical Safety, Equipment Labeling, Fault Current, Fire Safety, Labeling, OSHA, Regulations & Compliance, Safety
When to Choose a Large Label Printer
Are You Thinking about Purchasing a Large Label Printer? Printing safety signs and custom labels for your facility is a big part of keeping everyone safe, as well as ensuring the facility remains in compliance with local, state and federal regulations. Safety managers at facilities need to make sure they always have the right signs…
Tony Ferraro | May 29, 2014 | Safety Products | Barcoding, Equipment Labeling, Facility Marking, Labeling, OSHA, Regulations & Compliance, Safety, Safety Signs, Tool Organization
“Back” to the Basics – Preventing Lower Back Injuries in the Workplace
Back pain and injuries account for some of the most reported and most serious common workplace injuries worldwide. In fact, you’d be hard-pressed to find a country whose labor department doesn’t dedicate pages of literature to both employers and employees solely on this topic. Loss of work days and productivity, lifelong injuries and disabilities, and…
Tony Ferraro | April 16, 2014 | Safety Solutions | Back Injuries, Forklift Safety, Health, Injuries, Injury Prevention, OSHA, Regulations & Compliance, Safety, Workplace Injuries, Workplace Safety
Arc Flash Explosions & Prevention
Most commonly, the hazards we associate with electricity and exposed electrical equipment are those due to direct contact. In these cases, a worker might accidentally touch an uninsulated wire or piece of electrical equipment, and momentarily become a conductor themselves. Severe burns and arrhythmia or stoppage of the heart can occur. What most people don’t…
Tony Ferraro | April 2, 2014 | Safety Solutions | Arc Flash, Electrical Safety, Equipment Labeling, Fire Safety, Labeling, OSHA, Regulations & Compliance, Safety, Safety Signs
What’s Coming in 2014 from OSHA
In an ongoing effort to keep up with the rapidly changing occupational hazards, OSHA focuses their efforts on specific areas each year. In 2014 they have selected a diverse set of topics that they will be taking a close look at. Whether OSHA is busy writing new standards, performing additional inspections or offering updated guidelines,…
Tony Ferraro | March 28, 2014 | Safety Solutions | OSHA, Regulations & Compliance, Safety
Job Safety Analysis
Preparing a job safety analysis is an important part of any facility or safety manager’s job. These reports can be extremely beneficial in identifying what types of risks exist in a specific job, so action can be taken to keep people safe. Once you know the risks, it is much easier to either do something…
Tony Ferraro | March 21, 2014 | Safety Solutions | Facility Marking, OSHA, Regulations & Compliance, Safety, Workplace 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…
Tony Ferraro | March 18, 2014 | Safety Solutions | Emergency Evacuation, Fire Safety, GHS, PPE, Regulations & Compliance, Safety, Spill Cleanup, Workplace Safety
Five Steps to Proper Hand Protection in the Workplace
Cuts and lacerations, sprains, broken bones, burns, and infections all affect the hands of millions of workers every single year in America. While employees generally seek to be careful and are protective of their own bodies, accidents happen and, when they do, they can range from the very minor to the very severe, going so…
Tony Ferraro | March 13, 2014 | Safety Solutions | Hand Safety, OSHA, Regulations & Compliance, Safety, Safety Signs, Workplace Safety
Accident Investigation – Everything You Need to Know About Surviving A Post-Accident Investigation
Unfortunately, workplace accidents are inevitable and occur across the country on a variety of scales on a daily basis. Most accidents are minor, with some even going unreported, but for many there are followup investigations that can potentially drag on for months or even years, much to the chagrin of a business owner trying to…
Tony Ferraro | March 10, 2014 | Safety Solutions | Accident Investigation, OSHA, Regulations & Compliance, Safety
7 Reasons to use Industrial Floor Signs
Industrial floor signs, or industrial floor stickers, used in factories and other work floors, have a variety of uses. These can range from simply helping employees find their way around to facilitating lean projects and other endeavors. Just to show you how versatile these floor signs are, here are seven unique uses for industrial floor…
Tony Ferraro | January 28, 2014 | Safety Products | Emergency Evacuation, Floor Marking, Floor Signs, Forklift Safety, Organized Workplace, Regulations & Compliance, Safety, Safety Signs
6 Ways to Use Floor Tape
If you’ve ever visited a warehouse making use of floor tape, you may have noticed their clean, easily defined walkways and organization. You might also have noticed that, even as a new visitor to the premises, you could quickly find your way around and identify the areas you should and shouldn’t be standing in. It…
Tony Ferraro | January 22, 2014 | Floor Marking | Facility Marking, Floor Marking, Floor Tape, Regulations & Compliance, Safety
Why Workers Avoid PPE & What You Can Do About It
Personal Protection Equipment, or PPE, is both a necessity and a major hurdle for many workplaces. PPE keeps workers safe and usually covers things like hard hats, safety vests, safety goggles or glasses, headphones, and gloves (thought it is certainly not limited to this list). The biggest problem with PPE is compliance, far and away;…
Tony Ferraro | November 6, 2013 | Safety Solutions | PPE, Regulations & Compliance, Safety
NFPA 70E Update Overview
The NFPA or National Fire Protection Association is responsible for creating the NFPA 70E which is the standard for electrical safety within the workplace. When it comes to electrical safety in the workplace, there are basically three different types of electrical hazards; they are electrical shock, electrical arc flash, and electrical arc blast. It is…
Tony Ferraro | August 23, 2013 | Safety Solutions | 70E, Arc Flash, Electrical Safety, Fire Safety, NFPA, Regulations & Compliance, Safety
Changes Ahead: OSHA’s GHS HazCom Standard
Changes are always occurring around us, if processes or practices sit idle for too long they become outdated and less efficient while everything else continues to improve. OSHA’s GHS HazCom Standard is no exception to this rule. The OSHA HazCom Standard is in place to protect employees from exposure to hazardous chemicals through the use…
Tony Ferraro | August 15, 2013 | Safety Solutions | GHS, Hazcom, Labeling, OSHA, Regulations & Compliance, Safety