It’s Pipe Marking Season! Get All Your Pipe Marking Resources in One Place
Now that spring has arrived and everything is thawing out, it’s the perfect time to take stock of your facility’s pipe labels. Maybe your labels took a beating over the winter and could use some cleaning. Maybe they’ve been in place for many years and are starting to look worn. Maybe you just haven’t thought about…
CSS Editorial Staff | April 3, 2017 | Industry News | Ammonia Pipe Marking, Facility Marking, Fire Safety, Labeling, OSHA, Pipe Marking, Regulations & Compliance, Safety
OSHA’s Training Program Operating Efficiently According to GAO
In addition to providing regulations, guidelines, and inspections, OSHA also offers an important training and education service, known as the Outreach Training Program. In fiscal year 2016, this program reached almost 900,000 workers and provided them with important training on a wide range of topics related to occupational hazard recognition and prevention. According to…
Tony Ferraro | March 27, 2017 | Industry News | OSHA, Regulations & Compliance, Safety
New Floor Tape Finder Helps You Choose Floor Tape
Wondering which floor tape would work best in your facility? Do you need a basic vinyl tape, a heavy-duty tape, or something that can even withstand the pivoting wheels of forklifts? Not sure what tape to buy? Use our new Floor Tape Finder to quickly get the answers. Our web-based Floor Tape Finder will…
CSS Editorial Staff | March 16, 2017 | Company Updates | 5S, Facility Marking, Floor Marking, Forklift Safety, Safety, Workplace Safety
LinkedIn Corner: Are Shorts Safe in Specific Work Environments?
Gregory Harriss, a Safety Coordinator at GEM Electric, recently posed an interesting question in the Construction Environmental Health and Safety group on LinkedIn. He posted, “We are electricians and I was told that employees are wanting to wear shorts in the summer time on the job sites. I personally have not seen any place that…
Tony Ferraro | March 6, 2017 | Industry News | Regulations & Compliance, Safety
When it Comes to Safety, there is Often More Fiction than Fact
Safety managers know that everyone seems to have their own thoughts about workplace safety. In most cases, everyone seems to think that their opinion on the subject is a fact that everyone should follow. Whether it is the executive that thinks that workplace safety is largely a waste of money, or the front line employee…
Tony Ferraro | February 20, 2017 | Safety Solutions | Safety
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 | OSHA, Safety, Workplace Safety
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 | 5S, Safety, Six Sigma
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 | Barcoding, Industrial Label Printers, Label Makers, Labeling, Rack Labeling, Safety, Warehouse Labels
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 | Facility Marking, Floor Marking, Floor Tape, Safety
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, OSHA, Safety, Workplace Safety
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 | Facility Marking, Floor Marking, Organized Workplace, Safety, Workplace Safety
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 | 5S, OSHA, Safety, Workplace Safety
Spill Kits 101
When running a facility of any type, you are going to have a variety of different chemicals and other potentially hazardous products on site. While these are necessary for getting jobs done, they can also be very dangerous if they are spilled. Even just water can cause a hazard if it is not cleaned up…
Tony Ferraro | June 3, 2016 | Product Spotlight | Safety, Spill Cleanup, Workplace Safety
5 Enhancements to Help with Safety
One of the biggest complaints that safety managers have when it comes to their jobs is that they don’t have the budget they need to make dramatic improvements. While this is certainly a concern, and one that should be addressed, it is not something that should completely stop you from taking steps toward a safer…
Tony Ferraro | May 20, 2016 | Safety Products | Facility Marking, Floor Marking, Organized Workplace, Safety, Safety Signs, Spill Cleanup, Tool Organization
Finding the Root Cause With the Five Whys
The “Five Why’s” is a technique that is often used within the Six Sigma methodology to help learn more about a situation and gain valuable information about what is going on. While the strategy is called the Five Why’s, it doesn’t actually have to be exactly five. In some situations, fewer are needed and in…
Tony Ferraro | May 12, 2016 | Lean | 5S, Five whys, Safety, Six Sigma
