When working on rooftops, safety should be everyone’s number one priority. There are, unfortunately, many different hazards that can be present on rooftop environments. This article goes into the top 10 common hazards to note before stepping foot onto a rooftop.
Category: Facility Safety
10 Reasons You Could Benefit from A Cart Mover
Material Handling Solutions: Powered Cart Movers|Lifting Equipment |Lift Tables
Cart Movers are designed to easily move heavy loads throughout your facility. These material handling units are perfect for ensuring worker safety and increasing productivity when pushing or pulling heavy equipment. They are convenient and portable, and do not have electric cords or pneumatic hoses to trip over.
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6 OHSA Changes Those Will Impact Ontario Employers
Amendments called the Stronger, Fairer Ontario Act, 2017 (Bill 177), have been made to the Ontario Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA) and went into effect on December 14, 2017.
Amendments called the Stronger, Fairer Ontario Act, 2017 (Bill 177), have been made to the Ontario Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA) and went into effect on December 14, 2017. These amendments are the largest changes that have been implemented into OHSA in over 15 years. Some of the changes include tripling corporate OHSA penalties and quadrupling individual OHSA penalties.
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SWL/WLL/MRC – What do These Abbreviations Stand for and When Should they be Used?
Do you know the difference between SWL/WLL/MRC and when they should be used?
Seven Steps to Safer Behaviour
One of the most common denominators for organizational performance issues is behavior, especially when it comes to safety. It is because of this that we often see repeated poor safety performance with no sustainable change in behavior due to the fact that the focus is on the action and not the behavior that lead to the action.
Prevent Accidents with Overhead Crane Safety
Accidents, property damage and fatalities occur every year due to improper use of cranes and equipment failure. Identifying hazards and adhering to simple inspection can safety guidelines reduce the probability of these unfortunate occurrences.
The Importance of Securing Product in Pallet Rack Bays
By definition, a pallet rack is a device or equipment usually used in big warehouses to store a number of materials. It has skids or pallets that are positioned in a horizontal way that reach up to 4 or more levels. Pallet Racking systems have the potential to minimize construction costs and increase storage capacity to the highest level, but when used incorrectly fundamental safety and security issues will arise.
Four Benefits of Golf Netting
FORE! A high quality netting system is a great investment for your golf course or range. Golf Ball Barrier Netting is an essential piece of athletic equipment to ensure that golf balls stay where they belong; within the range or course.
Three Important Risk Factors in Flatbed Truck Safety
The safety challenges associated with flatbed trucks can lead to hospital bills, lawsuits and worker downtime. To protect employees and reduce business risk, three important factors need to be understood.
The Importance of Load Testing Overhead Cranes and Hoists
It is critically important that lifting equipment is in proper working order before placing it in service, for the safety both employees and a facility. When it comes to safety, any part of equipment inspection cannot afford to be overlooked. The equipment inspection and maintenance process includes the testing of equipment before it is used in operations. We will be going in depth about the importance of load testing overhead hoists and cranes throughout this blog post.
Why Being Pro-Active is the Best Way to Deal With MOL Blitzes
Ensure that you are prepared for a MOL Blitz or MOL Inspection with these tips. The Ontario Ministry of Labour has recently hired hundreds of new inspectors making it more important than ever to ensure that you are complying with the law.
The Benefits of Implementing an Ergonomic Solution
Whether you are looking into implementing an ergonomic solution in order to move rolls, barrels or another item; there are a vast variety of different benefits that you can gain by implementing an ergonomic solution.
Why Pick Modules and Mezzanines Need a Fall Protection System
Pick Modules and Mezzanines are amazing ways to increase the production levels of a factory or warehouse, but they also introduce risk for employees. For employees working on them, there is the risk of falling, and for employees under them, there is a risk from falling product
How to Create a Safety Culture
You have probably heard of this term before “safety culture”, but what is a safety culture? And how can one cultivate one within your organization?
Spring Has Sprung: How to Have Safe Rooftop Maintenance
With spring just around the corner it is time to start thinking about your seasonal must-do’s for rooftop maintenance.
So where can you start?
What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You
What could happen if you don’t get your chain sling inspected?
Ensuring Your Web Slings Are Safe to Use
What should you be doing in order to ensure your web sling is safe to use? What are the three stages of inspections?
Fall Arrest Systems: Maintenance, Inspections & Classification
How can you extend the life of your fall arrest systems, while also ensuring they are safe for your employees to use? This post explains how.
Dock Levellers
Why is it so important that dock levellers be inspected? What can happen if they are not properly inspected? Read this article to learn more…
Air Balancers
How to properly use them and why & how to inspect them.
Wire Rope: Maintenance and Signs to Look Out For
What should you look out for or do in order to maintain and extend the the life of your wire rope?
Below the Hook End Effectors
What are End Effectors, End of Arm Tooling or Robotic End Effectors? What is their purpose? Why do people use them? How can they benefit me?
Five Potentially Fatal Machine Guarding Problems
Machine guarding is very important, but unfortunately many organizations either do not maintain their machine guards or simply do not install them at all. Here are five potentially fatal machine guarding issues and some reasons why the investment is recommended.
Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders
What are Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders? What can you do in order to protect yourself from developing one? What signs should you look out for? Read this article to find out more about this disorder.
One Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty
One thousand seven hundred and fifty, that is the number of people injured on average at baseball games each year. It is because of this staggering number that many baseball stadiums are looking to extend there netting to protect spectators.
How to Prepare for the Machine Safety Blitz
With the Machine Safety Blitz upon us it is time to take action in order to be prepared. So what can you do?
Let’s Change 735 Injuries to Zero
Machines need machine guarding, that’s a reality! There is a cost involved, however at the end of the day, it can and will save your employees.
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