Latest Safety Equipment Articles
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Safety Software
5 Key Ways Connected Worker Technology Improves Plant Safety
Plant managers are responsible for ensuring that their workplaces are safe and their employees are protected. Prioritizing safety leads to fewer workplace injuries,...
By: Eric Whitley
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Process Safety
How Fail-Safe Design Keeps Workers Safe When Things Go Wrong
Even if you have the most air-tight safety program, you can't guarantee that your equipment and machinery won't fail.It could happen for a number of reasons...
By: Daniel Clark | Safety and Quality Management System Specialist
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Safety Equipment
Overcoming Challenges to Safeguarding Legacy Machinery
If your company has been in operation for decades, it's likely that you have some legacy machinery somewhere on site.These machines are manufacturing equipment that...
By: Shawn Mantel
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Safety Equipment
How to Use Drones to Improve Workplace Safety
A life lost or people injured at the workplace is a tragedy that is challenging to process, especially when there are options that could have prevented the fatality.In...
By: James Rennie
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Safety Equipment
Using Machine Guards to Improve Industrial Manufacturing Safety
Many of the manufacturing tools, machinery, and processes that are still in use can be traced back decades or even centuries ago. Looking for ways to safeguard workers...
By: Henry Skjerven
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Fall Protection
An Overview of Self-Retracting Fall Protection Devices
Falling from height is one of the most dangerous hazards of on-site work, whether in construction or other areas of industry. Here are some recent and sobering numbers...
By: Steve Prentice
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Safety Equipment
The Equipment You Need for a Confined Space Rescue
A confined space is a space that has not been designed for continuous human occupancy but is still large enough for your employees to enter. It has limited or difficult...
By: Karoly Ban Matei | HR and Safety Manager
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PPE
How to Buy the Right Safety Harness for Your Job
There are many occupations that require the use of harnesses when working at heights, such as roofing, oil and gas, and confined space work. Not all of them are made...
By: Todd Wells
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EHS Programs
Gas Hazards in Commercial Cannabis Operations
There are currently 36 states that allow the medical use of cannabis. 14 states now have made it legal to use it recreationally, while 16 have decriminalized it.These...
By: Karoly Ban Matei | HR and Safety Manager
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Safety Equipment
6 Important Questions About Bump Testing Your Gas Detector
When working in hazardous atmospheres, it's not enough to rely on your senses to verify that the area is safe to enter or to notice that the environmental variables...
By: Karoly Ban Matei | HR and Safety Manager
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Safety Signs
5 Ways to Use Floor Marking Tape on the Job Site
Floor marking tape (or safety floor tape) is a simple but effective communication tool and should be an integral part of your company’s signage and safety program...
By: Brad Hestbak
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Safety Equipment
The 5 Expenses You'll Avoid by Investing in Machine Safety
Cost avoidance is defined by any action taken in the present that prevents incurring greater costs in the future. For example, routinely investing in machine safety to...
By: Shawn Mantel
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