Safety Equipment

Latest Safety Equipment Articles

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  Fall Protection

  Roof Safety: An Elevated Hazard

  Sending workers up on a roof comes with one big, obvious hazard. There are leading edges at every side and falling from any of them can result in a very serious injury...

  By: Shawn Mantel

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  Hazards

  Using Technology to Protect Employees from Workplace Violence

  Violence is an occupational hazard that can affect employees in any field or industry. OSHA defines workplace violence as an act or threat of “physical violence,...

  By: Yasmine Mustafa | Co-Founder & CEO

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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