Category: Manufacturing Safety
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What is your perceived worth?
Your probably reading this title and thinking, “you can’t put a price on me.” But the reality is, work politics are ruled by presence and perception. Take a $5 bar of iron as an example. If it is made into horseshoes, it is worth $12. If it is made into needles, it’s worth $3,500. If…
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The Psychology Of Manufacturing Safety
As you come across this article, the title may confuse you a bit. …”Psychology. What does that have to do with the Manufacturing workforce?” First of all, what is Psychology? According to the Psychological Association, Psychology is the study of the mind and behavior. Most of us, if not all of use psychology in our…
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Safety-From the machine shop floor
Machinist create and provide custom and unique parts for companies, industries, and manufacturing plants. Day in and day out they operate different pieces of equipment both manual and automatic (drilling machines, grinders, lathes, CNC machines.) to create a variety of parts needed to keep our plant running. It is an extremely precise job, requiring to…
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The Morning Drive
Words of advice from a tenured Manufacturing employee. Like many others at the site, I wake up at 3:45AM. I make my coffeeand press my uniform. I step out the door and smell the morning perfumeof earthy dew. I throw my lunch bag into the car to drive off to work. Thequiet drive provides time…
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Introducing Manufacturing Safety to the Modern Workforce
Life experiences are as diverse as the modern workforce. Everyone is introduced to Safety techniques at different times their lives. I remember as a little girl helping oil, clean, and change out small parts on my mothers’ Industrial sewing equipment. She had a small scrub business (uniforms nurses and doctors wear). She would take the…
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Preventing Hazards in the Workplace: Slips, Trips, and Falls
2 people per Day? One of the most common hazards in the workplace is not perceived as a serious hazard by workers. How many times have you walked by a small puddle of liquid and causally thought to yourself, “the janitorial staff will clean it up.” The truth of the matter is, that small puddle…
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