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Weekly Safety Meeting – Portable Grinder Safety

Weekly Safety Meeting – Portable Grinder Safety

Portable Grinder Safety Portable grinding wheels are designed to operate at very high speeds. If a grinding wheel shatters while in use, the fragments can travel over 300 miles per hour. The potential for serious injury, material damage, and other losses from these shooting fragments is great. To ensure that...

Safety Tip of the Week – Portable Grinder Safety

Safety Tip of the Week – Portable Grinder Safety

Portable Grinder Safety Portable grinding wheels are designed to operate at very high speeds. If a grinding wheel shatters while in use, the fragments can travel over 300 miles per hour. The potential for serious injury, material damage, and other losses from these shooting fragments is great. To ensure that...

Safety Tip of the Week – Machinery Safety

Safety Tip of the Week – Machinery Safety

Machinery Safety According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, over 1,100 workers in the United States were killed last year by contact with equipment or by being caught up in running machinery. Be alert working around or operating machinery: The point of operation: That is where the work of the...

Weekly Safety Meeting – Machinery Safety

Weekly Safety Meeting – Machinery Safety

Machinery Safety According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, over 1,100 workers in the United States were killed last year by contact with equipment or by being caught up in running machinery. That’s 20% of all fatalities in the workplace. Over a thousand people killed in ways that could have...

Safety Tip of the Week – Hand Protection

Safety Tip of the Week – Hand Protection

Hand Protection Follow the work practices and use the equipment and gloves provided by your employer. Gloves and safety procedures won’t work if they’re not used or followed. Be aware of the job tasks, equipment, and materials that can create a risk for a hand injury or put your skin...

Safety Tip of the Week – Hazard Awareness

Safety Tip of the Week – Hazard Awareness

Hazard Awareness     A hazard can be defined as a condition or changing set of circumstances that presents a potential for injury, illness, or property damage or the potential or inherent characteristics of an activity, condition, or circumstance that can produce adverse or harmful consequences. So as you begin work,...