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National Electrical Safety Month: Keep Electrical Hazards Top of Mind

By Jared Meyer

May 6, 2021

Electrical Featured Posts Safety

Electricity is something we often take for granted. Because it’s so intertwined into our daily lives, from powering your smartphone to providing lighting in even the most obscure locations, we can often forget the dangers that come with it.

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How You Can Keep Safety Top of Mind Every Day

By Jared Meyer

Jan 17, 2021

Featured Posts Safety

If you visited any of your facilities and asked, “How often are you pulling your team together to talk about safety?”, what response do you think you would get? Varied responses are an indicator of the need to reexamine how, when, and what your facilities use to talk about safety, and to implement consistency across all locations.

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What You Need to Know: Struck-By Hazards

By Jared Meyer

Jul 23, 2019

Featured Posts Safety

Employees working on the job every day – from construction sites to warehouses – often become so comfortable with their daily activities, they can become complacent to the injury risks. Unfortunately, it’s this form of complacency that can result in job site injuries ranging from slips and falls to struck-by hazards.

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Injury Risks Beyond the Warehouse

By Jared Meyer

Feb 1, 2019

Featured Posts Safety

When thinking about workplace injuries, it’s easy to picture yourself in the warehouse trying to grab a box just out of reach and as you wiggle it off the shelf – you drop it on your foot. Or maybe you are walking through the warehouse and have a near miss with a forklift that didn’t see you coming.

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Understanding Cold Stress and How to Prevent It

By Jared Meyer

Jan 17, 2019

Featured Posts Safety

Whether you’re removing snow from your driveway, making work deliveries in cold pouring rain, or just attending a chilly outdoor event, you run the risk of getting a cold stress-related injury if you’re not properly protected or adequately prepared.

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5 Guidelines for Loading Dock Safety

By Jared Meyer

Jan 10, 2019

Featured Posts Safety

When you think of a loading dock, does a flurry of activity and the classic “beep, beep, beep” backup sound come to mind? On a daily basis, loading docks are a hub of activity for shipping and receiving functions that keep the lifeblood of businesses flowing. Unfortunately, about 25 percent of reported warehouse injuries occur on loading docks.

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Putting Your Best Foot Forward: Protect Workers With a Foot Protection Policy

By Jared Meyer

Nov 7, 2018

Featured Posts Safety

Consisting of 26 bones, 33 joints, and more than a hundred muscles, tendons, and ligaments, the human foot is an engineering marvel of the human body — one that needs the utmost protection while on the job.

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Spread the Word: October Is Fire Prevention Month

By Jared Meyer

Oct 1, 2018

Events MRO & General Supplies Featured Posts Safety

The frequency of non-residential fires has steadily increased over the last 10 years, resulting in 80 civilian deaths and over $3 billion dollars in direct property damage per year (NFPA). Factor in the monetary loss from business interruption and the impact is staggering.

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Fall Protection: Don’t Let Safety Fall by the Wayside

By Jared Meyer

Jun 11, 2018

Featured Posts Safety

Fall protection has progressively advanced over the years from single lap/torso belts to full body harnesses with significant safety features to quickly restrain a worker in the event of a fall. In industrial and construction settings, workers often need to reach elevated areas to retrieve material or place items for storage.

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Safe Lifting Techniques for Industrial Workers

By Jared Meyer

Feb 28, 2018

MRO & General Supplies Featured Posts Safety

Some of the most common workplace injuries are often the most preventable with proper education, hazard controls, and work area setup. One of the common mechanisms of sprain and strain injuries in the workplace relates to manually lifting heavy objects. While these injuries could occur in a number of situations, material handling tasks that required workers to bend, push, pull, lift, and lower were the leading causes.

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