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Evaluating Safety Equipment Suppliers

The safety equipment industry is constantly evolving to meet the emerging trends and challenges in workplace safety. Here are some points that need to be considered when you are evaluating safety equipment suppliers for revolutionizing workplace safety Is the supplier remain updated with emerging trends and challenges in the safety...

Why do you need to protect skylights on a roof?

Skylights are a great way to introduce natural light to your facility, reduce operating costs, and increase employee morale. However, they pose a significant safety hazard. Skylights can inadvertently pose a risk of falling. Generally, these elements made of polycarbonate or fiberglass are considered non-vulnerable. However, this rule only applies...

The Importance of Safety Gates in Enhancing Workplace Safety

Safety gates are a crucial component of any workplace safety plan, as they can help prevent accidents, injuries, and fatalities. In this blog post, we will discuss the importance of safety gates, the different types of gates available, and how they can enhance workplace safety. Importance of Safety Gates Industrial...

Make Sure Your Workplace Is Up To OSHA Compliance on Fall Safety

The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic impacted every industry. Now that the economy has seen a significant rebound, manufacturing and oil & gas production are in full swing again. Safety measures are critical now more than ever, and particularly those pertaining to fall safety. While addressing the danger of falls...

How to Make the Right Choice When Buying or Installing Guardrail?

What do you do when you need something? You Google it right! When you need a guardrail, selecting the suitable barrier requires more involvement than initially expected. It can be overwhelming with so many options. You find out that there are so many options available. GI, SS, FRP Aluminum, Welded,...

Roof Safety: Solar Rooftop Walkway | Chemey

Roof safety is a system of preventive and safety measures when performing work and repairs on rooftops. Roof safety should be practiced while on the job to avoid personal injuries and structural damage. Performing roof work exposes workers to risks such as falls, which are the leading cause of death...

Basics of Fall Protection Rules

With falls being one of the most common causes of workplace injuries and deaths, workers who work at heights must understand the basics of fall protection. Being proactive by implementing compliant methods of fall protection and fall prevention can save lives and prevent injuries. Consequently, it is important to be...

Guardrails – A popular form of fall protection on rooftop

Whenever our customers ask us to recommend a rooftop safety solution, we always follow hierarchy of hazard control to recommend the most appropriate form of fall protection. Avoid working a height or Eliminate hazard by redesigning work practice Prevent falls using collective equipment Restraint falls using personal protective equipment Arrest...

What does OSHA say on the topic of safety gates

What does OSHA say on the topic of safety gates? Are they required? Industrial facilities can be dangerous places for employees to work. Fortunately, safety managers can greatly reduce these risks by taking the proper safety measures. By installing safety gates and guardrails, employers can minimize OSHA violations, minimize employee...

Are Fall Protection and Fall Prevention Similar?

Fall prevention and Fall protection considerations are important in manufacturing industry and construction sites because falls, slips and trips are among the most common causes of work injuries and fatalities. We often use these phrases involving key words “protect” or “prevent” interchangeably. According to a dictionary, protect means “to defend...

Areas where Industrial Safety Gates are Needed

You need to provide total protection for the sake of the person who is working at heights. Industrial self-closing safety gates are a measure of fall protection or barrier protection that protect an area of movement. Here are two areas where an industrial safety gate will help to protect people...

Tanker and Bowser Truck Safety Hazards: Do You Know the Risks?

Working on a tanker is a grueling job with large hours and even larger physical demands over the duration of a haul. Certain drivers or operators will be required to climb atop their trailers 4 (four) or more times a day. Speaking with them and hearing some of their stories...

Anchor Points vs. Horizontal Lifelines: What is ideal?

Anchor points and horizontal lifelines are part of Personal Fall Arrest Systems which means that when you use them, a fall must occur. Handrail like EnduRail is the safest solution when installed and do not allow your employee to fall in the first place. However, let’s assume you’ve considered...

Modular Aluminum Handrails: High on Endurance, low in Cost of Ownership

Poor conditions of Handrails Discourage employees to use them as a regular Safety Practice & leads to fatal or serious injuries in case of accidents. The deprived condition of corroded / weak handrails put not only employees at risk but to organizations also. This hazards exacerbate when Handrails are used...

Creating a Safe Walkway

In a physical battle between man vs. machine, the machine is going to win…especially when that machine is a rolling piece of equipment weighing thousands of Kgs. Hoping pedestrians and operators are smart enough to avoid a tragic incident is not an acceptable – or highly effective – safety precaution. ...

THE MOST COMMON WAREHOUSE SAFETY & MEZZANINE FALL HAZARDS

In a warehouse environment, there are many hazards that workers are exposed to as they perform their duties. Many warehouses utilize mezzanines and elevated platforms to store equipment, materials, and supplies since growing upwards is more efficient than expanding the warehouse’s footprint. These platforms represent a potential falling hazard, both...

Safe Access Solution that Lasts for Decades

There are many types of work platforms: aerial work platforms (such as scissor lifts), scaffolding, or prefabricated, permanently installed platforms. Which one you choose to use depends on the type of work you plan on doing and the duration of that work. These platforms provide safe, easy access as well...

Why you must separate pedestrians and vehicles in Industry & Logistic Area

ACCIDENTS FROM OPERATING FORKLIFTS NOT ONLY CAN CAUSE PHYSICAL DAMAGE AND PERSONNEL INJURIES OR FATALITIES, BUT THEY ALSO CAN LEAD TO SUBSTANTIAL FINANCIAL LOSS FOR COMPANIES. A company may face Factory and Labor laws consequences after a worker get hit by a fork lift truck and suffered serious injuries. In area where...