Has your company cut back due to tough economic times? Budgets decrease and workloads increase on the remaining employees. No matter how tough times become, workplaces can’t afford to cut-back on safety precautions. Safety signs and labels provide awareness and protection for everyone in and around a workplace. In the article “Safety Signs of the Times” by Steve Stephenson talks about continuing to drive the use of safety signs worldwide to reduce workplace injuries in today’s economy.
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A new study from Wisconsin suggests that milk manufactured in large dairy farms is cleaner than milk manufactured in small farms. While buying from local smaller companies is becoming more and more popular, this may be a surprising find. No matter the size of the dairy farm sanitary flooring, safe work platforms, healthy cows, proper refrigeration and clean equipment are absolute essentials.
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Grain handling facilities consist of grain elevators, feed mills, dust palletizing plants, dry corn mills, soybean flaking operations, flour and rice mills and dry grinding operations of soycake. These operations have lead to many health and safety hazards. The two leading causes of deaths in these operational facilities are suffocation from the amount of airborne grain dust, confined spaces and falls from the slippery flooring around machinery. Employees would benefit from a non-slip floor around the slick areas.
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The Wild Animal Sanctuary in Keenesburg, Colorado rescued 25 lions from traveling circuses in Bolivia in late 2010. The sanctuary built compounds to hold all of the rescued lions and is now in the process of building a catwalk to lead visitors from the older lion habitats through the black bear, wolf and tiger habitats to the new lion compound. The metal walkway ranges from 22 to 40 feet high in the air. The sanctuary expects the metal walkway to be completed by the end of the year and it will eventually lead to an elevated 4,000 square foot platform in the new compound.
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The AUSA is a land warfare exposition that allows exhibitors to showcase new products and technologies utilized in the defense industry.
Location:
Walter E. Washington Convention Center
801 Mount Vernon Plance
Washington, D.C. 20001
Booth Number:
649
Dates:
October 10 – 12, 2011
Exhibit Hours:
Monday, 10 October 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Tuesday, 11 October 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Wednesday, 12 October 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Wednesday, 12 October 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
A new white paper entitled “New Findings on Serious Injuries and Fatalities,” by BST Solutions, a safety consulting firm that strives to help companies become injury-free, reflects new findings on the differences in preventing serious injuries as opposed to non-serious injuries. While safety measures such as plain tread plate flooring, slip resistant shoes, safety procedures, and record keeping may help prevent some injuries, fatalities and serious injuries may not be affected.
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Many industrial facilities around the United States are required to follow numerous federal government standards, such as food and beverage plants. Due to the fact that food processing plants are exposed to all sorts of food byproducts, including fats, oils, blood, sugar solutions and natural food acids, the corrosive nature may damage the flooring if the proper coating is not applied. If the proper coating is not applied, uncontrolled growth of bacteria may form, ultimately degrading the foods purity. The chosen coating must be thick and durable enough to prevent contaminants from corroding the surface.
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Slip resistance is critical in many applications; even more so in hurricane prone areas. In Clay County, Florida, their emergency operations center was designed to withstand a category 5 hurricane. The architect who designed the building incorporated metal grates in various areas to protect the building and workers when it’s needed most. A metal grate folds over the front of the building to protect the windows from flying debris. Another grate is incorporated into an outside stairway that leads to communication equipment and weather devices.
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