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ANSI B11 and risk assessment: The best kept secret in safety

FDR Safety

national standards dealing with the safety requirements for general industry machines. At the recent ASSE Professional Development Conference, there was considerable focus on risk assessment, voluntary standards and prevention through design. Risk assessment is one of the most powerful safety tools we have.

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Can metal lathes be made safe?

FDR Safety

An article on an Australian safety website described the tragic death of a worker whose coat was caught in a lathe and asked the question that is the title of this article: Can metal lathes be made safe? that prevents the machine from starting while open will remove or significantly reduce most lathe safety risks…. Back to lathes.

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Everyday Employee Safety

Safety Services Company

How to Promote Employee Safety in the Workplace. Welcome to Safe Friday, this week we’re going to cover employee safety. On the job safety is a program of proactive participation between employers, supervisors, and employees; safety is everyone’s business. Everyone needs to be involved in company safety.

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Prevention through design – a tip to make things easier

FDR Safety

The March issue of ASSE’s Professional Safety magazine was devoted to the subject of Prevention through Design (PtD), with three excellent articles that covered: Integrating PtD into undergraduate curricula. Our bosses told us not to look to safety because they had no more information than they did. The answer – precious little.

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Are You Ready For An OSHA Audit?

FDR Safety

Many, if not most safety courses, are designed for administrative issues of compliance. We use risk assessment and feasible risk reduction methodology that is part of the ANSI B11 family of general industry machine safety standards. The good news is that FDRsafety can help. Even better is that our process is simple.

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Construction project management 101 – Checklist

Lets Build

The business models, though, are of two forms — it’s either design, bid, build where the project owner chooses a contractor after the design phase or design-build where both design and construction phases are done by one contractor. Stakeholders then perform feasibility testing accordingly. The process. Initiation.

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Safety Programs

Safety Services Company

Safety Programs. Welcome to Safe Friday, this week we’re going continue to cover the ins and outs of Safety Programs. This week, we're going cover the ins and outs of what should be included in your workplace safety program. Establishing Safety Programs. Attending all required safety programs and health meetings.

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