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Assessing Feasibility

FDR Safety

The answers can be determined but only after documented due diligence using Task Based Risk Assessment (past blogs) and assessing feasibility of hazard controls. The method of determining practicability is found in ANSI B11.0 – 2015, the foundation standard for the family of ANSI B11 General Industry Safety Standards.

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A Wake-up Message for Employers or An Ounce of Prevention…

FDR Safety

What’s often missed and not understood is the in-between, where tasks are not minor servicing but LOTO is not feasible. In situations where LOTO is not feasible, an ALTERNATIVE METHOD is needed. Jim Stanley is one of the nation’s most respected occupational safety consultants. For a FREE consultation, please contact us.

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The Complexity Of OSHA’s PSM Standard

FDR Safety

Unfortunately, we find that much of this training has no foundation… Let me explain. Using accepted ANSI standards, we are able to make use risk assessment, feasible risk reduction using the hazard control hierarchy and acceptable risk to solve real-world problems.

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PTD Before Risk Assessment: A Historical Perspective

FDR Safety

It chronicles the foundations and evolution that brought those engaged in the practice of engineering and safety to the current state of PTD in one company. The advent of risk assessment for manufacturing in the late 1990s established the foundation for today’s PTD initiatives. For a FREE consultation, please contact us.

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How To Create Effective Safety Signage

FDR Safety

Historically, the foundation for “good safety signage” contains symbols with few or no words, with the words or symbols being placed so they make sense to a person seeing the sign for the first time. The FDR TaBRA process includes determination of feasible risk reduction for the specific machine and task.

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Good Safety Signage

FDR Safety

Historically, the foundation for “good safety sign” contains symbols with few or no words, with the words or symbols being placed so they make sense to a person seeing the sign for the first time. The FDR TaBRA process includes determination of feasible risk reduction for the specific machine and task.

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5 ways mass timber will reshape the design of life sciences facilities

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BR+A Consulting Engineers, and Code Red Consultants, there are feasible, cost-effective strategies for building mass timber labs that align with industry standards. Columns, spaced 33 feet apart, are notched at the top to receive the girders, thereby transferring the floor loading to the foundation.

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