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Are Your Safety Policies Asking for Trouble?

FDR Safety

FDRsafety supports and promotes employers developing strong safety policies, training their employees and enforcing those policies. Enforcing machine lockout when lockout is not feasible. Policy and training needs to also deal with the 5% where serious injury could occur because safeguarding and procedures did not address the variable.

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Is Gravity Part of OSHA’s LOTO Regulation?

FDR Safety

However, the ability for any management to foresee the thousands of maintenance tasks where a skilled worker must deal with gravity is not practicable nor feasible. The only practicable and feasible means of addressing this issue is to deal with it as part of your training for the control of hazardous energy.

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Is Gravity Part of OSHA’s LOTO Regulation?

FDR Safety

However, the ability for any management to foresee the thousands of maintenance tasks where a skilled worker must deal with gravity is not practicable nor feasible. The only practicable and feasible means of addressing this issue is to deal with it as part of your training for the control of hazardous energy.

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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. Risk assessment is one of the most powerful safety tools we have. Risk assessment, or RA for short, will guide you in the application of feasible risk reduction controls. Are you ready to unlock the “best kept secret” in safety?

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The Complexity Of OSHA’s PSM Standard

FDR Safety

FDRsafety continues to encounter situations where worker training is incomplete or lacking, especially in safety. I recently attended the 2 nd Annual Process Safety Summit in Washington DC on Oct 15-16, 2019. I do not like standard safety signs and warnings because they typically mean little to the worker.

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

FDR Safety

However, I’m puzzled why companies don’t adequately deal with these issues before the problems occur. 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. Former No.

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EP04: Essential Lessons for a New Safety Professional

Safety Services Company

_. When you’re just starting out in the safety field, it’s important to embrace the idea that you don’t know it all. shares some hard-earned lessons for new safety professionals. shares some hard-earned lessons for new safety professionals. Lessons for new safety professionals. Safety certifications are important.

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