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“Show Me”: Assessing The Foundation For Worker Training

FDR Safety

Unfortunately, we find that much of this training has no foundation… Let me explain. First, we fully understand that appropriate industry practice is to have an experienced worker training a new employee. In a few cases, the documentation of procedures is so voluminous as to be of little value for the new worker doing the job alone.

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Cloud Wars: Beyond Document Storage

Viewpoint Construction Technology

One article I came across talked about “Cloud Wars” – how cloud computing services, particularly data and document storage services, can no longer survive by just providing “dumb” storage. Document storage is now a commodity and document sharing has been made easier with cloud computing and web-based access.

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Build smarter with the construction industry's foundational tools

Construction Dive

The back and forth of handling bids and blueprints and managing documents between teams can lead to confusion and mixups. From kickoff to wrap-up of a construction project, you have a lot of moving parts to coordinate. But technology like Dropbox and Fieldwire can help cut through logistical down.

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Feasibility For Machine Guarding Is A Big Deal For Employers and Employees

FDR Safety

ANSI AND FEASIBILITY The Foreword to ANSI B11.0 – 2023, Safety of Machinery , contains two important statements to set the foundation for understanding feasibility and its use in the application of the Hierarchy of Controls: “Safe” is the state of being protected from recognized hazards that are likely to cause physical harm.

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FDR Safety

ANSI AND FEASIBILITY The Foreword to ANSI B11.0 – 2023, Safety of Machinery , contains two important statements to set the foundation for understanding feasibility and its use in the application of the Hierarchy of Controls: “Safe” is the state of being protected from recognized hazards that are likely to cause physical harm.

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? Updated ANSI standards a significant tool for U.S. industry

FDR Safety

The ANSI B11 series of standards is for general industry machine safety. was created in 2010 as a foundational standard for the safety of machinery. Risk assessment provides the foundation to select feasible safeguarding. industry appeared first on FDRsafety. Those dealing with harmonization of E.U.

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Assessing Feasibility

FDR Safety

General Industry is now in a position to solve many of their decades-old problems with the control of hazardous energy. The answers can be determined but only after documented due diligence using Task Based Risk Assessment (past blogs) and assessing feasibility of hazard controls.