Mechanical

Dos and Don’ts Of Machinery Safety For Workers Do... check the machine is well maintained and fit to be used, ie appropriate for the job and working properly and...

Mechanical Machinery Hazards Most machinery has the potential to cause injury to people, and machinery accidents figure prominently in official accident statistics. These injuries may range in severity from a...

Safety In The Use Of Lifting & Moving Equipment An amendment to LOLER included the positioning and the installation of the lifting equipment and the organization of lifting operations Positioning and...

Hazards Associated With Confined Spaces? What is a Confined Space? Confined Space refers to any place, including any vessel, tank, container, pit, bund, chamber, cellar or any other similar space which,...

Little problems often become big problems if no one takes the initiative to correct them. If your employees don’t bother to report a malfunctioning machine or a slip-and-fall hazard,...

Here are the top nine reasons, workers often don't report near misses: 1. Fear Believe it or not, fear actually may be the least common reason workers avoid reporting near misses....

Workers have a right to a safe workplace and should speak up about unsafe conditions. That is the message from OSHA and many workplace safety programs. Yet workers sometimes see...

In this article we look at 3 common reasons why workplace hazards go unreported: 1. Culture: Group Thinking When humans are put into groups we are less likely to take action or...

Review the Safety Controls The control measures that you put in place should be reviewed regularly to make sure they work as planned. Don’t wait until something goes wrong. There are...

The most important step in managing risks involves eliminating them so far as is reasonably practicable, or if that is not possible, minimizing the risks so far as is...