safety training

  • Onboarding People Should Be About Finding Information

    • May 22, 2024
    • Posted by: David Marshall
    • Category: Business, Management, Productivity, Safety
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    Safety training should be an ongoing effort, not just part of the initial onboarding

    When you’re inducting new people into your organization, it’s not uncommon to present them with a lot of information, reading of the manuals, showing them how to operate the company software, and to actually perform their job. In fact, the first few days of most onboarding processes are all about the rules, policies, and procedures

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  • The Role of Safety Audits in Preventing Workplace Accidents

    • May 8, 2024
    • Posted by: David Marshall
    • Category: Business, Manufacturing, Safety
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    You should never need to perform a safety audit. Safety is a constant process that you should follow every day.

    I’m going to say something that’s going to upset some people. There should be no safety audits in a factory setting. Why is that? Because safety audits are like restaurant inspections. Everyone who has ever worked in a restaurant knows the dirty little secret: when you know a health inspector is showing up, everyone makes

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  • Your Associates Should Be Your Safety Experts, Not Your Managers

    • May 31, 2023
    • Posted by: David Marshall
    • Category: Management, Manufacturing, Safety
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    Safety training session at a factory. All the workers are wearing high-visibility vests and blue hard hats.

    Safety should be the number one priority in any manufacturing plant, but your managers should not be the ones establishing the safety rules. Your associates should be your safety experts, and they should be the ones making the rules and running the safety training program. After all, they’re the ones performing the tasks, and they’re

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  • Who Is Responsible for an Individual’s Safety?

    • May 24, 2023
    • Posted by: David Marshall
    • Category: Manufacturing, Safety
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    Photo of two men welding a piece of steel. Safety is everyone's responsibility, not just the managers'.

    When it comes to deciding who’s responsible for an individual’s safety, there’s only one right answer. EVERYONE Anyone near them. Anyone on the other side of the room or the other side of the building. Anyone who happens to be walking by. It’s no one person’s job, it’s everyone’s job. Everyone is responsible for everyone

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  • Stay Focused on Employee Health & Safety

    • June 16, 2021
    • Posted by: David Marshall
    • Category: Management, Safety
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    Factory worker wearing a welder's mask while welding some metal. Employee health and safety are of paramount importance in a manufacturing plant.

    As a manufacturing manager, the worst words you can hear are “workplace injury.” Manufacturing is not necessarily a safe job, and people can get hurt just doing their work. Even with all the employee health and safety training, policies, and personal protective equipment, people can still get hurt on the job. That creates a lot

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  • How Important is Ongoing Safety Training in a Manufacturing Operation?

    • February 10, 2021
    • Posted by: David Marshall
    • Category: Manufacturing, Safety
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    Manufacturing leadership has changed, but the principals are still the same.

    Ongoing safety training is critical in any manufacturing operation. It’s not just a one-and-done, set it and forget it type of operation. Safety training is absolutely essential because your first priority in your business is human life. You absolutely, positively have to protect that above everything else; there are no two ways about it. Protecting

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