Whether you work at heights every day or just once in a while, your safety focus during those times is of utmost importance. It takes one mistake to turn a routine work task into a fatality. Falls are debilitating. Falls are deadly. You must be prepared to protect your employees each and every time they could be exposed.

Improving workplace safety should be a top priority for most business owners. Working with and around dangerous manufacturing equipment comes with the inherent risk that workers may get injured in an accident. When accidents and injuries occur it is bad of course for the injured worker, and also the workers and the business.

Perhaps you were aware of the standard CSA Z460 as the standard for lockout / tagout application on industrial machines in general. But maybe you did not know that this standard, on the control of hazardous energy and lockout, is also applicable to your mobile equipment. This could have a significant impact on the processes that you apply on various work sites.

The manufacturing industry is expansive and encompasses everything from chemical manufacturing to food processing. As manufacturing involves many different workflows and companies, federal regulators frequently cite it as one of the most hazardous industries for employees.

On March 1, 2018, the Court of Quebec found an excavation contractor, guilty of manslaughter under the Criminal Code. In convicting the contractor, the court found that he had committed an “unlawful act” by not complying with provincial health and safety legislation. In its own way, the decision applies provincial health and safety laws in a new way in a criminal prosecution.

All employers have an obligation to ensure the workplace is safe. To make sure employees know how to stay safe on the job, employers must provide training to teach workers how to recognize potential hazards and how to use, handle, store and dispose of hazardous substances safely. Employees must also be taught how to handle emergencies on the job.

Construction sites are dangerous places. Some of the dangers, such as heavy construction equipment are obvious. But there are also hidden dangers of working in construction that, while not obvious, lead to injuries every day.

It goes without saying that industrial equipment can be dangerous when it is being used. That is why machines are designed with safety equipment and operators wear personal protective when using them.

Today, we would like to discuss the three methods of Lean-Agile that has gotten the acknowledgment of many organizational leaders as first-rate models to control your production work processes, namely kaizen, kanban and 5S.